Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-24
THE Il RIVER

The steamer Black Hills will leave for
Pierre this evening.
Springfield Times: The Black Hills
stopped at our levee on Tuesday, on her
way to Yankton, and took on large amount
of wheat for H. E. Bonesteel.
Niobrara Pioneer: The Missouri is quite
low now. and the steamers find il some.
what difficult to find the channel, especially
coming up the shoot opposite the Niobrara
landing.
A mscktnaw arrived yesterday direct
from Fl. Benton, bringing party Of q doz
en- men. who have spent the last ten years
in Montana, and are now on their way to
Ohio The boat pulled out for below after
brief halt at the ways. She made the
trip from Benton to Yankton in twenty
days.
The steamer Silver Lake, VIM Reed, mas.
ter, and S. V. Clevenger, clerk, arrived yes
terday noon from Cheyenne agency, bring
ing seventy-three passengers, mostly from
Pierre. She left Cheyenne agency on the
10th, and met the c. f. Peck yesterday
morning on bar near Springfield. The
Silver Lake left for St Helena at one o o'clock
yesterday, took on some -four and returned.
She will leave here tomorrow for Chey-
enne agency.
St. Louis Times, Sept. goth: The "Grand
Republic" the largest and finest river
steamboat in the world, was destroyed by
fire last night when lying for repairs at the
foot of Lesperance street. When the alarm
for the fire department was sounded at 11:45,
the sky in the southern part of the city was
red with reflection from the fire and large
volume of smoke rolled up from the burning
boat. A few minutes after the alarm struck
several engines were rattling along to the
scene of the fire, and the streets in the
vicinity of the fire were fast filling with
people. When the Times man reached the
foot Of Lesperance ST., about fifteen minutes
after the fre-alarm, the whole levee-front
was thronged with people, men, women and
children, many of them but half dressed,
and not few of them in their night-clothes.
Nothing but the skeleton-work of the upper
portion of the finest boat on the Mississippi
river was left, and that was being rapidly
eaten up by the devouring flames. "The
Carondelet" an iron.hulled stern-wheeler
running between Mempnls anu new OlAeaue
and lying alongside the Grand Republic, /"
awaiting repairs, wa, also ablaze upon the
reporters arrival, but the upper portion Of
the boat soon burned away, leaving the iron
hull in apparently an uninjured condition.
The hull of the "Carondelet" was consi-
derably injured, but can probably be used
again. The "Grand Republic" is said to
been worth something over 100000, and
was insured for $4,000. Captain Thorwe-
gan was the sole owner of the boat. He
spent large sum of money
in re6tting the boat, when it, name
was changed, year and half ago, and dur
ing the ten weeks that it has been lying at
the foot Of Lesperance-street he spent an ad-
ditional SIC, 900 on repairs. The "Caronde-
let" was owned by several parties, the prin.
cipal owner being Captain Hicks, and was
valued at twenty thousand dollars.
The hull of the Grand Republic was $50
feet in length, 1O1 feet in width, beam SO
feet inches, floor 81 fett inches, hull 10!
feet deep in the clear. She had capacity
for 5000 tons of cargo and storage for Is, ,000
bales of cotton. She accommodated 400
saloon passengers and 500 deck passengers.
Her draft of water was very light, drawing
but thirty-three inches forward and four
feet two inches aft.