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Title
"
City
of
Madison
" on the
Dike
Subject
Steamboats
;
Riverboats
; "
City
of
Madison
";
Dikes
(Engineering)
Description
Built
in
Madison
in
1882
, the
boat
was the
second
"
City
of
Madison
" the
first
having
been
lost
in a
devastating
explosion
during
the
Civil
War
. On
June
18
,
1894
, she was
returning
from a
trip
to
Memphis
, with a
stop-over
in
Owensboro
,
Kentucky
,
where
she
picked
up
a
group
of
bikers
for
delivery
to
Cincinnati
. At
about
4:10
a.m.
,
citizens
of
Madison
were
awakened
by her
distress
whistle
.
Many
hurried
to the
river's
edge
and, as
daylight
dawned
over
the
river
, they
could
see
the
partially
sunken
"
City
of
Madison
"
lying
on the
government
dike
.
Within
minutes
of
striking
the
dike
, the
hull
filled
with
water
and she was
stranded
.
No
lives
were
lost
and a
broken
toe
seems
to have been the
only
injury
. A
misplaced
buoy
was
blamed
for the
accident
. On
June
20
,
1894
, the
Madison-Courier
headlines
read
, "
All
Hope
of
Saving
the
City
of
Madison
Abandoned.
" The
order
was
given
to
wreck
her, and she was
torn
to
pieces
. An
interesting
relic
was
taken
from the
boat
before
her
destruction
.
It
was a
picture
of the
signatures
of those
who
had
donated
a
silk
banner
which
had
floated
from her
flagstaff
.
Many
of the
city's
prominent
people
of the
day
were
featured
on the
keepsake
.
Some
of those
same
people
probably
watched
from the
levee
as she was
taken
apart
.
Creator
Unknown
Contributors
Madison-Jefferson County Public Library; Jefferson County Historical Society
Date
Photograph taken 1894
Type
Photograph
Format
Original: tif, scanned at 1200dpi with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online: jpg, saved at 72dpi.
Identifier
"MJCPLriver5044-tsrmadisonsunk"
Source
Madison Courier-June 19 and June and July 10, 1894
Rights
Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main St., Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744.;
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