The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-02
VICTORY RESTS
WITH The FLEET
Land Stations Were Bombarded
and Captured.
CABLE COMMUNICATIONS CUT
The Cruiser Olympia Took a Prominent
Part in the Army and Navy Ma
noeuvres OFF the Coast of
Long Island.
CABLE COMMUNICATION CUT

NlNES IA3tID lila I'm. l'isAN2AS-. i'Nl|s' -
The Olympia has landed detachment OF
men al Cav Head and the cable from
that point TO inasgue Island has been cut
in connection with the war nanoeuVres,
II course. the seizure and destruction
OF Geographic and cae.e communication
were tiguratiye and ii required the de-
cision of an umpire 10 make PLAIN wheth-
er or not the plan attempted by Admiral
HieEinson had been woa. AS the iannihL
had been made, the telegraph and tele-
hone Offices were entered by sufficient
force to have destroyed the property, or
at least the instruments and at the same
time q boats crew had located the ca
lies with graphing hooks and had held
them a sufficient period to have allowed
for The cutting of them, there seemed
to have been no question that Inc move
had been entirely successful.
The Olympia appeared off this port
suddenly early this morning, and imme-
diately Two boats put off toward shore.
One was q launch and the other 4 whale-
boat and IN them was a detachment nn-
der Lieutenant J.. NJ. ErcrhaTdt- inc
launch landed here. while the Whalepoat
law of shore and at once began graphing
for the cable The mon under Lieu
tenant I1verhardt rushed to the telegraph
office and thence to the telephone sta
.;or and carried out their orders to sever
al, communication This accomplished,
they returned to their launch joined the
,yhaleboat and returned to their snip.
rths move cut off the only communi-
cation with the islands Of Nantucket ana
Martha's Vineyard, which are very I'M
,ortant observation stations.
- oF7IcIA1. DISPATCHES
roRr TRIJMBULL. MEM LONDON,
CONN Sept. l-iIeadquarters Army oil
Defense. Sept 1-Dispatchcs announcing
RIO canture OF Block Island and the selz-
1,re of the signal station at Ihat Polits
and ut Woods Hole were feceiNeu "
Major General Macarthur inns i h"ii'iilss.
Some of these dispatches were given out
to newspaper men, the 1iist 10 80
,bnt the first scout of the enemy had peeh
sighted off Point Judith at 1:So A. M
ana that they had stopped SOUND steam
or eff the point. This scout was thousht
b,, the observer to be either the 1louces-
ter or Hist
Following this was a dispatch saving
.ha: the Kearsarge, Massachusetts, SCOT
Mon. Panther and Nina had been sisht
"a i've miles south Of Point judith, ana
ms, they exchanged signals with the
lichtship and then headed out.
..The Brooklyn and Indiana captufea
BLOCK Island and collier entered iarbor
nj 6.15 A. NJ Fleet will undoubtedly es-
-ahlish base at Block Island. Brooklyn
landed marines On Block Island rresum-
,,llv 10 capture s.gnal station there
The seven vessels sighted off Point
Judith were reported approaching Block
Island at $40
Woods Hole. Signal Station destroyed
py Olympia ut $3.50 a. M.
Beacon Hill signal station, Block Is
land captured at A. NJ. by landing
party All signalmen escaped except
Two
EIGHT. AT FISHERS ISLAND
FISHERS. ISLAND. n. Y. Sept. l.
For, Wright at 1920 tonight exchanged
shots with a battieship Of the Indiana
tyne as she passed Fort Wright, going
toward Fort Terry on the Long Island
side. Afterward the guns of Fort Terry
were heard apparently trained on the bat
;lcship. A message was received n short
lime ago from the signal station at Hort
Mansfield announcing that the whole 1Ieet
was coming this way.
An officer in the Fort here is authority
for the statement the Mayflower was
blown up. Theoretically. by submarine
mine, while attempting to force an en-
trance at Fort Gut.
CAPTURED IsY ENEMY
POINT JUDITH, r. l., Sept l-ll:la A
M.-After period OF heaNy lrlhs Oh
Block Island communication between the
army signal station here and the l3ea-
con it'll signal station "a Block Island
was cut off FOR a time. At lo:45 com
munication was restored, but the enemy
was in possession OF the wire. Word
has been received here that the enemy
captured the signal station and all but
four men escaped.
The corps at that point included one
officer and eight men.
BLOCK ISLAND. r. l.. Sept. 1-Aftcr
a bombardment of two hours and a quar-
ter. Admiral lIigginson to-day captured
the signal and wireless telegraph sta
tons on Boston Hill and is now holding
the Great Salt Pond harbor. The signal
corps abandoned The station and escaped
The feet under Admiral Higsinson is
anchored off the breakwatcr.
WOoDSHoLE, MASS. Sept 1.-The
United states cruiser Olympia dashed in
to this port this morning, landed a force
and seized all telegraph and cable sta
TONS thereby cutting off all commune
cation with Nlartha's Vineyard and Eliza
Island