Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-03-25
STEAMBOAT INTELLIGENCE.
LATEST = NEWS.
GLASGOW, March 18th, 1913.


Messrs. Benson g. GREEN:-Agreeably
to your request, hasten to inform you of
the perIous condition of the Steamboat
Giles. After being out about eight hours,
she arrived here late on Tuesday evening
and rounded to at the Pavilion" She has
been DESTROYS of establishing herself as an
accommodating packet between our towns;
but having heard we were about to en-.
courage packet on our own hook, she
FASTENED 10 this port and declared herself
ready 10 serve US on such terms as we
might prescribe. Our citizens not being
disposed TO disregard her offer entirely.
appointed committee to examine her con-
dition and if she was considered scaworthy,
she might enter Immediately upon the
trade, on condition that she would make
this her head quarters. But unfortunately
for the Giles, she wishing TO make dis
play of her capacity TO perform her trips
regularly and well, she rounded out early
the next morning and steered for the Hur-
ricane TO take in wood, but installing the
channel, she run foul Of Zimmerman's Bar
50 noted for the many wrecks it has caused,
and stuck tight there until 4 o'clock the
next morning when she was hauled off
and towcd up to the Pavilion" by some Of
her friends, having parted her tiller rope,
broke her rudder and consumed all her
fuel. While lying to, in this condition, the
a. al
they turned their attention to, was her GER
tiicates of ownership; they found she was
built in Virginia; she had sailed in various
trades, and in some under the patronage
of the General Government-had sustained
heavy damages and necessarily undergone
great many repairs. On going into her
hull they found her timbers fractured in
many places and her bottom giving way;
in fact her whole internal organization in
a state of decay; they next proceeded to
inspect the boilers, which were found very
unsound and unsafe, being burnt almost to
shell: they learned from the engineer that
the first season she run she had coun-
terfeit patent safety ualuc, run well, and
was greatly patronized, but in the height
Of her glory burst one of her boilers and
scalded very badly one Of her passengers,
who had relied wholly upon her patent
safety; fearing she would have TO pay heavy
damages she left that trade, rehtted and
sailed west as far as Kentucky, and there
received encouragement to embark in that
trade, but had not run there long before
she had to slope, Uhe reason we do not
find recorded in her register) but presume
the facts could be ascertained. The next
place she was found running was up the
Missouri. Since her introduction into our
waters she has met with many catastro-
phes-she at one time became almost a
perfect wreck on the coast of Boonville,
but her owners not willing to give her up,
she was partially refilted and white washed
over and placed in your trade under the
patronage of public officers, where she has
been running for eight or ten months, part
of the time in very reckless condition
After reviewing her former voyages and
her present abandoned condition, the com
mittee came to the conclusion to have moth
ing to do with her: upon this being an.
nounced she left the wharf, intending &c
run down, take in wood, and leave fol
your place, but unfortunately could mo-
govern herself, having lost her ruddcr the
previous evening, In few minutes she
run foul of The same destructive bar, where
she is still sticking, and am fearful unles.
some of her friends from your place come
10 her assistance she will in a short time
become an abandoned wreck.
Yours, O.