Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-24

Aud rive NJ hell with shot and she'll.
And otherwise viii vex uA
Tho boaslins tnavcsi They're scufvg slaves
Prom Land's End 70 Norihumhriai
Our Yankee steel sgain they'll feel
Wen rive 'em Hail Columbis.
On the 22ud OF June, 1892, England
declared war.
Chapter the fourth " headed "rhc
Terrible Awakening" and shows how
the Americans now realize their de-
fenseless situation.
The gunboats sent 10 Canada IN sec.
tons were now constructed and placed
In the lakes. Chicago, Detroit, C'eve-
land AMI Erie were at the mercy o'ths
British ships.
Chapter tho 9Th IL headed "Prepnrs-
lions for National Defence" The
harbor and port Of New York Is sur.
rounded by British ironclads. II Is
found that New York City IL
wholly nj tho merry Of tn. British
Navy. Atthe sam. limo news reaches
Washington that San Francisco, Port.
land, Boston, Charleston, Savannah
and other cities Of the coast wcro con-
fronted with British ships VI war
British cannon, some OF them, sixty.
seven'top guns, capable Of throwing n
i2i0.pound shell distance Of ten miles,
were traInci on New York City. On
July 3rj the British Admiral sum.
monoJ tho Mayors Of New YORK and
Brooklyn, as well as ali the leading
merchants To meet him. They were
told that unless New YORK City sur.
rendered completely 10 British author.
lily and paid a sum Of $500, 0OJ, 900, the
city would be destroyed before "a hours.
This extraordinary demand could not
be complied with aud Now York was
doomed TO destruction.
The sixth chapter Is headed "Tbc
Destruction Of New York" II reads
as follows:
"Reddcned by tho glare of flames from
hundreds Of II. buildings IT, streets
drcnchcd with the blood OF thousands Of
IL people slain; mob OF ten thousand Of
the scum Of it, population dellrious with
drink and despair, plllaging the palaces
OF its milllonaircs, and committing the
most nendish outngcs upon the weak
aud helpless; It's splendid buildings
crumtling beneath terrible missiles; the
crash u solid shot spreading ruin on
every -idci the shrlokof shells leaving IN
their trnck death and destruction; tho
hoarse shouts Of noble band who tried
to save the city; the cries and means Of
tho wounded; tho yolls aud SCREAMS OF
frcnzicd nigi,ivcs; the roar OF the con-
Migration which now ragged from Cham
bcrs Stree, to Madison Square, such was
the tcrriblo ablcau presented by Now
York city on the night Of July i,h, iso2."
"Tho British admiral gave orders for a
simultaneous attack, and the dread havoc
began. The booming OF tho great guns 81
such terrible monsters ~ tho Black
Prince aud the Tcinoralre was followed
by combined roar Of cannon from the
cntirc neti and then iherc rainsd pon
the hapicss, helpless. ds.ep-eic.s city
such destruction rs had 10, been econ on
earth sibec Aimigh,y God visited his tor
riblc wrath upon the hrc.swcpt Cities OF
the Plain. There was no waste Of shot
or shell. From the first tho distance had
boon as accurately judged AZ " tho gun.
nors were Mt practice on y stationary hulk
In Portsmouth harbor. II had boon con.
ldontly beloved that the guns OF tho
ilcot would 10 Of insufficient power TO
reach New York City, and that brooklyn
would DO the first to suffer. hut this
proved to be mistake. At the beginning
OF tho bombarimcnt, Brooklyn escaped
comparatively unlnJurcd, the elevation
Of tho guns enabling Now York to DO
reached a, every point from Canal Stree,
down to tho Battery. ~. Psul's Church,
tho As,or House and tho City Hall wore
among the nrst buildings TO no struck,
and then the great newspaper Offices on
Park Row. Then sholl amer shell began
to fall In tho densely populated poorer
districts lying towards the East
River, aud an hour amer the lombard.
mont began ahot crashed into tho Now
York ond Of tho brooklyn Bridge. Two
hours lator u fifty.four.lnch shell ex.
ploded about .hrco hundred fec, from tie
Brooklyn side. on tho bridge, and an
hour later that vast structure Ind parted
and was IN ruins. And now fre began 10
add its dreadful horrors 10 tho scene.
Flames burst forth In a dozen different
places, the greatest fro Mt this time being
In the centre Of the dry gooda district,
while further up town there were dozen
bulldlngs burning In NJ many blocks. Il
was now seen thu, nothing could save the
city from total destruction. Tho farnc-
speedily got hoyond all control, and were
spreading In all directions. In tho mean.
time, tons Of thousands OF the poorer In
hablisnts had taken refuge In tho upper
part Of tho city, believing that they wrr.
out Of danger. But tbslr sorso Of No.
curity WIS soon rudely disturbed. shot.
from the noot In Flushing Bay began
falling up a. fur ~ Fortlcth Street, and
st. Patrck's splendid cathedral WAS
among the hrst of the uptown structures
Ia receive the shock. ono OF Its erca,
towers had fallen crashing . ough tho
Ioof, and killing hundreds OF people who
wcr praying In ths vas, templsr
Chapter tho seventh Is headed ~rbe
Doomed Cities OF the Coast" Chicago,
Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, ( sIainel,