The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
AND THE SUN sHoNa INTO A GREAT HOLE
WHERE FORT PITCHER HAD BEEN.

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AND THE SUN sHoNa INTO GREAT HOLE
WHERE FORT PITCHER HAD REEN.
veyed the place where their fort had
been, there was not one Of them who had
sufficient command Of himself to write
report Of what had happened. They
gazed at the bare, staring fatness If che
shorn bluff, and they looked at each other.
This was not war. It wan something
supernatural. awful! They were not
frightened: they were oppressed and up
palled. But the military discipline Of
their minds soon exerted its force, and
brief account Of the terrific event was
transmitted TO the authorities, and Sergt.
Kilsey was sentenced 20 n month in the
guard house.
No one approached the vicinity Of the
bluff where the fort had stood, for danger
might not be over; but every possible
point Of observation within safe dis
lance was soon crowded with anxious
md terrified observers. A feeling of awe
was noticeable everywhere. II people
could have had tangible idea of what
had occurred. it would have been differ
ent. If the sea had ragged; If a vast body
Of water had been thrown into the air; If
II dense cloud had been suddenly elected
from the surface of the earth. they might
have formed some opinion about it. But
the instantaneous disappearance of a
great fertilization with q little more ap-
probable accompaniment than the sud
den tap, as of little hammer, upon
thousands Of window panes. was some
thing which their intellects could not
grasp. 1t was not to be expected that
the ordinary mind could appreciate the
difference between the action of an in
Simultaneous motor when imbedded In
rocks and earth. and its effect. when OPP
posed by nothing but stone walls, upon
or near the surface of the earth.
Early the next morning the little feet
of the syndicate prepared to carry out
its further orders. The waters of the
lower bay were now entirely deserted,
craft Of every description having taken
refuge in the upper part Of the harbor
near and above the city. Therefore as
soon as it was light enough to mako OBJ
servations Repeller No. did not hesitate
to discharge a motor bomb into tho
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 ut that hour out
of doors, where they could see the great
cloud Of water rise toward the sky, and
behold it descend like 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 DO in dan
ger in case of n bombardment, was SO
shaken by tho explosion of this motor
bomb that il fell in ruins on the rocks
upon which it had stood.
The two crabs now took tho steel net
from its mornings and carried it up the
harbur. This was rather difficult on ac-
count of the islands. rocks and Gandbars;
but the leading crab had On board a pilot
acquainted with those waters. With the
net hanging between them, the two sub
merged vessels, ono carefully following
the other, reached a point about two
miles below the city, where the net was
anchored across the harbor. 1t did not
reach from shore to shore, but in tho
course of the morning two other nets,
designed for shallower waters, wero
brought from tho repellers and anchored
Mt 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.
FRO DE CONTINUED
An sasa Woman Pursue, ~-sy a.spaau
ana sN,iis Him with nm Az.
Iowa Cry. Ia, Nov. 10--Samuel Brown,
farmer, who lived near North Liberty, a
village of this county, was killed by his vito
yesterday morning. Mrs. Brown was not of
perfectly sound mind and her temper was
naturally violent Yesterday morning, after
an unusually angry dispute with her hus.
band over trivial matter, she seized an ak
aud pursued him through tho house, hacking
him repeatedly, and finally Telling him TO
the floor dead. Mrs Brown has been ar
-as,nd and VIII ha examined as z, ns. sanity