The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-11

AT thirty minutes past four O'Clock
the conflict was opened by the dis
charge OF a shell from the Howitzer
Battery on James Island. under the
command OF Captain George S. James.
who followed the riddled Palmetto
banner on the bloody fields OF Mexico.
The sending OF the harmful messen.
ger TO Major Anderson and followed
By deafcning explosion, which was
caused by the blowing up OF build
Ing that stood In front OF the battery.
While the white smoke was melting
away into the air. another shell, which
Lieutenant W. Hampton Gibbs has the
honor OF having fired. pursued its
noiseless way toward the hostile forth
tcation.
The honored missive described its
beautiful curve through the balmy
nir, and falling within the hostile for
tress. scattered its deadly content in
all directions. Fort Moultrie then took
UP the talk of death. and in mo
inent the guns from the redouhta BILE
Sun Battery on Comming Point. Cap
tain James HaniIton's Floating Bat
tery. the Enfiade Battery and other
fortifications spit forth their wrath at
the grim fortress rislng SO deflantly
out OF the sea.
Major Anderson r.@1ived the shot
and shell in silence. And some ex-
cited lookers-on, ignorant OF tho chm r
nrtcr OF the Zoe. were fluent with CON
lectures and predictions, that revived
the hope fast dying out OF their hope
ful and tender hearts But the short
lived hope was utterly extinguished
"hen the deepening twilight revealed
inc stars and Stripes floating proudly
In the breeze. The batteries continued
nj regular intervals to belch iron ven
seanoe. and sun no answer was re-
.urheh hy the foe. About an hour az
Ter the booming began, two balls rush
ed Missing through the air, and glanc-
ca harmless from the succeed bricks
OF rort MoultrIe. The embrasures ~
the hostile fortress gave forth no sound
again TIL between and O'Clock when
hs II wrathful from inforced delay,
from casemate and parapet the United
states ohiccr poured forth a storm OF
IRON hall upon Fort Multrie. Stevens's
IRON Battery and the Floating Battery.
me broadside was returned with spirit
Dy the gallant gunners at these i'm
| portant points lii -
ne hring now began in good earn
est. The curling white smoke hung
hoo'e the angry pieces OF friend and
esalar intervals on the anxious ear.
me atmosphere was charged with the
smell OF villanous saltpctre, and as IL
IN sympathy with tn emelancholy scene
Inc sky was covered with heavy clouds
and everything wore a sober aspect.
= boat bearing dispatches to Gen
eral Beauregard from Morris Island
ported that all the batteries vera YORK
ing admirably; that no one was in
lurea, and that the men We're wild win
enthusiasm.
4 short time after that happy news
was received the schooner Petril, from
hog Island channel. reported that the
shot from stevens's Iron Battery has
told upon the walls of Fort Sumter.
And also that Fori Moultrie had sus-
tanned no damage M,
About $3.50 o'clock Captain r. S.
farker reported fra Suilivan's Is
land to Mount TaIt.,,t' .ha, everv-
,Hlng was - Ft' 4 zion at Fort
Niouitrie. n ne soldiers had
Itch stated that the
ei''', u the Floating Battery
: inaged by the shock of the
and though that fornidable
"Sture had been struck eleven times.
he balls had not started a single holt.
anderson had concentrated his Are
upon the Floating Battery, and the
Dahlgren Battery, under me command
of Lieutenant Hamilton. a numher Of If
smells had dropped into Fort sumter
and ,one gun en- barbette had been dis
mounted. #
The following cheering tidings were
brought to the city by Colonel Ed
mund Yates. acting lieutenant 10
Dozier. OF the Confederate States Navy.
from Fort johnson, Stevens's Battery
and the Floating Battery are doing i'm :
portant service. Stevenss Battery had
made considerable progress IN breach
ing the south and southwest wall ot
fort Sumter. The northwest wall is
suffering from the &oll aimed iiro OF
tne FLOATING Battery, ;Shose shot have
.islhounted several of the guns on the
parapet, and made II impossible to use
Battery connected with the Impregna bic
e'un Battery at Cummings Point. is
managed with consummate skill and
terrible effect.
Eleven o'clock-A messenger from
MOTIFS Island brings the glorious news
ina the shot glanced from the iron
severe, covered battery at Cummings Point,
back OF turtle. The upper portion
OF the southwest wall of Fort sum
ter shows plainly the effect OF the
terrible cannonade from the formida HE
product of Mr.. c. II. Stevens's patrio-
tism and ingenuity.
half an hour later the gladstone
hiding come that stevens's Battery
YES, fast damaging tho southwest
wall of Sumter fsif lG
Henry Bnist is doing gallant service
with the Palmetto Guards, delightfng
al hearts by assuring us In tho city
that everything was going on well at
the Iron Battery. which was still proft
against sixty-eight Founders, and tho
men In good spirits .S
a boat reached the city from tha
floating Battery about 1880 o'clock
and reported that shot from Fort
Sumter penetrated the top or shed of
the structure, and three shoes struck
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