Side-wheel packet A. C. Donnally at loading dock. This steamer ran Cincinnati to New Orleans before it burned on the Missouri shore just south of Cairo in February 1879.
The Arethusa was built in 1894 at Gasconade, Missouri by the U. S. Engineer Boat Yard. Her dimensions were: - 91 x 18 x 4 feet; 45 tons. She was a small stern wheel tender for towing on the Missouri River. Captain W. L. Heckman, Jr., was her master.
Adam Jacobs (built 1885 in Brownsville, Pa.) at port. Vessel had electric lights and an arc searchlight (seen at far right), one of the first see in the region.