'Ike Bonham built Mason City, West Va, 1878, operated as a Packet in the Vicksburg Miss-Davis Bend, Big Black, Sunflower, and Yazoo River trades- Exploded, Bedfords Point (below Vicksburg)- March 13, 1886- "Watchman William St Andrews, and five roustabouts were killed- Capt McElroy, Master, engineer, Girard, fireman Jim Alexander and others were scalded and injured. The Str 'L. D. Sargeant' brought the injured to Vicksburg- The wreck drifted on a sandbar and sank in shallow water- The vessel was raised, rebuilt, appearance changed, and ran as an excursion boat, New Orleans to Grand Isle, La.
