The Delaware River steamship’s boilers exploded on her trial run on March 6, 1860, killing several passengers.
The explosion of the steamboat Alfred Thomas on the Delaware River is commemorated in the inset print, and in a March 6, 1923, headline in The Easton Express 63 years after the disaster.
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