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Around Burlington: Passengers scooped from banks as the Charlie Roger raced to Keokuk


Around Burlington: Passengers scooped from banks as the Charlie Roger raced to Keokuk
Bob Hansen
for The Hawk Eye
The 1850s saw the high water mark for steam boating on the Upper Mississippi. It was a time of intense river activity with ornate floating palaces and humble freight carriers tying the river communities to the commerce and society of the settled east.
In April 1855, 230 boats called at the Burlington levee. But that year also saw railroads push through to East Burlington and begin to erode the steam boater’s profitable freight and passenger business.
The river barrier slowed the railroad s push west for approximately eight years and for that period, steamboat traffic turned to Iowa’s inland rivers. The Iowa, Cedar, Des Moines and even the Skunk carried steamboats into Iowa’s heartland. ....

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Around Burlington: Man faced vigilante mob, mad wife after a night with 'bad whiskey'


Around Burlington: Man faced vigilante mob, mad wife after a night with bad whiskey
Bob Hansen
for The Hawk Eye
Charlie Wetzel was having a bad day. In fact, Charlie was having just about as bad a day as could be imagined.
He had consumed perhaps a few more alcoholic beverages than was wise, he tore his trousers, angered his wife, and he was now standing in front of a Prospect Hill home while one of Burlington’s better known physicians shot at him with a horse pistol.
Wetzel’s afternoon slide into disaster began that November afternoon in 1889 when he joined a few friends at a “doggery” bar in the Cascade Avenue area. There he was having a few whiskeys and discussing the meaning of life when his wife arrived at the bar. ....

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