We took 2 more barges in tow at the reck of the packet Denmark which snaged & sunk, I believe yesterday 2 weeks. both barges ware loaded with the machinery & things from the Denmark. while we lay at the wreck a man from Co E walked off one of the barges & fortunately came up and swam & got hold of the wheel of the Packet at stearn & got on board. 8½ Oc at night arrived at St Louis
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 96
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