What happened to the Robert E. Lee?

After posting about the Admiral the last time, and as an after thought, the Robert E. Lee, I
decided I had to know what happened to the Lee.
The Lt. Robert E. Lee was built in the late 1960's using an old U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat. She came from Greenville to the St. Louis waterfront in Feb. 1970 and opened as a
restaurant two months later.
Although she never was a real boat, she was Fred Leyhe's dream of a perfect steamboat. Fred was the son of Capt. Buck Leyhe, who was one of the owners of the famous Packet Co. who ran many famous steamboats on waterways all around the country.
The Lt. Robert E. Lee was (naturally) named for the confederate general who served with the Army Corps of Engineers in St. Louis (1837-1841). The Lee had a hard time making it as a restaurant and was sold to the President Casinos and was severly damaged in the Great Flood of 1993.
In 1997, 4 local businessmen bought her and renovated her. All of the wooden structure was replaced by steel and a new paddlewheel was added. She reopened as a restaurant called Mesquite Charlie's Steaks on the Lt. Robert E. Lee (that name alone would have been enough to sink her) on Oct. 10, 2001. The restaurant closed on Jan. 2002, after the economic downturn following 9/11.
In 2004 she was moved to Kimmswick, MO, where she operated as a floating restaurant until being closed again. In 2008, the Lt. Robert E. Lee was auctioned and supposed to start a new life at St. Charles, MO. She caught fire and burnt on March 21. 2010 at St. Louis.
We had heard that the Lee was in Kimmswick, MO and one day drove there. We wanted to
check out the boat, but we also wanted to eat at the famous Blue Owl Restaurant. It was
closed the day we went there, but we did board the Robert E. Lee, but didn't eat on it and
neither of us can remember why. I did, however, get a nice cookbook from the Blue Owl.