That's a pretty typical example of a Lake Freighter configuration. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the same type. Basically they're bulk carriers--grain, iron ore, gravel, whatever.
I was referring to the Aurora's "squatting" attitude -- bow waterline 'way up out of the water and the stern waterline nearly flush with it. For her to have floated level like the Fitzgerald, she must have been laden "weight forward".
Until I read she was "dragged" to her final position, I had envisioned her being run aground under power. Had she been empty, the bow would have been "high and dry" -- and would have burned clean to the ground
However, your account of her "dragged aground" demise (as a barge) simply means, "WYSIWYG": the bow would have to be excavated to determine its state...