The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-03

I 1t straightened out again. But Little Nahant wasN ravfng. Little Nahant was flaming without pauseI The searchlight held the ship. It staggered like a stumbling animal, pitched twice, each time little more wildly, and went down bow first
 Have repulsed attack on searchlight station and observers at this point, v went the word from Bailey's hill on Nahant to the battle commander In Fort Warren. ''No losses. Destroyer and i've 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 north, 1andinGwas being attempted in greater force and with the determined as sfstance of a destroyer division that was lying c1ose3to the beach.
 Here there were 1900 men of Aassa- chusetts volunteer militia, coast artfl- Iery, behind barb wire and sandbag defenses. with two pieces of field ar tillery and three machine guns. They were being swept by savage fire from the destroy CTS.
 {. We can hold tho ships boats off. Surf high, and landing win be slow they reported to the battle commander by field telegraph But we must have relief from naval fire or cannot concen- trate efforts on landing parties.'
 Their officers sent the exact distance from the beach of the destroyers. In the forts the fire commanders studied their charts, plotted with diagrams of the shore in sections. They calculated the range. A dropping shot from six inch gun fell among the enemy vessels one minute later. The next went over The third struck a destroyer. Before 1t disappeared shells were falling among the division too fast to count Three guns were firing. They were throwing twelve shells fn one minute.
 The defenses were holding out When word came at last that the raiders who had landed at MarbIehead Neck were retreating to their boats the end 2 of the nights fighting had arrived. The fleet called of it's boats and took them aboard
 Haggard and pale, Boston's people looked toward the sea and the dawn there. but slowly now and far of. The feet was using only it's heaviest guns and firing deliberately, though steadily Having failed to destroy the effective
 
 itself with long range fire, simply to wear the defenders out till the army should arrive
 All night long Boston people, moved to uncomfortable terror by the bombard- ment, had tried to flee from the city All night long other crowds had tried to enter it On all the roads these op posing crowds had met and jostled-
 They warned each other and tried to turn each other back. Shells were fall ing into Boston town said the people who were fleeing from the city Crazed by fear they invented the most mon strous tales ard believed them.
 Huh was destroyed utterly. There was nothing left Of 1t All gay Nan stasket had vanished Between it and Point AlIerton the houses along shore were thrown on each other and torn apaEt or burned
 On the last train to come in from the direction of Brockton were some who had lied from that city. It had been taken by the advancing army In the small hours of the morning. The town authorities, ordered out of bed by soldiers, had been escorted to tho enemy commander, who had made them write announc cements. Before