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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Extraordinary Torpedo Doings. (search)
Extraordinary Torpedo Doings.
--We learn from a well-informed correspondent that on Friday last the Yankees at Newbern sent out to Batchelor's creek four large torpedoes, to be "planted in the Neuse at Spring Garden, ten miles from Newbern, to guard against any rebel gunboats likely to be sent down upon them.
At this point tNewbern, to guard against any rebel gunboats likely to be sent down upon them.
At this point they were removed from the cars to the commissary building.
Three of them had been safely deposited, but the fourth, on entering the building, was struck so violently that the machine exploded.
The explosion "set off" the building and its contents at a rapid rate through the air.
One hundred men, including twenty negroes, wer