The steamboat Montgomery, bound from Tuscaloosa to Mobile in Alabama on the Black Warrior River with a load of cotton, had a cookhouse fire spread quickly to the entire vessel killing several passengers. The vessel made the riverbank and the remainder of those aboard escaped but the boat and its cargo were completely destroyed. Losses were estimated at $88,000. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
House of Representatives, Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Finances for the Year 1868 (Washington, DC; Government Printing Office, 1868), 323.
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