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"Big Hatchie" Steamboat Disaster

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Early pioneers perished in the explosion of the steamboat "Big Hatchie" at the wharf at Hermann in 1842. Thirty-five of the dead lie buried here in unmarked graves, and many other bodies were never recovered from the waters of the Missouri River.
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Hermann, Missouri · United States
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