New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-15
LATER INTELLIGENCE FROM GALVESTON.
A Moro Favorable Account Of the Late Disaster
REBEL TREiCHEgY UNDER A FLAG OF TRUCE
OUR toss ESTIMATED AT i25.
Only Three or Four of the AID Massachusetts
Regiment Killed.
From tn. Bos,on Eyening Trar.,ier. Jan. H.

F,o. TIE Bos,on Evsning Trar.uey. Jan. H.
The following letter contains later information
from Galveston thar the reports to the press in re-
card to the late disaster at ,ha: place. II is from
Union officer attached to a vessel stationed at the
mouth of the Mississippi River, and we hasten to
lay il before our readers in the hope that may tend
70 relieve the fears of those who have friends and
relatives 10 the companies Of the i2d Massachusetts
taken prisoners at the close of the struggles
Jan. 3d.-Tbis morning steamer arrived from
Galveston, bringing mos. unhappy tidinssi two
Others have followed her, one Of them leaving with
Us OH offer who was engaged m tn battle, ana
from whom have obtained a truthful account OF tle
disaster.
The first steamer. the Mary Boardman, brought a
selegraphic dispatch from army officer TO Gen.
Banks TO the elect that early on the morning OF the
lstJauuary four Rebel rams attacked our Meet, cap
turing the Harriet Lane, blowing up The WeStheld
and killing nearly all her crew, beside the great
probability that all the remaining vessels hsu iae
as well a. the entire body OF troops there stationed
The second steamer varied somewhat III her stlte
ment giving "a rather more favorable account. Ihl'
last one brought the officer from whom obtain the
following:
The gunboats Harriet Lane, Owasco, Clifton,
Westfeld. aud two coal boats were lying inside the
bar and near the city. TIE Westfe d was aground
two miles from Galveston, having stuck there III,
night before. About / o'clock on the morning
OF the lst signals were seen shore and the tav
Shortly after two Rebel boats were seen an oroach
ing; they were soon followed by third, and event
ually numbered five. About q. M. ar illery from
the ehore opened on our baats, which fire
turned Muskess and rifles were discharged from
every available corner aud bu ding.
The Rebel vessels now approached; they were de-
Tended with cotton bales, AID contained over one
hundred men each; they came alongside the Ill erie,
Lane and with assistance from tao shore, carried
her bv bosrding--eleven men only OF her crew co
cared deah.
The Westfsld was blown up by order Of Capt
Renshaw, senior Captain. He sent oil nearly oil BIZ
crew 10 one Of the other boats. When she blew ny
Capt Renshaw, the Executive O1cer, Engineer
and thirteen men were board. At one tine ih'
Rebsl, pe,iticred for flag Of truce, which beins
granted they came down on the wharf, where some
two or three hundred of our troors were stationed
and captured them, which they could not have don'
had not their :ruce been granted.
The other vessels, with the exception OF the tw'
coal bOa's, escaped. Our loss Is estimated at no
over l25 that OF the Rebels could not have been les
than 500, and ia probably higher. portion OF TIT
42d Massachusetts, Regiment ia lore whose Colonel
Burril met few Gays ago. Net over three o
four soldiers were Killed.
1t is cad news, but not nearly as bad as our mrs
report, which is the one YOU viii probably read j
the papers ut tho time this reaches you. Tbs pres
emit Information will most Likely be several days II
sdvanc, OF that to the press the first report ia tn
only one which can reach New Orleans 10 time L
leave in to.night's mat steamer. forgot TO 50.
that Capt Wainwright 10 also killed.