Evening star., 1915-05-09

were thrown on each other and torn
apart or burned.
On the last train to come in from the
direction of Brockton were some who had
fled from that city. 1t had been taken by
the advancing arms in the small hours
of the morning. The town authorities.
ordered out of bed by soldiers, had been
escorted to the enemy commander. who
had made them write announcements.
Before sunrise all the streets Haunted
placards ordering the inhabitants to con-
tinue their business. Other placards
warned them to deliver up all arms OF
any description.
Twenty of the most prominent men.
said the fugitives. had been seized as
hostages
Every little while now Bostons COM
munication mn with some point was being cut.
These severed lines told of the advance
of the hostile army as eloquently as mes
sageS might.
Up and down Washington street moved
the multitude. waiting for news. The
Old South meeting house that has looked
down on so many dramatic Boston spec
tacles never had looked on one tragic
as this-oE a proud and not timorous city
that was waiting impotently to be taken
and dealt with.
Had the enemy como quickly, had the
army advanced into Boston with a swift
rush. it would have been less agonizing
for the waiting city than this slow, sys-
tematic. machine-like advance like the
jaws Of a great pincer that were closing
down with cruel deliberation
The army circle was concentrating all
the time. but 1t concentrated slowly
Though the enenays scouts had assured
him long ago that the road was free, he
was taking no chances in that hostile
land. whose sting he had felt. Far as he
might throw out his advance guards, he
ro hat ha,y y-I-,
stant touch with the main force and with
each other. He moved his divisions IN
hghting array. He kept unbroken line
of communications
Wherever the army pa ssed il nade oood
Its possession wholly. 1t left no village
behind it in its march whose means of
existence, communication, food supply and
machinery of labor and business it had
not made entirely its own.
Where there were destroyed places, the
invader organized the population to re-
build them He levied on every COM
munity, large and small, for funds Ha
paid out nothing of his own, except writ
ten scrip At one blow the whole financial
system or the conquered country was con-
VeIled into one great source of tribute.
Suddenly there came a storm of news
TO the Botson papers. 1t came from the
country to the south of the harbor-
from Cohasset and bingham, Wey-
mouth and Quincy.is
Heavy artillery was being unloaded
all along the line of the south shore
branch of the Old Colony railroad.
Horses and limbers were moving along
all the roads to the shore. Soldiers were
advancing into all the towns
Before the bingham wires were cut.
the correspondent in that town report
ed that enormous guns were being
moved through 1t. on heavy motors.
Quincy telegraphed that troops had
hurried through there and seized the
10O-goot Great Hill. and also the yacht
clubhouse on Houghs neck. Then
Quincy, too, was cut off.
Scarcely half an hour later the fire
from the forts broke out furiously. It
was answered, with greater speed and
fury, from the shore. where the foe
had posted his great guns to enfllade
the harbor defenses.
At Fort Revere the commandant cut
away concrete emplacements and suc-
ceeded in swinging one of his 12-inch
guns around to fight the assailants
putting a heavy howitzer near Hing
ham out of action.
second plunging shot fell near q
gun behind Baker Hill. but the as
concealed under Turkey and Scituate
hills. concentrated a desperate bonn
bardment on him that drove the Ameri-
cans from the works.
Firing from heavy-calfber weapons
at short range. pouring explosives and
common shell and shrapnel from every
vantage point along all the shore. the
hostile army swept the rear Of the har-
mere impact of the solid shells made
a din like the pounding of monstrous
riveters' hammers.H
From the sea all the big guns Of tho
ships struck into the chorus. The ves-
sells pressed in as closely as they dared
and opened with every cannon that
could get the range.
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Boston's populace, listening to the
clamor from the sea. scarcely noted
that the bulletins were announcing that
all the railroad lines of the Boston and
Maine railroad leading north and
northwest to Portsmouth. Haverhill.
Lawrence and Lowell had been seized.
and that Boston was completely cut
off.
Silent policemen appeared all at once
followed by men with posters and
go up on their walls. signed by tho
Boston citizens committee.
There was a poster in great red let
ters warning the Inhabitants to deliver
any firearms that they possessed in the
city hall within six hours
ATTENTION. said another placard.
TN case of military occupation of the
city, a single disorderly act may mean
n the ruin of all. 1t is the duty of all
. citizens to offer no resistance, and to
report to the authorities any plan to-
Y, ward resistance"
. There was a great stir in the crowd.
g A cab was pushing its way through
= Washington street to the Globe build
y ing. Two disheveled and blood-stained
= artillerymen and an equally disheveled
/ civilian were In it.
II While the soldiers went on to the
o city hall. the civilian got out and en-
d tered the newspaper office. He was a
,. Globe reporter.
d The rumor sped from man to man in
= the crowd before tho building. and
from street to street that news had
n arrived from the forts. There was a
= tremendous press into Washington
- street, whore men and women, crushed
: together. stared at tho building.
I. The cab hardly had stopped at the
2 city hall before a bulletin went up.
"FORT ANDREWS GARRISON
. DIES AT IT'S POST
8 IGNORES SUMMONS TO SURRENDER
ONLY THREE MEN ESCAPE FROM
T. RUINS
Ten minutes later the extras ap-
. peared and were whirled through the