River News-Winneconne,Minneapolis,John M. Chambers,etc.1876

WINNECONNE, GRANGERS, MINNEAPOLIS, JOHN M CHAMBERS, RESCUE, DAN HINDS, FRIENDSHIP, DICTATOR, WOOD, HATCHER, LABARGE, HALL, CUBBERLY, CLINTON

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 8/5/2019 at 11:02:32

Dubuque Daily Times, Sunday, Apr 23, 1876, Dubuque, IA, Page: 4

RIVER NEWS

The Winneconne took on her supply of fuel and other things yesterday, preparatory for her
departing for her new stamping grounds, or rather ferrying waters at Keithsburg. She will at time ply as a packet between Keithsburg and neighboring points.

The water has fallen one half inch in the past 24 hours, at St. Louis yesterday the river was but five and one-half inches lower than it was July, 1875. The St. Louis Globe Democrat says: Business with southern boats dull. Up river boats have all they can do – full cargos up and down. The Keokuk Northern Line Company sent out today the Minneapolis, Capt. Jerry Wood, Clerk N. Pole Hatcher, for St. Paul at 4 p.m. On Saturday where will be two Grangers out for Dubuque-the well-known new steamer, John M. Chambers, Capt. LaBarge, and the old reliable Colossal, Capt. Mose Hall, Larry Cubberly, Clerk – both leaving at 4 p.m. The Clinton arrived yesterday p.m. at 5 o’clock, and from a view of her larboard side, you would judge that running against the Hannibal Bridge was no joke. Her guards, wheel house and wheel shafting plumbing blocks, and, in fact, everything to her hull, were taken off clean for about 80 feet. The Dan Hinds towed her below the Louisiana Bridge, from there to the stockyards. She came down on one wheel. The tug Rescue then brought her to her berth at the K. N. Line wharf boat. It was not known when we left the levee whether she would have to go on the docks or not, as her hull but was very slightly damaged. It was certainly a narrow escape from being totally wrecked.

It was a remarkable coincidence in the loss of the Dictator, that the Dictator and Friendship were built on the Wisconsin River in 1865, at Boscobel, launched the same day, and brought down the river and into the towing business. They were engaged in towing principally on the upper Mississippi River. On the 17th of April, 1874 the Friendship collided with the bridge at Hannibal, capsized, and was totally lost. Two years to a day, after, the Dictator was lost in the same way and at the same place.