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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reports of the Yankee Secretaries. (search)
ctive Windstorm. --House Destroyed and Five Persons Injured.--About 12 o'clock yesterday the large two-story frame building, forty by one hundred and sixty feet, then being completed at Camp Winder for the C. S. Government, by Messrs. Green & Allen, was blown down and completely demolished by a heavy flaw of wind. The building was designed for the use of the matrons and surgeons at that camp, and was being hurried to completion by the contractors, who had a large number of hands employed iscaping all harm. Mr. Wm. Yateman, the foreman, received a severe cut on his head and painful injuries to his legs. Mat, slave to Dr. Chas, Rains, of Farmville, had his skull fractured; Monroe, slave to the same gentleman, had his legs injured; Douglass, slave to Mr. James Epps, was badly cut in the face; and two servants, owned by Dr. Layne, were severely bruised and crushed. Messrs. Green & Allen's loss by this disaster is heavy, but they are not the men to give back for misfortunes.
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Officers captured. (search)
Dangerous negro. --A slave who calls himself John Thompson, and who formerly belonged to the estate of the late Nicholas Mills, was arrested on Sunday last, for breaking into Mr. Allen's house and stealing sundry articles of value. When captured officer Moore found that John had in his possession a covered wagon and mule team, with which he traded — that he had a passport to visit Hanover county — and that he also had an order to our pickets to arrest and return a negro woman and her children, runaways from Mr. William Robinson, and who, it is now generally believed, was spirited away by John. The impression is general with the police that John has been engaged, for months past, in spiriting away slaves, against the consent of their masters, and he will be held in custody till other witnesses can be secured to testify against hi