A 51 -year-old man died after the johnboat he was driving collided with a tug and barge and rolled over in the Missouri River near St. Charles County, Mo. The Oct. 23, 2013, accident claimed the life of Rodney Allen "Rocky" Stumo of Rolla, Mo. Stumo was operating a johnboat with a cabin on it as part of the construction crew working on a railroad bridge upriver from the Lewis Bridge that carries U.S. Route 67 over the river. Stumo was piloting the johnboat perpendicular to the flow of the river from the bridge trestle pier back to the shore. The tow-boat Jennie Dehmer was pushing two barges, the first of which was a rake barge, according to Lt. Colin Fogarty, public affairs officer for Sector Upper Mississippi River for the U.S. Coast Guard. The 2,250-hp Jennie Dehmer, owned by Magnolia Marine Transport of Vicksburg, Miss., was bound for Kansas City.
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