Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 October 1890 — Page 2

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British navy should have to rush upon it, and all sink together in a common grave. But there were cooler and more prudent

Considered, it was agreed that the time 5 had .coi.no when good statesmanship and wise diplomacy would be more valuable to tho nation than torpedoes, armored ships or heavy guns.

There was not the slightest doubt that the country would disagree with the ".government, but on the latter lay the responsibility of the country's safety.

There was nothing, in the opinion of the ablest naval ollicers, to prevent the syndicate's fleet from coming up the Thames.

Instantaneous motor bombs could sweep away all forts and citadels and explode and destroy ail torpedo defenses, and London might lie under the guns of the repelkr.

THE GREATWARSYNDICATE.

BY FRANK R. STOCKTON,

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In ti11^ t^4k 11 vvjls statril that it w*:is ncm- tin.- intfiitiuii of tin- synilk-.ito to uttorlv (imtniy, l»y means of tlio uu.t vntaikoiis m.tfor, a foititiol i»st upon tliu lirilish cist. As thi.*, uouM Ik* ilonu poli'ly for tln pur[»OM' of ilrnionstrating the irresistible distinctive power of the motor foomlis, it was imniaterial to the syndicate what fortified post slumM Ixi destroyed, provided it should answer the requirements of the proposed demonstration. Consequently the British government .t-iu olfered the op|ortunity of "mulling the fortified place which should 1)0 destrojiil. If said government should decline to do this or delay the selection for twenty-four hours, the syndicate would itself decide upon the |laco to lo .operated up-wi.

Every one in every branch of the Rritisli iroveniment, ami, in fact, nearly every thinking person in the British .islands, had l*vn racking his brains, or ber bruins, that night, over the astounding situation and the note of the syndicate only added to the perturbation of the government- There wils a strong feeling in otlici.d circles that the insolent little enemy must Ihj crushed, if the whole

In eonserjupnw of this view of the

To this a reply was sent from theofficc of the syndicate in New York means

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of a cable !oat from the French coast, that on no account could their purpose -be altered or their propositions modified,

Although the British government might of public opinion in regard to tho recent be convinced of the jiowerof the syndi-

cate's motor liombs. it was not tho case with the British people, for it was yet popularly disbelieved that motor bombs I existed. This disbelief the syndicate' \ya-determined to overcome, not only for tiie furtherance of iis own purposes, but to prevent the downfall of tile present British ministry, and a probable radical cluing..' in the government. That such a political revolution, as undesirable to tho byndicate as toeool headed and sensible Englishmen, was imminent..there could be no doubt. The growing feeling of disaffection, almost amounting to disloyalty, not only in the opposition party, but among those who bad hitherto been firm adherents of the government, was mainly basi.il upon the idea that the present British rulers had allowed themselves to lie frightened bv mines and tor]edoos. artfully placed and exploded.

Therefore the syndicate intended to set right the public mind upon this subject. The note concluded by earnestly urging the designation, without loss of time, of .da. ol -itions. ilus answer w:ls received in London in tho evening, and all night it was the subject of earnest and anxious deliberation in the government oflice. It was at last [decided, amid great opposition, that tho syndicate's alternative must bo accepted, for it would lo the height of folly to allow the repeller to bombard any port she should choose. When this conclusion had been reached, tho work of selecting a place for tho proposed demonstration of tho American syndicato occupied but little time. The task waa not liilliculL Nowhere in (Jreat Britain was there a fortified spot of so little importance a.s (Juerdalf, on the west coast of Wale's.

Caerdalf consisted of a large fort on a promontory and an immense castellated structure on tho other side of a small bay, with a little fishing villago at tho head of said bay. Tho castellated structure was rather old, tho fortress somewhat less so and both had long been coijgjdered useless, as there was no probability that an enemy would land at this point on tho coast.

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Caerdaff wim therefore selected as the Spot to le ojienited U[x3n. No one could for a moment imagine that tho syndicato had mined this place, and if it should bo destroyed ly motor bombs it would prove to the country that tho government had not lieen frightened by the tricks of a crafty enemy.

An hour after tho receipt of tho note in which it was stated that Caerdaff had

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lioen sol«»*tol. the syndicate's licet started for that plav. The crabs were elevnt*l to cruising height, the rep.'ller tnken in tow, and by the afternoon of the next day the tleet was lying oil t'aerdalT. A mi' wns stmt on shore to the otlieer in civmtuiuid, s-tatim that tne iK'inbardment wuld U'gin at 10 o'clock in the morning of the next day 1 nit one, and miiHfiting tlml information of the hour np]»int-l l» instantly transmitted to IjOndon. When this had een done, the llevt stcnnuil six or seven miles oil shore, where it lay to or cruised nlxiut for two nights and a day.

As soon as the government had selected CiU'rdnlT for iHimbardment immediate measures wen' taken to remove the small garrisons and the inhabitants of the fishing village from jxjssible dangev. When tlio syndicate's note was received by the commandant of the fort ho was tilreutlv iii receipt of orders from tlc war otVieo to eviu'\i:it* the fortifications and to superintend the removal of the fishermen and their families t^ a [xiint of safety farther up the coast.

OaerdafT wiw a phu'e ditlicult of access by hind, the nearest railroad stations lx ing fifteen or twenty miles away, but on the day after the arrival of the syndicate's fleet in the oilir.^ thousands of people made their way to tiiis part of the

brains at the head of srlTairs: and those country, anxious to see—if perchance had already decided that the contest beitween the olil engines of war and the uew was entirely one sided. The instincts of goo«l government dictated to '.them that they should be extremely wary and circumspect during the further continuanceof this unexampled war. Therefore, when the note of the syndicate was

they might find an opportunity to safely see—what might hap en at 10 o'cLek the next morning. Ollicers of the army and navy, government officials, press corres]Hjndents in great numlers, mid curious ami anxious ol»ervers of all

classes,

hastened to the ^Velsh coast.

The little towns wuere the visitors left the trains wen' crowded to overflowing, and every possible conveyance by which the mountains lying back of Card ill could be reached was eagerly secured, many persons, however, being obliged to depend upon their own legs. Soon I after sunrise of the appointed day the forts, the villago and the surrounding lower country were entirely deserted I and every point of vantage on the tnottntains lying some miles back from the I coast was--occupied by excited spectators, nearly every one armed with a lield glass.

A few of the guns from the fortificatio|iij were transported to an overlooking height, in order that they might be brought into action in case the reseller, I instead of bombarding, should send men

state of affairs an answer was sent to the .!&yndieat./.-. note asking that further time 'Kjats to take possession of the evacubo given 'for the consideration of the sit-

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y- nation, and suggesting that an exhibition mining operations. The gunners for this battery were stationed at a safe place to the rear, whence they could readily reach their guns if necessary.

of the power of the motor ltoinb was not necessary, as sufficient proof of this had been given in the destruction of theCanadian fort.-., the annihilation of the Crag-j levin, and the extraordinary results of the discharge of said bombs on the preceding day.

fortifications, or should attempt any

Tho next day was one of supremo importance to tho syndicate. On tliis day it must make plain to tho world, not only what the motor tomb could do, but that tho motor bomb did what was done. Beforo leaving the English channel tho director of Iio[eller No. 11 hail received telegraphic advices from both Europe and America indicating the general drift

fight: and, besides these, many Eng.

lisli and continental jmpors had been brought to him from the French coast. From all these the director perceived that the cause of the syndicate had in a certain way suffered from the manner in which the battle in the channel had been conduct.-d. Every newspaper urged that if the repeller carried guns capablo of throwing the bombs which the syndicate proposed to use thero was no reason why every ship in the British fleet should not have boon destii yed. But as the repeller had not fired a single shot at the fleet, and as tho battle had been fought entirely by the crabs, there waa every reason to believe that if there wero such things as motor guns their range was very short, not as great :is tliat of the ordinary dynamite cannon. The great risk run by one of the crabs in order to disablo a dynamite gunlxjat seemed an additional proof of this.

It was urged that the explosions in the water might havo been produced by torpedoes that the torpedo lioat which had bwn destroyed was so near tho repeller that an ordinary shell was sufficient to accomplish the damage that ha-.i been done.

To gainsay these assumptions was im perativo on lie syndicate's forces. To firmly establish tho prestige of tho instantaneous motor was the object of tho war. Crabs wero of but temporary servico. Any nation could build vessels like them, and there wero many means of destroying them. Tho spring armor was a complete defonso against ordinary artillery, but it was not a defenso against submarine torpedoes. The claims of tho syndicate could lx lirmly based on nothing hut the powers of absolute annihilation possessed by the instantaneous motor bomb.

Alxrnt 9 o'clock on the appointed morning Repeller No. 11\ much to tho surprise of the spectators on tho high grounds with field glasses and telescopes, steamed away from Caerdaff. What this meant nobody know, but tho naval military observers immediately suspected that the syndicate's vessel had concentrated attention upon Caerdaff in order to go over to Ireland to do some sort of mischief there. It was presumod that the crabs accompanied her, but as they wero now at their fighting depth it was impossible to see them at so great a distance.

But it was soon perceived that Repeller No. 11 had no intention of running away, nor of going over to Ireland. From slowly cruising about four or five miles off shore sho had steamed west-

Tvard until she had reached a point which, according to tho calculations of hor scientific corps, was nine marino mile* from Caerdalf. Thero she lay to agaiiut a strong breezo from the east.

It was not yet lOo'elock when the ofllccr in charge of tlio starlward gun remarket! to the director that ho supixwed that it would not lx necessary to glvo tho sinoko signals, as had

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the channel, aa now all tho crabs wore lying near them. Tho director reflected a moment, and then ordered that tho signal should bo given at every discharge of the gun, and that the columns of black smoke shimld lie shot up to their greafos* height.

At precisely 10 o'clock, up rose from Hepeller No. 11 t~vvo t:ill jets of black smoke. l"p rose from tho promontory of Caerdalf, a heavy gray cloud, like an Immense balloon, and then tho people on the hill tops and highlands felt sharp shock of the ground and rocks hencalh them, and heard the sound of a terrible but momentary grinding crush.^

As the cloud liegiui to settle, it was lorne out to sea by the wind, and then it' was revealed that tho fortifications of Caerdalf

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disappeared.

In ten minutes thero was another smoke signal, and a great cloud over the castellated structure on tho othepsldo of the bay. The cloud passed awtrfj, leaving a vacant space on tlio otherfide of tho bay.

Tlio second shock sent a ]anic through tho crowd of spectators. Tho next earthquake bomb might strike among them. Down the eastern slopes ran hundreds of thein, leaving only a fow of tho bravest civilians, the reporters of tho press, and tho naval and military men.

The next motor bomb descended into tho fishing village, tho comminuted particles of which, being mostly of light material, floated far out to sea.

Tho detachment of artillerists who had been deputed to man the guns on tho heights which commanded tho bay, had been ordered to fall back to the mountains as soon as it had bivn seen tluit it was not the intention of the repeller to send boats on shore. Tlio most courageous of the spectators trembled a little when the fourth Uimb was discharged, for it came farther inland, and struck the height on which the battery had boon placed, removing all vestiges of the gtms, caissons, and tho lodge of rock on which tliev had stood.

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TIIE STAiflZDE CAUSED BV TIIE MOTOR BOMBS. Tlio motor bombs which the repeller was now discharging wero of the largest size and greatest power, and a dozen more of them were discharged at intervals of a fow minutes. Tho promontory on wliich the fortifications had stood was annihilated, and tho waters of the bay swept over its foundations. Soon afterward tho head of tho bay seemed madly rushing out to sea, but quickly surged-back to fill tho chasm which yawned at tho spot where tho village had been.

The dense clouds wero now upheaved at such short intervals that tho sceno of devastation was completely shut out from tho observers on the hills, but every few minutes they felt a sickening shock, and heard a momentary and horrible crash and hiss wliich seemed to fill all tho air. The Instantaneous motor bombs were tearing up tho seal roar d, and grinding it to atoms.

It was not yet noon when tho bombardment ceased. No more puffs of black smoke came up from tho distant repeller, and tho vast spreading mass of clouds moved seaward, dropping down upon St. George's channel in a rain of stono dust. Then the repeller steamed shoreward, and when sho was within three or four miles of tbo coast she ran up a large whito flag in token that her task was ended.

This sign that tho bombardment had ceased was accepted in good faith, and as some of the military and n.-.val men had carefully noted that each puff from the repeller was accompanied by shock, it was considered certain that all tho bombs which had teen discharged had acted, and that, consequently, no further danger was to lx apprehended from them. In spito of this announcement many of tho spectators would not leave their position on the hills, but a hundred or moro of curious and courageous men ventured down into tho plain.

That part of the sca coast wliere CaerdafT had been was a new country, about wliich men wandered slowly and cautiously with sudden exclamations of amazement and awe. There wero no longer promontories jutting out into tho sea Uiere wero no hillocks and rocky terraces rising inland. In a vaat plain, shaven and shorn down to a common level of scarred and pallid rock, thore lay an immense chasm two miles and a half long, half a milo wide, and so deep that shuddering men could stand, and look down upon tho rent and riven rocks upon which had Tested that portion of tlio Welsh coast which had now blown out to sea.

An officer of tho Royal engineers stood on the seaward edgo of this yawning abyss then he walked over to the almost circular body of water which occupied tho place where tho fishing village had been, and Into which tho waters of the bay had flowed. When this officer returned to London ho wrote a report to

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tho effect mat a ship cauzl, less tlum an eighth of a mile long, leading from the newly formed lake f-t tlio head of tho bay would make of this chasm, when filled by tho sea, tlio finest and most thoroughly protected inland -basin for ships of all sizes on the British coast. But liefore this report received dtfe official consulcjution the idea had been suggested and clalx)rated in a dozen newspapers.

Accounts and rejxrt« of all kinds describing the destruction of Cuerdafl, and of the place in which it had stood, lllled tho newspapers of the world. Photographs and pictures of CaordatT as it had Ix'on and as it then was were pn dueixl with marvelous rapidity, and tho earthquake bomb of the American war syndicate was the subject of excited conversation in everv civilized countrv.

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ELECTION NOTICE.

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Election to He llolrfeti Tttemlny, November 4, .1800,

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^nitoof Iruliana, Montgomery County, ss: To KbtMiczcr P. McClaskcy, Sheriff of Mild (xninty, State of Indiana, (ireetinjr.

It Is hereby certified to you by the undersigned Clerk of th«» Montgomery Circuit Court that at the biennial election to be held In said county on tiio first Tuesday after the tlrst Monday In November, In the year

Tuesday, November 4. Jhnoi, the

following officers are to be voted for and elected, to-wit: Olio Secretary of State fur the State of Indiana.

One Auditor of State for tho State of Indiana. One Treasurer of Statefor the State of Indiana.

One Judge of the Supremo Court for the fifth district for the State of Indiana. One .Attorney-Oeneral for the State of Indiana.

One Clerk of the SupremeCourt for theStute of lndiuuu. One Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Indiana.

One Chief of the Hureauof Statistics for tho State of Indiana. One State Geolojrtst for the State of Indiana.

One Representative In Congress from tlio eighth IMstrlct of the Suite of Indiana. One Judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit of the Statcof Indiana.

One Prosecuting Attorney for tho Twei.tyficcond 'udlclal Circuit of tho State of Indiana. One Joint Representative for the district composed of the counties of Montgomery, Putnam and Clay In the State of Indiana.

One Representative in the General Assembly of tho State of Indiana forth*? county of Montgomery In theStateof Indiana

One Auditor for theoountyof Moutgomory in thcStnteof Indiana. One Treasurer lor the county of Mont-gotn cry In the State of Indiana.

Mie Sherill'for the county of Montgomery in he Slate of Indiana. One Surveyor for l*.e county of Montgomery in the Slate of Indiana.

One Coroner for the county of Montgomery in the State of Indiana. One CotnmigBioncr for the second District of the county of Montgomery in the State of Indiana.

One Commissioner for the third District of the county of Montgomery In the State of In diana.

You will therefore proceed to give legal notice of such election ny publication of this certificate in a public newspaper printed In the county, by lasting a copy thereof at all usual places of holding elections in the several townships of said county, and by delivering a copy thereof to each ot the several Trustees and Inspectors of elections of said county, and make due return of this precept when fully executed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set iny name ami affixed theseal of said Court at the C.Mty of Crawfordsvllle. this 10th day of October, A. I), 1800. 1IKNHY H. HuliBTT,

Clerk Circuit Court.

StaUfof Indiana, Montgomery County, ss: 7h t/ic CJualifiol Voter* of Sa(/J County: I, KttcnOzer P. MeClaskey, Shcrlir or Montgomery county, in the State of Indiana, hereby certify the abovo to be a full, true and complete copy of the original certificate and precept as delivered to ino by the Clerk of the Montgomery Circuit.

Court.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. In the city of Crawfordsvllle, this lGLa day of OctolMjr, A. D. 1KM).

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