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The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of a blockade Running steamer. (search)
Some thirteen of the crew had escaped in a boat, which was stove on reaching shore, and was therefore unable to return and bring others off. Before the Yankees left they fired the steamer. It would seem that when they first boarded her, Mr Thos K Dyer, the pilot, and the cook concealed themselves and thus escaped capture. After the Yankees had fired the steamer and left her, two men were observed on board. They were hailed by some on shore and told to put out the fire, which they did. A br and left her, two men were observed on board. They were hailed by some on shore and told to put out the fire, which they did. A boat having been procured from Fort Caswell, the steamer was boarded by a party, probably of the Coast Guards, commanded by Capt Galloway. Mr Dyer, the pilot, was found lying insensible, with three gashes in his head. He died in twenty minutes after being found. The cook's statement is that the Yankees beat them both and robbed them. The cook has been arrested.