The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-08-02

The motor bombs which the repeller
was now discharging were Of the largest
size and greatest power, and Il dozen
more Of them were discharged at inter-
walls of q few minutes. The promontory
on which the fortifcations had stood
was annihilated, and tho waters Of the
bay swept over its foundations. Soon
afterward tho head of tho bay seemed
madly rushing out to sea, but quickly
surged back to fill the chasm which
yawned at the spot where the village
had been.
The dense clouds were now upheaved
at such short intervals that the sccne of
devastation was completely shut out
from the observers on the hills, put every
few minutes they felt sickening shock,
and heard q momcntary and horrible
crash and hiss which seemed to fill all
the air. The instantaneous motor bombs
We're tearing up the seaboard, and grind
ing it TO atoms.
1t was not yet noon when the bonn
hartlmcnt ceased. No more puffs of
black smoke came up from the distant
repclcr, and the vast spreading mass of
clouds moved seaward, dropping down
upon st. Georges channel in rain of
stone dust. Then the repeller steamed
shorcward, and when she was within
three or four miles of the coast she ran
up 4 large white flag in token that her
task WAS ended.
This sign that the bombardnlent had
ceased was accepted in good faith and
as some of the military and naval men
had carefully noted that each puff from
the repellcr was accompanied by a
shock, it was considered certain that all
the bombs which had been discharged
had acted, and that, consequently, no
further danger was to be apprcllcndcl
from them. In spite of this announce
ment many Of tho spectators would not
leave their position on tho hills, but u
hundred or more Of curious and courage.
Gus men ventured down into the plain.
That part Of the sea coast where Cacr-
daft had been was a new country, about
which men wandered slowly aud cau-
tiously with sudden exclamations of
amazcment and awe. There were no
longer pronontorics jutting out into tho
sea- there were no hillocks and rocky
terraces rising inland. In vast plain
shaven and shorn down TO common
level Of SCARED and pallid rock, there
lay an immense chasm two miles and u
half long, half mile wide, and SO deep
that shuddering men could stand and
look down upon the rent and riven
rocks upon which had rested that por-
ton of the Welsh coast which had now
blown out to sea.
An officer of the Royal engineers stood
on the seaward edge Of this yawning
abyss; then he walked over to the almost
circular body of water which occupied
the place where the fishing village had
been, and into which the waters of the
bay had flowed. When this officer re-.
turned to London he wrote q report to
the K.ct that ship canal, less than an
eighth of mile long, leading from the
newly formed lake al. the head Of the
bay would make of this chasm, when
filled by the sea, the finest and most
thoroughly protected inland basin for
ships of all sizes on the British coast
But before this report received due Off
cial consideration the idea had been sug
gested and elaborated in dozen news
papers.
Accounts and reports of all kinds
describing tho destruction of Caerdaff,
and of the place III which it had stood,
filled the newspapers of the world.
Photographs and pictures of Cacrdaff as
it had been and as it then was were pro-
duced with marvellous rapidity, and the
earthquake bomb of the American war
syndicate was the subject of excited con-
versation in every civilized country.
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