Sunday, February 9, 2014

Washington, May 19 [1862].

The gunboat Jacob Bell, lying at the navy yard, which was discovered on fire at an early hour this morning, but the flames were soon suppressed.  She was loaded with stores.  Some of the box shells were considerably charred, hence the vessel barely escaped being blown up.  The origin of the fire was not known.
                                
Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 21, 1862, p. 1

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