The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-12
By JULIUS w. MULLER

STATION anu observers st TINS point. >
went the word from BaiIey's hill on
Nahant to the battle commander I'm
Fort Warren. mo losses. DESTROYER
) and five ships boats, with crews. com.
pletely eliminated"
They did not have time to cheer at
Fort Warren. From Nantasket beach.
as far south as Nahant was noreh a
landing was being attempted in greater
force and with the determIned as.
ISSUANCE OF a destroyer division that
was lying close to the beach, -
Here there We're 300 men Of .Nfazsa.
cnusetts volunteer militia, coast. artil
lery, behind barb wire and sandbao
ueIenses, with two pieces of field ar
uliery and three machine guns. They
were being swept by savage fire from
the destroyers.
We can hold the ships boats or
SURF nigh. and landing win be slow +"
they reported to the battle Commands
oy field telegraph But we must have
relief from naval fire or cannot concan-
traIe EFFORTS on landing parties
1helr officers sent the exact distance
rom the beach Of the destroyers. In
the forts the fire commanders studied
the1r charts, plotted with diagrams of
the shore In sections. They calculated
Ihe range. A dropping shot from a six
men gun fell among the enemy vessels
one minute later. The next went over
Inc third struck destroyer. Before
IL disappeared shells were falling
among the division too fast to count
1hree guns were firing. They were
throwing twelve shells in one minnie
Inc derenses were holding out. Whom
word came at last that the ra4aa-,
VINO had landed at Marblehead NIack
were retreating to their boats tba1srd
81 lne nights fighting had arrived. The
meet called or its boats and took them
aboard. S.'
"a saaggara and nnHia6Sw and far off. The
Acct was using only Its heaviest guns
and firing deliberately, though steadiiy.
Having failed to destroy the effecffve-
mass of the defenses it would content
itself with long range fire, simply 10
uear the defenders out TIL the army
should arrive.
All night long Boston people, moved
To uncomfortable terror by the lombard
, ment had tried to fee from the city.
All night long other crowds had tired
to enter 1t. On all the roads these ny
posing crowds had met and jostled.
They warned each other and tried 70
turn zach other back Shells were tall
Q inc into Boston town said the people
who were fleeing from the city Cfazeo
= NV fear they invented the most mon
strous tales and believed them.
Hull was destroyed utterly Inere
was nothing left Of it All gay Nan
+asket had vanished. Between u anu
q point AIlerton the houses along shore
r,oro thrown on each other and torn
apart or burned.
On the last train to come In TON
80 the direction Of Brockton were some som
who had fed from that city. lt ma
been taken by the advancing army !
II the small hours Of the morning. In
town authorities, ordered out or De
by soldiers, had been escorted 70 70
N enemy commander, who had mao
them write announcements. Be1oI
sunrise all the streets Haunted placarc
% ordering the inhabitants to continU
their business. Other placards waEue
them to deliver up all arms OF an
N description. Twenty of the most prom
inent men, said the fugitives, had bee
seized as hostages. ..-s.--
Wherever the army passed 1t mad
4S good it's possession wholly. 1t left L
80 village behind it in its march who's
means of existence, communicable
food supply and machinery of lab'
80 and business it had not made entirel
% its own.
Where there were destroyed piac'
the invader organized the populate
"a TO rebuild them He levied on evel
community, large anG small for fund
., He paid out nothing of his own exec
written scrip. At one blow the who
'41 financial system of the conquered cou
e try was converted into one gre
source Of tribute. -z~ .-,s.ey
~ Suddenly there came storm Of mex
to the Boston papers. 1t came fro
the country to the south of the barb
81 from Cohasset and bingham, We
mouth and Quincy. Heavy artille
33.s$s was being unloaded all along the Ii
Of the south shore branch of the
Colony railroad. Horses and linlbe
4.oi were moving along all the roads to
s.11 shore. Soldiers were advancing In
all the towns. 10y .a.y
Boston's populace, listening to {
324 clamor from the sea, scarcely not
800 that the bulletins were annonlci
that all the railroad lines of the Bost
% os and Maine railroad leading north a
1Con+;r,,ed on raxt y,aoe