The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-18
: .fcontinusd from last sunday.)


Ear n0fthWaTd, miles ours1de OF Bns-
ton harbor, two ships stood into Ms
liant bay. Here In seven Eathoms OF
water they stopped and lowered their
boats. Manned by crack blue5ackets,
che cutters moved toward the beach at
Little Nahant.
Far away the harbor searchltghts
played Ike summer lightning. The
eaaiors moved on In utter darkness to-
ward the invisible beach. They rowed
q, In irregular formation TIL they could
hear the surf, then the foremost boats
lay still. tossing on the swell, waiting
for the others to draw abreast Form
less, vaguely gr9y In the night. tho
line made dnsh-
They were on the drst lifting swell
OF the long waves that tumble toward
the land when q fierce white light tore
terribly through the night and blazed
on them and around them.
Orange flashes ripped through It
Little Nahant beach quaked with ex-
plosion. In the white light, as IL the
tossing boats were spectral pictures in
dissolving view, they melted amid
the roar of the shore guns. Black
fragments wl1irled through the steady
glare, and shells chopped the sea where
there were bobbtng heads and clutch.
ing hands.
The light stabbed the night in and
out. 1t veered to sea with enormous
speed. A long, black silhouette with
three tunnels appeared full I'm the cir
Gle of its artificial day. a funnel van
ished, and another A spout of water
lifted alongside from shell that had.
kI1aT.4k 11e
smashed into its side and made 1t reel
The destroyer turned suddenly and
WISHED at the land. Its steering gear
had been shot away. Almost Instantly
it Strengthened out again. But Little
Nafant was raving. Little Nahant
was flaming without pause. The
seafchlight held the ship. 1t staggered
like stumbling animal, pitched twice,
each time little more wildly, and
went down bow first.
..Have repulsed attack on se9rchltght
station and observers at this point"
went the word from Bailey's hill on
Nahant to the battle commander in
Fort Warren. 'tNo losses. Destroyer
and hye 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,
landing was being attempted in greater
force and with the determined as
sistance of a destroyer division that
was lying close to the beach
Here there were 300 men OF Massa-
chusetts volunteer militia, coast artf-
lery, behind barb wire, and sandbag
defenses, with two pieces of field ar
tillery and three machine gnns. They
were being swept By savage IRE from
the destroyers.
1--WE can hold the ships boats OF.
Surf high, and landing viii 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 destroyer. Before
IL disappeared shells were falling
among the division too fast to count
Three guns Were firing. They were
throwing twelve shells in one minute
The defenses were holding out. When
word came at last that the raiders
who had landed Mt Marblehead Neck
were retreattng to their boats the end
OF the nights fighting had arrived. The
feet called of fits boats and took them
aboard.
HnRrard and pale, Boston's people
looked toward the sea and the dawn.
Tho sullen thunders still rolled out
there, but slowly now and far on. The
feet was using only its heaviest guns
and firing deliberately, though steadily.
Having failed to destroy the effective
mesa of the defenses it would content
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 fee from the city
All night long other crowds had tried
to enter 1t. On all the roads these OPP
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 and believed them.
Hull was destroyed utterly. There
was nothing left Of it. All gay Nan
$asket had vanished. Between 1t and
Point Allerton the houses along shore
were thrown on each other and torn
apart or burned.
on the last trnin, to come in from
sbe direction of Brockton We're some
VINO had fed from that city. It had
been taken by the advancing army In
the snann hours OF the morning. The
town authorities, ordered out OF BED
by soldiers. had been escorted to tho
laad