The Cincinnati Sunk
piiicago, June 2. A special, Memphis lst, says the Luminary arrived Saturday night from below with news to the 28tb uit. Sbe reporta the gunboat Ciueinnati sunk by five of the Vicksburg battqiies on the 26th, with a roported loss of'twenty killed and woundod. Several of our men vrero eaptured by the rebels and. have beea paroled. Cairo, June 2. The dispatch boat Vicksburg confirins the siukinjj of the gunboat Öineinnati, by shot from rebel batteries. She was ordered to move down the river, and when turning the Point, was opened on by several batterij from a,bove, whieh was supposed had been silenc.ed. She mauaged to return to a point just above the upper batteries, vvhere she sank in fifteen fegt of water. Fifteen to forty are reportad killed, drowned and woundéd. Tho' armament is pr.pbably a total loss.
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