Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-05-06
BOOTH---HIS CAPTURE.
AND DEATH,
johnston Surrender his En-.
tire Com m and.
Terrible steamboat Accident

WASHINGTON, April q.
Yesterday morning q squadron Of the
10Th N. 7. Cavalry traced Booth aud
Harold to barn between Be wiling Green
aud Port Royal near Fredericksburg.
V. A. The barn was surrounded and
demand made for surrender, which Har
roId was in favor Of doing but upon Bo. tn
calling him = coward hs refused to do 60
The barn was then set on FIRE. Upon
it getting too hot, Harold again presen.
ted himself, put bis hands through the
door to be handcutfed; while this WAS 60
ing on Booth fired upon the soldiers, up
on which the Seargent fired at him, tue
ball taking effect in the head Of Bou,b,
killing him.
Harold, taken alive, and Booths body
we're brought to the Washington Navy
Yard last n,ght. He had declared hrs in-
tention never TO surrender, aud said thu.
he would fight The whole squad, consist
ing Of twenty eight men, it they would
permit him to place himself twenty yards
distant.
- The scouting party was under the com,
mand Of Lieut.. Edward Dougherty.
Booth was on cru,ch, and was lame
He lived two hours after being shot; wits
pering blasph-mies against the Cavern.
ment, and sending q message to his moth.
er. At the time he WAS shot, it is said, he
was leaning on his crutch aud psparing
II fire on his captors.
Var Department. Washington, April
27-M"j or General Dix: "A dispatch
from General Grant, dated R.leigh, 10 A.
NJ, April 26:h states tina, johnson sur
rendered the forces in his command, EN-.
braci"g all from here to Chattahoochie;
to General Sherman, on the basis agreed
upon between Lee and himself for the
tie army Of Northern Virginia
Among the General surrendered is
Beauregard.
Among the Lieutenant Generals is
Hardee Bragg vas lately relieved from
his command, and was nos surrendered
Wade Hampton refused to be surren.
dered and is reported to have been shot
BY Johnston in The alteration. but a more
trustworthy report is that he fed in com.
pany with Davis.
The number actually surrendered Is -.
600, a'thous b many more names were
given.
A correspondent says that fr,m certain
Indications it is proba ole that Jefferson
Davis will continue bis figh, suu'hward
and ende.vor TO reach Cuba in some small
vessel or fishing boat, from some point on
the Florida coast
Rumor places heavy cum to his bank
account in Havana.
New York. April 20 -Heralds special
says-The only remaining army Of the
rebels east OF the Mississippi not surren-
dered is that Of Dick Taylor, which Also
formed a par. Of Johns,"ns command,
but rs JEFF. Davis is probably making bis
way through tina, disric. and army. john.
ston doubtless declined TO surrender it
until Davis could get beyond the Missis
sippi.
Carlo. April pa Steamboat Gala nifty
unparalleled in the history Of navigation
occurred last Thursday morning 10y the
bursting Of the boiler If the steamer Sui.
tana, eight miles above Memphis as she
was on her way from New Orleans TO this
point Twenty.tw" hundred people were
On the boat. aid 1868 of these were par
oiled soldiers on there way home from the
rebel prison At Andersonvillr, Georgia.
OF this immense cargo Of life, only 600
are known to have been saved, Blu, Of
course more will yet be found.
The accident occurred when all we're
asleep except the officers and employers
Of the boat. She had started out of Mem.
phis an hour before with only steam
enough to propel her eight miles an hour
The fret mate Of the i'll fa,ed steamer
thinks there must have been some inf-rnal
machine put in the coal AZ the boat n, the
time was running very steady, and had so
little steam on that on explosion was i'm
possible
He describes the scene after the explo-
sion A. terrible in the extreme. He was
standing on the pilot house, and was
blown into the river, where we're struggling
a living mass Of drowning humanity, some
with limbs broken, and some scalded, over
which scene the wreck, that immediate'~
took fire commenced TO throw a CHASTITY
glare. No saccor was at hand, and only
the best swimmers, aided BY fragments Of
the wreck. could expect 70 be saved.
There were fifteen women on board on.
" two Of whom are known to have been
saved.
The Chicago journal Of the l,h, pays
our noble State the following compliment
" A gentleman who arrived here this morn
ing, from Iowa, says the news Of the sur
render Of Lees ormy produced the great
est excitement in that State, and the wild
est demonstrations Of joy and rejoicing
we're INDUCED in. II there is one State
in the Union that has more RICH, than an.
other to 10 very joyful over such great
victory, i. is Iowa, which has surpassed all
her sister States in the promptoess with
which she filed all her quotas, aud the
alacrity with which she has responded to
all calls Of the Government for help to