Steamer Helen Vaughan Burned on Bayou D'Arbonne, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2004


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Steamer Helen Vaughan Burned on Bayou D'Arbonne, Union Parish Louisiana
Farmerville "Gazette", issue of Wednesday, 20 March 1895, page 3
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Information reached town Monday that the Monroe and Shiloh steamer, Helen Vaughan, 
was burned in Bayou D'Arbonne Sunday near White's ferry Sunday about 11 o'clock a.m.
not only was the boat but its cargo of 450 bales of cotton, belonging to the merchants 
of this place and Shiloh were destroyed by the flames. The origin of the fire is 
unknown, but it is supposed the cotton caught fire from sparks from the smoke stacks 
of the boat. The steamer was a new one being built several years ago by Capt. H. W. 
Vaughan at Monroe and was purchased last year by Capt. H. M. Williams. The 
destruction of this steamer will be a great loss to the bayou trade. We are not informed 
whether there was any insurance on the boat.



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