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Boiler exploded
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Boiler explosion.
Steamboat boilers
SS Ada Hancock, a small steamboat used to transfer passengers and cargo to and from the large coastal steamships that stopped in San Pedro Harbor in the early 1860s, suffered disaster when its boiler exploded violently in San Pedro Bay, the port of Los Angeles, near Wilmington, California, on 27 April 1863, killing twenty-six people and injuring many others of the fifty-three or more passengers on board.