, 1864-06-05
FROM PORT ROYAL.
Loss OF the Steamer Boston.

correspondent Of the New York 11aes fur
nishes the following account Of the losa Of thu
steamer Boston, already alluded to in dispatch:
Cspt F. N. Faireloih, Ct tho boston, had special
attempting to do 50 his vessel aground at high
aeove tne mouth q Mosquito Greet. This oecn5;
puEsued her course up the river for distance OF
Two miles be5ond the grounded steamer, and it
oesaaettons S @ tbst she % vas taracd bast 'A''
On board The Boston were abont three hundred
men. tncnding thc of.ec5s and crew Of tie veesel.
return from up the river, discovered. the Boston
81 70 70 parpeee; The Boston dlsv eIght iest
Ing from the bow to tho foremost became n1m,J
nIed ia the EAnd. In this condition ahe remain
g Ss sa s snspo R fo oozea aoen
nnce 81 The grounded steamer: The tide vas now
Eoston proved 3utile. Az soon as daylight broke,
It WAS discovered she lay within 1,on yards o.
Rs es = seS51 % hs &:
htr cloee proximity to the battery was made mosc
apparent BY the fight and whiz Of a e-po7nder
bg or essy ohere 81
the eAots fred, eeventy took effect the steamer.
The second shot penetrated the boiler but the fore
haaS to open he steam vsi1e. and thus M prevent
casualties BY scalding. Gen. Bi1ney. who BY this
time had arrived at the scene, Oh board the trans
saKcn to % save lie lives ot the men. coneeQaonuy,
the Boston's bosts we1e lowered and engaged IN
transferring the soldiers and the crew to
ssrs sss osea i e .p 9'%ssF into hs q tas
until Tie smal boats took them Of. Ali ofthe SOL
in9 10 the Thirty fourth Re1mcut Colored troops
Col Montgomery aud thirteen Of them, unable TO
swim @ unable 10 gain solid foundation in TIE
Boston. JOIN Essft E ssnaa a and John Ra5s,
carpenter, were lost. Numerous other lives would
heTs been Iost, bad not kneign VIM. Nelson, form
e6 81 ad 1 ,sa to
deck, a1d thrown overheard spaTs, boxcs, 1opee,
| and everything be could Iay hands on that would
When neariy Ill had LII, Col: Montgomery went
ieinw aud tred rome bales Of hay for the purpose
Of de;t5o5tnE the stssmer but the hay being soak
| ed With water, won1d not bum. All this WIS nc.
coc1plislea under the epemy&s Arc. An hour later
/ - b. m-Col. Montgomery and Capt FaltcIoth re-
| tufLed to the Boston IN tnal boat. having first
provided th:nselyea With e9nhnsable material
ccedcd In thoroughly firing the steamer. In tho
lneculme. the Dai Ching took flvurablc position,
and sheiled the Iebsl bastory 80 vigorously, hat
only casualty on cur eide hy the cncmy,a 1rc VIE
one man killed while swimming toward the shore.
| OF the niuety-one horses on board the boston,
Capt. Faircloth estiuates TINT about one-haf wc7e
k1ied ~ .he encmy.'s shot: the. remaindeI wefe
| burned alive. Tho Last man to leaVe the Boston
WAS Capt Faircloth- He vas Immediately pru-
Is Col s;9b h7s c
The Boston Vas built in 1850 by Bell s Brown, O
| New York. Her machinery was put in b. T. F.
sceof Co., ofthe same CITY, She was first cla:s
eide wheel stca1ncr, And was formerly run On tht
| route between Boston and POULAND, subsequently
sho ran between New York and philadelphia, ant
at the time the war broke ont she was the frs
resecs employed to transport troops-hayin. t2ke1
1 NcN York rtr{mcDt to AuDAUOifE.