This steamer was first named the Lora, then the Alice Stafford. She was renamed the Manistee and was being retrofitted at Johnston Brothers' dock in Ferrysburg when she burned on Spring Lake early on the morning of June 24, 1914. No cause for the blaze was found. The loss was nearly $200,000 and two of the crew were injured. The Manistee broke away from the dock as she burned and drifted to a sandbar near the Savidge Landing, where she sank.
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