Captain David Niles Wethern typically used his 135-foot steamboat Sea Wing to tow log ... for shipment to Red Wing. At 6:10 Monday morning, that boat arrived at the city levee.

Why would you want to write about that, the Red Wing woman said. Her attitude speaks volumes about why the historical memory of the Sea Wing disaster ... the upside-down boat and drowned.

The capsizing of the steamer Sea Wing on Lake Pepin ... There were life preservers on the boat, but few availed themselves of them. There is mourning in Red Wing as nearly all were from there.” ...