August 14, 1837 – The steamboat Dubuque explodes – just south of Bloomington (Muscatine) – taking twenty-two lives. The most appalling steamboat explosion on the Upper Mississippi.
A Day-by-Day Calendar of Historical Events In Iowa, William J. Petersen, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1946, p 79
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