The steamboat BUCKEYE BELLE with about 40 passengers on board was torn apart in a spectacular boiler explosion on November 12 ...

To attract customers and win bragging rights, steamboat companies allowed their vessels to race other steamers, a dangerous stunt that could overwork boilers, setting off explosions and fires.

Steamboats played a crucial role in the growth of Cape Girardeau in the 19th Century, but traveling by steamboat was a risky proposition indeed. Boiler explosions, collisions, fires, sandbars and ...

An all-caps headline to describe the boiler explosion aboard the Shirley Bell in Sept. 1878. Photo from the Warren Ledger “The town was thrown into a great excitement.” Yes, I assume a ship sinking in ...

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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS” A school district in this mountain region is taking a giant step toward renewable energy with a new heating system that relies on wood pellets for fuel. The South Routt School ...

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