The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-30
RECALLED 70 alH1M
Incident at Fort SptDpfep the
Last Day Of tho BoIAs
bardment4
AN ACT OF

The storm subsidized, and the sup Fose tyioA14z
10 usher In the final contest Of Saturday. Tho
bombardment was resumed by th9 inSnrkeAo
sna .S %Sts ni yisS o'c sssn n, sss Sy saa .a 9CS ss ss5S5s
were for the fourth time on fire. The men who
were not actually engaged In serving the few
guns In use tried TO extinguish the flames. For
one fre and enduring another against which
they would not fight. Here two nonccmbatAnts
distinguished themselves in this their maiden
battle-Mr. Hall, a physician, who, throughout
the whole bombardment, won the admiration OF
all by his GOODNESS, intrepidity and energy, and
Mr.: LPeter Hart. a sergeant In the New YORK
Metropolitan Police Force, who visited the fofti
company with Mrs. Anderson, and, on her, de-
parture, volunteered to remain there. On this
occasion the orders of the commander could
hardly restrain him from fruiuess exposure OF
his life, and he afterward performed an act OF
signal daring. The efforts to put out the firo
proved to be equally vain and perilous, for the
enemy now poured in a steady fire of red-hUt shot;
and rs fast rs the flames were extiDguished IN one
place they broke out in another. The task was
necessarily abandoned for another, yet m.re I'm.
the magazine, and the securing enough powder
TO keep up the tight. Nearly n hundred barrels
were taken out amid the roar OF the nalass, the
and the explosion of shells, and were thrown
into the sea. Meantime men were making cart
ridges as rapidly as possible In the magazine
shirts, and al similar material that the fost could
furnish. The supply obtainable In this manner
was, however, soon exhausted, and the heat
became so great from the blazing quarters and
barracks that the magazine could no longer be
LEFT open with safety. The doors were. therefore,
finally closed and locked, and the fight keptu
only In name by the occasional irregular dis
charges Of a gun. The situation OF the garrison,
actually desperate from the beginning. was nov
rapidly approaching the last extremity. About
this time the flagstaff, which, though hit nine
times, had thus far escaped with slight injury,
Wa shot away near the top. The lookout cried:
Tho nag n down." and instantly Mr.. Han
sprung odt into the flaming shot-raksd parade
and brought the flag away. But the haliihrds
we're % entangled that II could not be righted
and raised again. what should be done1 The
Gag mvAs noat for. terrible as the situation wa
no one lad yet spoken Of surrender. A temper
ar stn9 Wa rfgged upon the rsmpsfts sno folic3
0Gre~Ant Hart volunteered TO climb " fnd nei
Ne DEE nsA This he did while the enemy!
Sakt4rss ksve ND their furious FIRE Of shot and
sAsu Il he kos Of which he accomplished the
psr1ssa vxtsrtAkings and descended The stan =
kaby, rhs snemy, determined rebels nouq1
ChU were. se0ld not see unmoved this heroic
6exSnss "a fortress and for a nag for which thev
GlS tAAs enly . little while before they WOULD
have lboghS with no less gallantry. And at each
single rus, they ieaped upon thAtr own rsrnpArss
and chsefed Major Anderson and bis men
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