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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. ....
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. ....
For eight days, Heerman and his crew scoured the river. Logs were removed from cornfields, islands, thickets, creeks and wherever else wind and waves had pushed them. Some were sailing down the river and had to be pursued in skiffs. ....
Around Burlington: Lumbermen s failed attempt to take over steamboat spurred ongoing retaliation Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye Grab the welcome mat and burn it. Pull shut the window shutters, turn out the lights and whatever you do, don’t answer the doorbell. That could have been the householder’s mantra in the mid-19th century when Burlington played springtime host to the boisterous bands of north wood lumbermen determined to shake six months of winter isolation from their unkempt bodies and raise a little hell in the process. If the truth be known, the loggers who harvested the Wisconsin and Minnesota woodlands and then floated the great masses of logs downriver to lumber towns, such as Burlington, were a good deal more than simply “boisterous.” ....