Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Whole Fleet Sunk. [ARTICLE]

Whole Fleet Sunk.

W. H. Bowers, who is employed on a dredge over in Illinois, writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Valley City to Rockport, 111., and says: “As we are steamboating around the Mississippi and my next Location will be at Rockport. We are having a glorious time; the waves are bobbing our boat four' feet high in places.” Further on in the letter he says: “Well, things have taken on a different aspect. We -have sunk our v.hole fleet, four barges, two launches and a cabin boat, but not quite as bad as the Titanic, as no lives J are lost, so change address to Rockport, Ill.”