Image provided by: Washington County Cooperative Library Service; Hillsboro, OR
About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1913)
FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1913. 6 Forest Grove Steam Laundry Wood, Coal, Cold Storage and Ice. MERTZ & LATTA Cor. 5th Ave. and 2nd St., Forest Grove, Ore. W. F. HARTRAMPH Feed Mill will run every day in the week. The War Fifty Years Ago Exploits of the New Ironclad Monitor Montauk Below Charleston— Captain J. L. Worden, Hero of the Original Monitor. In Command— Gallant Attack on Fort McAllister— The Ironclad Runs Close In and Withstands the Fire For Hours— Shots From Ten Inch Guns Roll Off From Her Plates, Leaving No Dent— The Famous Confederate Cruiser Nashville Destroyed by the Montauk With Hot Shot. B y C a p ta in C E O . L. K IL M E R . L ate U. S. V . O N tin -’Mil of February, isos, Captain John L. W orden, the hero of the M onitor M errimac battle, won fresh laurels w ith a new and improved type of irouclad. While uttiii’klng Fort M cAllister, Ga., Wit It the .Montauk, one of,C aptain E r icsson's Inter creations in ironclads, he Incidentally wiped out with hot shot the C onfederate steam er Nashville, the lirst cruiser put ullout lay the south. W orden's personal Injuries in ttie fight with the M errimac, M arch 9, 1H02, had disabled him for several months. lie joined ltear Admiral S. F. Im pont's south Atlantic squadron in fort, and perhaps the third would not have been attem pted*blit for the fact that while reoonnoiteriug with a view U> culch the Nashville on Feh. 27. when there was a dtfhse fog over the river, lie saw the cruiser aground above the batteries. Before the first attack tlie C onfederate range marks for the gunners in the fort were skill fully removed by a party of Federals in boats. Then the M ontauk steamed up to within 150 yards of the obstruc tions and threw out her anchors as a challenge for a gun duel. Like the original Monitor, the ilon- tauk's deck was alm ost wholly sub merged, and the enem y found her a tlme three woollen gunboats and a m ortar boat sent by Dupont to support the attack took station near the moni tor and opened upon the fort. The Con federate cruiser Nashville lay Btrand- ed 1,200 yards from the mouitor be yond a m arsh of tall canes. The up per decks of the cruiser were visible from the tu rret of the monitor. The moment his wooden consorts opened upon the fort W orden trained his guns upon the Nashville. The cruiser had often been sighted before by Federal ships when they were rec- ouhoiterlng around the fort and had al ways eluded capture and battle by fleeing up the river. W orden deter mined to finish her now th at she lay at his mercy before she could float and get back up the river. All the guns of the fort poured their eight inch and ten inch shots upon the Montauk, but W orden ignored them en tirely, and in turn the Confederate gun ners ignored the wooden ships. Only one shot from the fort struck the gun boat. T hat was from a thirty-tw o pounder and did but little damage. The fire of the fort upon the monitor was fast and furious, hut the gunners were evidently excited and desperate, for out of the hundreds aim ed at the Montauk only five found the little tar get. W orden got accurate range on the Nashville In spite of the fog. He was as close us it was safe to go. The Notorious Cruiser Nashville. UNDERTAKI NG FOREST GROVE UNDERTAKING CO. J. S. Buxton. Manager Pkont No. 6 42 1 Forest Grove. Or. Challenge to a Gun Duel. Dupont sent Worden to try bis guns against the fort as an experim ent for the new type of monitor, several of them having joined Ills licet for the purpose of attacking Fort Sum ter and the other fortifications in Charleston harbor. Worden would have taken In the original monitor, but she liad gone down at sea ou the trip from Fortress Mouroe. W orden made three dashes at the The Bankers & Merchants Mutual Fire Association Of Forest Grove, Oregon Conducted on Economic and Business Principles. The Home Company That Has Made Good. Insure Your Business or Dwelling in The Bankers & Merchants G ILTNER’S ROCERY Phone Main 701 South Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. Fresh Vegetables Every Day Amber and Golden Gate Log Cabin Bread Fresh Each Morning COFFEE Shells Set the Nashville Afire. The first few shells of the M ontauk set the cruiser on fire in the wooden upper works, and aliout th at tim e the Wholesale and Retail fog grew denser, completely shutting off the view from the Federal gunners. Bran,Shorts, Rolled Oats, Ground Still they continued firing, according | to the direction and elevation already Oats, Ground Wheat, Cracked obtained. Wheat, Cracked Corn, Whole I It was ju st tw enty m inutes after Wheat and Corn, Middlings and Worden fired his first shot when the flames burst out on the Nashville. several kinds of Hard Wheat Then thirty minutes of dense fog in Flour, Sack Twine and Sacks, tervened. and a t the end of fifty min Hay and Vetch Seed. utes. the fog clearing, it w as seen that the fire had increased. A pivot gun Give us a call when in need. mounted ab aft the m ainm ast of the burning cruiser exploded from the in tense heat, and a few m inutes later her lnd Phone 50x Forest Grove, Ore smokestack disappeared under a good shot from the turret of the Montauk. The flames soon reached the m aga zine of the ship, which exploded with trem endous force, leaving the cruiser a smoking ruin. W hen the Nashville's magazine exploded the Federal vessels ceased firing and dropped down the river, followed by random shots from Copyright by Patriot Publishing company. the fort. During his many trips up to the fort KO UT M’A LLISTEU, A GUA BDI AN OF CHARLESTON. in the M ontauk W orden had passed the Confederate torpedoes going and January, ISC,.-!, with the Montauk and very small target. She lay close tin coming w ithout meeting w ith harm, der the fort for four hours and em p lost no tim e in testing the new w ar but in his last w ithdraw al the monitor engine. Dupont’s task was to m ain tied her shell chests upon the works ran upon one. which stove a great hole tain a blockade against Charleston and w ithout doing the enemy any harm so in her side below the w ater Hue. The keep the enemy's ships from currying far as could he seen by a glass. Com Confederates in the fort had seen the arm s or supplies from England to the ing out of her first scrim m age wholly monitor pass and repass the torpedoes uninjured, although the enem y's gun harmlessly so often th a t they gave no pent up Confederacy. Fort McAllister stood a t the mouth ners landed many shots against her attention to her as she dropped aw ay of the Ogeechee river, on the Georgia Iron sides, the Montauk only waited down the channel. Besides, the fog coast, to guard the channel and shield to refill her m agazines and then boldly hid her from view of the fort, and the movements of Confederate block started in lignin. W orden succeeded in beaching her out ade runners then using th a t entrance, This time she anchored within 1,000 of sight of the enemy. one of the few which the Federala hail yards of the enem y's guns, directly op In a few days the wound was repair not securely closed, it was a t the posite all eight inch columbind. Tak ed by bolting a piece of boiler iron over southern extrem ity of the coast region ing the gun cham ber of the coliiuibiad the gap. and the M ontauk w ent back to which Dupont was attem pting to sub for his principal target, Worden bom- j her station on the blockade, doubly a jugate by mentis of warships. At the tim e of W ordeu’s arrival tlie C onfederate cruiser Nashville was up the Ogeechee river, w atching for a chance to elude Dupont's vigilant fleet and get to sea. The ship had already m ade history as a daring blockade run ner. She was a line, sw ift side wheel steam er, built for trade between New York and Charleston. T he Confederates seized tier after tin- fall of Sum ter, and she was seut out as a ship of war, with an arm a of two tw elve pounder guns and WM. WEITZEL ment a crew of forty men. In October, likll, she ran the Federal blockade out of Charleston and won the distinction of the first Confederate Hag in Tinning and Plumbing, Sheet Hying B ritish waters. She captured and burned a Yankee ship in the entrance Metal Work and Re of the British channel and was held pair Shop. under surveillance by the United States warship Tuscnroru for several weeks. In February, 18(12, the Nashville was Mguln In American w aters and by a N orth First Avenue, between Main and daring trick ran through the Federal “ A " S treets; phone 86,'t. blockading licet Into Beaufort, N. Running the fire of Burnside's block ading ships off Beaufort, she put in at Georgetown. S. where she w as tu rn ed over to private owners, and under a changed nam e had an exciting career SURVEYOR ns a blockade runner, flying the Brit Ish flag. Finally she was bottled up All kinds of survey In the Ogeechee by a flotilla of Fed ing and maping. oral gunboats. W hile w aiting to escape, the vessel Subdivisions a spec was overhauled and tilted out for a ialty. Confederate cruiser under the nam e of the R attlesnake, but the original H. B GLA1SYER, name of Nashville alw ays clung to her. HotTman & Allen Bld'g In attem pting to run out of the Ogoe- chee on Feh. 27 site grounded Just Phene 806 above 1'iWt McAllister. Forest Grove, Ore. During the time that the Nashville lay np the river Fort McAllister had been strengthened in order to make the cruiser's Iqdlng secure from the Federals. who were w atching her. The fort Itself mounted nine guns. Across the channel below a diagonal line of piles had been driven aud outside of Em balm ing and them a lust of subm arine torpedoes F uneral Directing carefully laid to catch any ship a t tem pting to pass the obstructions. Absolutely Safe and Reliable Neat Printing is something every business man desires when he orders station ery. Neat appearing business letter heads, envelopes, state ments, bill heads, cards, etc., are what can be had from the Press Publishing Co. Neat printing Is Our Motto and we endeavor to live up to it at all times. When we fail to deliver a job of printed work which entirely satisfies, we are prepared to make it right. A job turned out of this office must be correct in every par ticular. Bring your work to the Press Publishing Co. and be assured of securing some thing which is typographically correct, tasty in construction and neat in appearance. ELECTRIC POWER hnrded It fiercely with his eleven Inch and tlftcen Inch guns, the arm am ent of the M ontauk Isdng one of each. The first gun of the monitor was tired at 7:45 o'clock In the morning. At S:.’I0 o'clock n shell aimed at the eoliimblad struck a thirty two |Hnindcr gnu near the culiimhtud, killing the gun chief. M ajor Gallic, who stood by encouraging Ids men. W orden's heavy shells razed the parapet in front of the guns of the fort, leaving the men In the batteries very much exposed, hut they kept up a hot tire on the Moil- tank, moving their pieces from point to |H>int to battle the Federal m arks men. * Big Shot Strike the Montauk. Although the Montauk stood farther off In this attack than during the pre vious one. she was struck oftener. re ceiving forty one shots in all. Many of the missiles were ten Inch, but they rolled off from the iron plates, leaving scarcely a dent. When W orden steamed the Montauk up in front of Fort McAllister early on the morning of Feb 28 a fog still hung over the water, and. the tide being fa vorable. he anchored within SIIU yards of the cufuij » guus. At the same hero lu W orden’s second monitor fight. She had survived a fearful rain of shells as well as a torpedo thrust and also snuffed out a Confederate cruiser th at bid fair at one tim e to rival the career of the Alabama. The destruction of the Nashville by the M ontauk would have been deemed an equivalent for the loss of the Moni tor had she met the w orst fnte. The cruiser limi given the Federal govern ment no little uneasiness after her transform ation In the Ogeechee. It was feared th at she might escape and com m it vast depredations upon the commercial m arine of the United States. She was a sw ift steamer, and the Federal navy had not produced ber equal in speed. C aptain W orden's attack on the fort had also dem onstrated the relative value of ironclads against strong land defenses. The ship had withstood a rain of Iron herself, hut her guns had not Inflicted dam age upon the walls which could not tie speedily repaired overnight The fortress withstood stronger assaults later, hut continued to guard Charleston and Savannah un til near the end of the w ar It then succimi bed to an attack by land troo|>s. Cheapest and Best W ashington-Oregon Corporation.