1098 City of Madison SW p wh b. Madison, Ind., 1882. 265 x 42.1 x 6.3. Engines, 24 '/2 's- 7 ft. Four boilers, each 42 " by 28 ft. Paddlewheels 28 ft. dia., with 14 ft. buckets. Owned by the U.S. Mail Line Co, Dan H. Morton and D.C. Robinson were running the Madison yard at the time. The engines came from the shop of Stribling & Walsh, Madison. Boilers built at Portsmouth , Oh. Ran Cincinnati-Madison, and replaced the UNITED STATES in the L&C trade, 1884. Her ending was singular;she was returning from Memphis with a special club of bicyclists on board, headed straight through to Cincinnati. Pilot watches were changed just below the shipyard at Madison and a few moments later, at 4:15 A.M.,June 18,1894, she hit the dike and was wrecked. The pilot on watch, Wheeler Collier, was a Madison resident. All of which bears out a pilot's tradition that the spot most dangerous for a pilot is right in front of his own home town. Nobody was hurt, and the cyclists were forwarded on the next boat. The snagboat E. A. WOODRUFF removed the wreck. The dike she hit was a large one, jutting out from the Kentucky shore almost to mid-river, and perhaps a quarter-mile long.