Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-12

lightning. Singularly enough, that was
the only shot which ever hit the house.
though dozens fell around it.
After Grant had his guns in position.
and more especially after he began
reaching out for the Weldon Railroad,
he could have knocked Petersburg to
pieces in twenty-four hours He would
probably have done so had there been
any excuse for it, but there was none.
The Confederate lines were a mile and
4 half away, and Petersburg was held
only by non-combatants. Nevertheless,
Grant did not propose that anyone in
reach of his guns should sleep soundly
or forget his presence. Occasional shot.
were. therefore. pitched into the city &c
check any enthusiasm.
One night during an artillery duel to
the left of the Crater, the Federal guns
were for time so elevated that every
missile cleared the Confederate lines,
howled over Petersburg. and fell
among the houses under the hill. One
shell entered the window of house
and exploded in the parlor. A part of
! the front of the house was blown out.
one side demolished, the chamber floors
driven through the roof. and the whole
building weakened. The people had
removed, leaving most of their goods.
and a dog TO watch them. No one
could say Just where the dog was when
the explosion took place, but he was
not killed.
In the winter of 1864 a citizen. who
had Unexpectedly received $1,000 i'll
Confederate currency on an old debt,
determined TO have good, square din
ner. and company TO help eat it. Rye
coffee, bacon, meal, rice and molasses
were about the only provisions in mar
ket. but at a cost of 81 900 the citizen
scraped together enough to justify him
in inviting a company of six friends.
/ The guests were in the parlor, the Ia
BILE set, and the cook was over the
stove, when a shell entered the dining
room through the side of the house.
The explosion so wrecked the room that
no one could enter it. The table, pieces
4 of which saw. could not have been de-
molished any better with an AK, and the
| plaster in two or three other rooms was
shaken down. While all was excite
ment, and before any one really under,
stood just what had happened, asecond
shell plunged into lower bedroom in
another part of the house, alighted on
the bed and there exploded. All
| the plaster on that side of the room and
overhead was shaken of. the walls
bulged out, the window glass shivered
into fine fragments, bureau split TO
kindlings. and vet looking-glass was
not even cracked. The force of the ex-
plosion was upward and outward, and
save powder stain and a scorch the
bed was not damaged. These two mis-
siies were the only ones which entered
house on that block during the whole
siege, and were probably thrown from
gun which had just been put in position.
Scores of shot and shell fell upon the
streets, and many pedestrians were
MANNED and killed. A solid shot which
hit chimney and then rolled off the
roof killed colored woman who was
passing below. A shell which fell near
a negro who was working in a garden
tore him into small pieces and cut the
handle of the hoe off within foot OF
the socket. 4 boy on horseback heard
whirr and saw a flash, and the next
thing he knew he was seated astride
of n dead horse, a cannon bail having
torn the animals jaws off. Escapes
were both wonderful and innumerable.
and when one sees the bullets in win
dow sills, the cannon balls in the walls
and the rents made by the deadly
shells. he is amazed that any one had
the bravery to remain there during
those long months when every day was
full of death and every night replete
with horror.-M Quad, ia Dctroa Free
Press.