Disasters

Fires

• Fire at Hannibal

• Destructive Fire in Hannibal

• Fatal Fire in Hannibal

Accidents

• Sinking of Flying Eagle  

• Two Children Drowned

• Fatal Boiler Explosion

• Lost with a Wrecked River Streamer

• 15 Hurt in Train Wreck

• Train Derailment

Floods

• Raising the Levees

• Ruin Along the Valley

Storms

• A Great Storm in Missouri

Epidemics/Diseases

• Cholera of 1833

Other

• A Terrific Landslide

• Flood of 73 got started 20 years ago today page (3/24/93)

• Hannibal has an abundant history of damaging floods (4/8/93)