According to this article, the steamboat S.S. City of Grand Forks was sent to rescue folks around Pembina/St. Vincent, while another steamboat from Winnipeg, the S.S. Assiniboine, was sent down to help the citizens of Emerson (as seen here in this photograph...) It's quite a site to see a steamboat coming down the main street of a town! I'm surprised my grandparents never mentioned this, since they were around then. Another reminder of how much of the past we will never know...
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