Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-16

This was not war. It was somethinp
 supernatural. awful! They were nui
 frightened; they were oppressed and ap
 palled. But the military discipline ol
 their minds soon exerted it's force. and S
 brief account of the terrific event wal
 transmitted to the authorities, and Serpt
 Kilsey was sentenced to a month in the
 guard house.
 No one approached the vicinity of the
 bluff where the fort had stood, for dange,
 might not be over; but every possible
 point of observation within safe dis tance was soon crowded with anxious
 and terrified observers. A feeling of awe
 was noticeable everywhere. If people
 could have had a tangible idea of what
 had occurred, it would have been differ.
 ent. If the sea had ragged; if vast body
 or water had been thrown into the air; il
 dense cloud had been suddenly elected
 from the surface of the earth. they might
 have formed some opinion about it. Bu,
 the instantaneous disappearance of a
 greet fertilization with little more ap. preclable accompaniment than the sud-
 7en tap, as of a little hammer, upon
 thousands of window panes. was some
 thing which their intellects could not grasp It was not to be expected that
 the ordinary mind could appreciate the
 difference between the action of an in-
 stantaneous motor when imbedded in
 rocks and earth, and it's effect. when op-
 posed by nothing but stone walls, upon or near the surface of the earth.
 Early the next n1orpiuD tho l;<%1o aoo< of the syndicate prepared to carry out its further orders The waters of the lower bay were now entirely deserted, craft of every description ha;ing taken refuge in the upper part of 3e harbor near and above the city. Therefore as soon as it was light enough to make ob- servations Repeller No. did not hesitate to discharge a motor bomb into the harbor. mile or more above where the first one had fallen. This was done in order to explode any torpedoes which might have been put into position since the discharge of the first bomb.
 There were very few people in the city and suburbs who were at that hour out Of doors, where they could see the great cloud of water rise toward the sky, and behold it descend like a mighty cataract upon the harbor and adjacent shores; but the quick, sharp shock which ran under the town made people spring from their beds. and although nothing was then to be seen. nearly everybody felt sure that the syndicate's forces had be- gun their days work by exploding an- other mine.
 A lighthouse, the occupants of which had been ordered to leave when the fort was evacuated, as they might be in dan ger in case of bombardment, was so shaken by the explosion of this motor bomb that it fell in ruins on the rocks upon which it had stood.
 The two crabs now took the steel net from its moorings and carried it up the harbor. This was rather difficult on &C., count of the islands. rocks and sandbars; but the leading crab had on board pilot acquainted with those waters. With the net hanging between them, the two sub merged vessels, one carefully following the other, reached point about two miles below the city, where the net was anchored across the harbor. It did not reach from shore to shore, but in the course of the morning two other nets, designed for shallower waters, were brought from the repellers and anchored at each end of the main net, thus form ing line of complete protection against submarine torpedoes which might be sent down from the upper harbor.
 Repeller No. now steamed into the harbor. accompanied by Crab A, and anchored about a quarter of mile sea- ward of the net. The other repeller, with her attendant crab, cruised about the mouth of the harbor, watching a smaller entrance to the port as well as the larger one. and thus maintaining an effective blockade. This was not a diff cult duty. for since the news of the ex- performances of the crabs had been spread abroad, no merchant vessel, large or small, cared to approach that port; and strict orders had been issued by the British admiralty that no vessel of the navy should, until further instructed, engage in combat with the peculiar craft of the syndicate. Until plan of action had been determined upon. it was very desirable that English cruisers should not be exposed to usesss injury and danger.
 Ihls being the state of affairs, mes- sage was sent from the office of the syndicate across the border to the Dominion government, which stated that the seaport city which had been attacked by the forces of the syndicate now lay under the guns of it's vessels, and in case of an overt act of war by Great Britain or Canada alone, such as the entrance of an armed force from British territory into the United States, or capture of or attack upon an American vessel, navel or commercial, by British man-of-war, or an attack upon an American port by British ves- 'els, the city would be bombarded and destroyed.
 This message, which was of course in- 'tantly transmitted to London, placed ,he British government in the apparent position of being held by the throat by she American War Syndicate. But if 1 'he British government or the people of England or Canada recognized this posi-