Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — Lay More Submarine Mines. [ARTICLE]

Lay More Submarine Mines.

New York, April 27. —The work of laying submarine mines in the lower bay was continued. Thus far 74 minea have been placed in the bay, and it is believed that three times that number will be “planted” from Fort Wadsworth to Sandy Hook. Should a hostile fleet succeed in passing Sandy Hook fort they would come to grief in the harbor because of the mines and dangerous reefs.