The steamboat Isaac Newton left the Cortlandt Street dock in New York City at six p.m., bound for Albany with around a hundred passengers aboard. Soon after, she exploded a boiler and the entire vessel took fire. Passing vessels took off most of the passengers but half a dozen crewmen were killed outright and around fifteen other passengers and crew badly scalded or burned. A total of twelve people eventually died. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"The Burning of the Isaac Newton, " New York Times, December 7, 1863, p.1.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Crime/Disasters
