A locomotive, along with its baggage car and one passenger car were backing across the Hudson River railroad drawbridge to the main Troy, New York station from its depot in preparation for a journey.  A misunderstanding of signals saw the train run through the open drawbridge and plunge into the river and sustain very heavy damage.  Since the train was empty but for its crew, who all escaped, no serious injuries were reported.  (By John Osborne) 

Well-known and popular poet Hannah Flagg Gould died at her home in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  She had lost her mother at an early age and spent much of her life caring for her Revolutionary War veteran father.  She published her first volume of poems in 1841 and followed with many well-regarded pieces, largely demonstrating religious and patriotic feelings.  (By John Osborne)

For a purse of two thousand dollars and the title of national champion, the Ward brothers of Newburgh, New York raced the Biglin brothers of New York City over a five mile course on the Hudson River opposite the village of Sing Sing.  Raced between one and three in the afternoon, the contest, up-river for two and a half miles and then down, was a close one but resulted in the Newburgh boat winning by forty-five seconds.  (By John Osborne)

A special train of sixteen cars was making its way on the Eastern Railroad, heading for Augusta, Maine with the entire homeward bound Fourteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment of seven hundred troops aboard.  In Cedar Swamp, it encountered a raging forest fire, with flames on either side, reportedly reaching forty feet into the air.  The oil on the locomotive wheels caught fire but the train accelerated through the woods to safety.  No injuries were reported.  (By John Osborne)  

Thomas Wildey was born in London in 1782 and came to the United States in 1817 and two years later founded the country's first Odd Fellows lodge. He died in Baltimore in October 1861.  The cornerstone for a fifty-two foot monument was laid down on April 26,1865 and the completed Doric column, on North Broadway in Baltimore, was dedicated with great ceremony to the "Founder and Father of  American Odd-Fellowship."  (By John Osborne)  

The 181 ton sternwheeler steam tugboat George Albree took fire at its dock on the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh and the fire quickly spread to the hull of the 250 foot River Queen which was nearing the completion of its fitting out after its construction in Warren, Pennsylvania. A third vessel, the steamboat Julia No. 2 was also slightly damaged in the conflagration.  No serious injuries were reported, however.  (By John Osborne) 

After several nights of crowds gathering on the streets in reaction to sensational rumours of the haunting of St. Boniface's Church in the city, concerned citizens gathered at police headquarters in Jersey City for both information and protection for their property from mobs.  Days later, the screams at the base of the rumors at the church were discovered to be from a starving stray dog trapped in an area of the basement walls.  (By John Osborne)