Narrow Escape of General Butler.
A Washington dispatch of November 28th, sa yg .— « As the steamer Webster was coming down the James River yesterday, when near Hog Island, she discovered that the steamer Greyhound, General Butler's dispatch boat, was'making signals of distress. On nearing the Greyhound she was on fire. Generals Butler and Schenck and Admiral Porter were on board the Greyhound , but the steamer Pioneer came up and took them off. They were afterwards transferred to the tv? Columbus and conveyed to Portress Monroe. The Webster took off the crew and passengers. The Greyhound had been up to City Point and was on her return when the accident took place. General Butler and his friends were at dinner at the time. Suddenly the furnace doors blew open and scattered the coals all over the floor, driving the firemen and engineers from their rooms. The Greyhound was almost immediately enveloped in flames, not withstanding every effort tp save her, she was burned to the waters edge. Ten horses belonging to Gen. Butler and staff were burned to death. Shortly before the accident the Greyhound had received from the steamer Cossack the arm}' mail for General Butler's , department, which left Washington yesterday morning, it is supposed to be lost."
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Evening Post, Issue 28, 11 March 1865, Page 3
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208Narrow Escape of General Butler. Evening Post, Issue 28, 11 March 1865, Page 3
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