The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-30

! WSIS, WAS Illuminated.
! Another one Of Lanny's plansl"
thought Marta, "He would have them
work in the light, while we fire out
of obsourityl"
Soon all the town was in darkness,
for the Grays had cut the wire In the
main conduit shortly after she had
heard the groans of the wounded man.
There the automatics broke out in
mad storm, voicing their feelings at
getting a company in close order in
street for the space of minute, be.
fore those who escaped could plaster
themselves against doorways or find
cover in alleys. Then silence from
the automatics and a cheer from the
Browns that rasped out Its triumph
like the rubbing together Of steel files.
From the line of defense, that in
cluded the first terrace of the Galland
grounds as the angle Of redoubt, not
a shot, not sound; silence on the
part of officers and men as profound
as Mrs. Galland's slumber, while one
of the Browns search-lights, like some
great witch's slow-turning eye in a
narrow radius, covered the lower ter
races and the road.
Marta gave intermittent glances at
the garden; the glances of q guardian.
She happened to be looking In that
direction when figures sprang across
the road, crouching, running with the
short, quick steps Of no body move
ment accompanying that of the legs,
The search-light caught them In mer,
CHESS silhouette and the automatic
and the rifles from behind the sand
bags on the first terrace let go. Some
of the figures dropped and lay in the
road and she knew that she had seen
men hit for the first time. Others, she
thought, got safely to the cover of the
gutter on the garden side. OF those
on the road, some were still and some
she saw were moving slowly back ON
their stomachs to safety. Now the
search-light laid its beam steadily on
the road. Again silence. From the
upper terrace came a great voice, like
that of the guns, from human throat
'Why didn't we level those ter
races? They'll creep up from one to
the other!" 1t was Stransky.
In answer was another voice-Del-
larme's.
Perhaps there wasn't time to do
everything. If they get us far as the
first terrace-well, In case Of a crisis,
we have hand-grenades. But, God
knows, hope we shall not have to
use them"
After an interval, more figures made
a rush across the road. They, too, in
Stransky's words, paid a price for
seeing the garden. But the flashes
from the rifles and the automatic pro
blue spark that flies from an overhead
trolley or third rail, multiplied q
hundredfold, broke In Marta's face
1t was dazzling, binding as a bolt OF
lightning a few feet distant, with the
thunder crash at the same second
followed by the thrashing hum Of bull
let's and fragments against the side
of the house.
IT knew that this must comet
something within her said. If she
had not been prepared for 1t by the
events of the last twelve hours she
would have jumped to her feet with
an exclamation of natural shock and
horror. AS 1t was, she felt a convul
, sive, nervous thrill without rising
from her seat. A pause. The next
shell burst in line with the first, out
, by the linden-trees; a third above the
, veranda.
Z We've got that range, all right
4 thought the Gray battery commander
who had judged the distance by the
;. staff map. This was all he wanted tt
a know for the present. He would le
/. loose at the proper time to supper
h the infantry attack, when there were
r enough driblets across the road t.
n make a charge The driblets kept OF
a coming, and, one by one, the numbe
of dead on the road was augmented.
r Marta was diverted from this proc
r ess of killing by piecemeal by a NOR
> theatric spectacle. A brigade CON
l. mander of the Grays had licked a
d order over the wires and 1t had gon
from battery to battery. Not onl
@ many feld-guns, which are the teI
riers of the artillery, but some gun
c. of siege caliber, the mastiffs, in
J. sudden outburst started a havoc I
f. tumbling walls and cornices in ii
"a upper part Of the town.
u Then an explosion greater than ar
e. from the shells shot hemisphere
~ light heavenward, revealing a SHADOW
); body flying overhead, and an instal
lg later the heavens were illuminated
10 vast circle Of flame as the dirigib
IN that had dropped the dynamite ]
n ceived its death-blow. But alrea
ar the Brown infantry was withdrawn
lg from the town, destroying buildin
tn that would give cover for the alta
by in the morning as they went. Two
,ly three hours after midnight fell