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FORKS'! GROVE PRESS, FOREST^GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 13, 1913. Forest Grove = Steam Laundry confusion he struck out to w ard shore, but, seeing bis mistake, turned buck and reached the ship. Captain Smith said In his report: "I consider th a t I should be neglecting n most Im portant duty should 1 omit to mention the coolness of my executive officer, Mr. Dewey, and the steady, fearless an d gallant m anner In which the officers nnd men of the Mississippi defended her and the orderly a n d quiet iuunuer In which she w as abandoned a fte r being thirty-five minutes aground under the fire of the en em y ’s batteries. T here was no confusion in em barking the crew, and the only noise was from th e en em y’s cannon.” L ieutenant D ew ey was th en twenty-five y ears old. The War fifty Years Ago Admiral Farragut Runs the Gantlet of Fire at Port Hudson—-The Flagship Hartford Gallantly Clears the Confederate Batteries— Two Ships In a Fleet of Nine Get Through— Four Retreat, Badly Battered and One Is Destroyed-—Lieutenant George Dewey, the Present Admiral, an Officer on the 111 Fated Ship. Heavy Losses on the Federal Side. Wood, Coal, Cold Storage and Ice. Absolutely Safe and Reliable The Bankers & Merchants Mutual Fire Association O f 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 Farragut's-Iosses Heavy, B v V C < Í i I n M t I . I n G t O . L. K i L M t K , L i t e u . ». v . MERTZ & LATTA Cor. 5th Ave. and 2nd S t., Forest Grove, Ore M j W. F. HARTRAMPH Feed Mill will run every day in the week. 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A shot stru ck the was destroyed, fou r retreated baillj bridge of th e Monougahela, and it w ent battered and tw o came off uninjured. crashing to th e deck with C aptain Me- The stretch of river between F’ort K instry In th e wreckage. Hudson and Vicksburg was used by Stranded Under Fire. the Confederates as a w aterw ay t a p ping the rich agricultural country up T he Kineo Anally got loose from the tin* Red river. T he Confederate garri bank and returned to th e a i d . o f the son a t Vicksburg, which G ran t was Monongahela. Making fast, she pull aiming to su bjug ate, d rew its supplies ed her consort from the mud, an d the from th e region west of tMe Mississippi tw o again started upstream . In a short by steam ers plying th e Red river. time the crank pin of the Monongahela In February th e Federal steam ram w as so heated th a t the engines stop Queen of the West, un der the gallant ped, and th e ship, being wholly un boy commander, Charles Rivers Filet, manageable, drifted out of range. was captured while a tte m p tin g to put At 12:20 o'clock th e old Mississippi an end to the s team b o at trallic down reached th e bend a t th e upper bat the Red river and added to the Con fed | teries, w here th e leading vessels hail ernte lieet in those waters. The Fed | m et with mishap. J u s t w here th e ef eral Ironclad (ndlanola followed the fect of th e shore gun s w as g re a te st Queen In the darin g enterprise and was she grounded and heeled to port. With also overcome an d destroyed. his starbonrd guns flring as though T he news of the disasters to the nothing had happened. Captain Me Queen and I ndlanola set old F a rr a g u t’« la ncthon Smith ordered th e port guns blood on fire. He originally went to d raw n in to lighten t h a t side of the the lower Mississippi with orders to ship. Even th en th e vessel did not open up th a t channel to the head of come to an even keel, anil the engines navigation an d keep It clear of the en were unable to budge her from the emy's ships. Now G r a n t ’s whole en hank. Captain Smith th en decided to terprlse at Vicksburg w as at stake. At Ore his ow n ship and snve his men. Port Hudson th e Confederates had The Confederates kept up a terrible nineteen guns in position on the bluffs Ore on the luckless vessel, but her to rake the channel up and down the own gunners at th e s ta rb o a rd pieces river, and an arm y of 20,000 men lay still fired ns though all w as well on In strongly fortified lines to cover the board T h e flash of th e e n e m y ’s guns fort from land attack. on th e bluff 100 yards a w a y w as the In order to deceive th e garrison ns to only guide for the Federnls. th e real movem ent menacing the post All the guns not a t work In the fight General Ranks marched Ills arm y of were th row n overboard, also th e small 17.000 men from Raton Rouge to Port arm s nnd e v ery th ing t h a t could be Hudson to th re a te n an attack on the recovered and used by th e enemy. A ft rear Ranks intended to open on the er sm ashin g th e engines th r e e fires fort with his cannon an d d ra w Ore were lighted In the storeroom, b u t a Foreat Grove, Ore - •£, i WM. WEITZEL j Tinning and Plumbing, Sheet Metal Work and Re pair Shop. - Copyright by Review of Reviews company. F A H R A G U T 'S FA MOUS upon himself to spare th e ships, bu t he was deceived by a false map and failed to being Ills artillery within range. Battle Line of Wooden Ships. F arrag u t formed Ills line with the N o rth F irst A venue, betw een Main anil old s t i l e war sloops H artfo rd, Rich “ A ” S tr e e ts ; pilone Stilt. n'Olid. .Monongahela and Mississippi at th e front, followed by the new river Ironclad Essex and the gu nb oats Al hat rose, Genesee. Kineo and Sachem lashed to the port side of the sloops aw ay from the C on federate fire. All told, these ships mounted 121 guns. T he night was dark and heavy. Soon a ft e r ¡1 o'clock th e fleet started slowly t iqi ttie channel, nnd shortly tw o sig mil rockets on th e bluff gave warning that the movement was discovered ■ Almost Immediately th e Confederates opened lire, the fleet a n sw ering tn kind and steam ing steadily on. Ity th e time Front the preparing of the Richmond reached the upper bat the food to the serving, teries th e smoke waa so thick tlint the pilot could not see beyond the end of ab so lu te cleanliness and the ship Huge bonfires of pine, lit painstaking care is observ up on th e bank bjr the Confederates sent up clouds of black sm oke which ed by the settled over the river. The H artford grounded once and In backing aw ay narrowly escaped colli sion with th e Richmond, which was Everything to Fat close Udiind Finally th e H artford, with her consort, th e Albatross, clear O ysters anil Shellfish a ed the batteries They had l>cen under lire one hour. .Ni ne of th e other ships Specialty. was aide to follow T he Richmond, a ft e r getting clear of the H artford, was struck by a shot In the safety OjH'n Day and Night valves which upset them and made ED. B OOS, P ro p rie to r her engines useless. T h e Genesee, lushed to th e Richmond, tried to pull her wounded consort through, hut her power was too weak against the strong cu rren t T h ese tw o turm sl bach and anchored below th e batteries. ■ \ I’he Monongahela ran aground on IV l the west shore Just as th e Confederates opened fire The shock of strikin g tore loose th e lashings of bar consort. Forest Grove Oyster House r, FL A G S H IP HARTFORD. T h e Mississippi really had the h a rd est end of the struggle to bear. By the tim e she reached the bend w here all the vessels came to grief the smoke m ade It Impossible for her pilots or her gu n n ers to see beyond tlie ship's rail. Moreover, the Confederate g u nners had found the range upon the point where the Federals grounded. Doubtless tbeii range had already been fixed there as G ILT N E R ’S ROCERY Phone Main 701 South Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. Fresh Vegetables Every Day Log Cabin Bread Amber and Fresh Each Morning Golden Gate COFFEE 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 (g by R eview of R ev iew s co m p an y . LIEUTENANT GEORGE DEWET, C. S. N., AN O FFICER ON t n M I S S I S S I P P I . the one place where the ships would be most exposi*d to difficulty in making out the channel. W hatever the cause, th eir missiles reached the ta r g e t with deadly accuracy for night fighting. Tile Ironclad Essex did not go fur enough to come under fire of the shore guns, but lay back with some mortar boats, which kept up a fierce bom bard m ent on th e fort all the tim e the ships w ere disputing the passage I-'arragut's total loss w as 113 a t P ort Hudson, nearly as many ns the whole fleet hail sustained when lie passed Fort Jack- son and Fort Philip at the mouth of the Mississippi durin g the fam ous a t tack on New Orleans In April. 1802. His flagship, the H artford, lost two killed and six wounded, the Richmond , th ree killed an d tw elve wounded and the Monongahela six killed and tw e n ty-one w ounded T he Mississippi, fol lowing th e others and last in the order i i named, lost twenty-five killed and th i r ty-nine wounded, the result to each vessel sh ow ing th a t the C onfederate aim grew more deadly as the fight progressed. F a r r a g u t steam ed on tip the Mlasts slppl with th e H a rtf o rd and Albatross and blockaded Red river. This being the object of his wild dash p a st Port Hudson, the e n terp rise was a success In spite of th e d is a ste r to the other ships. Rauks w as some tim e in doubt as to the fa te of F a rr a g u t. but ns soon as he learned his w hereabouts and condition th e a rm y w as w ith d raw n from P o rt Hudson to Raton Rouge to a w a it a more favorable tim e for a t ! tacking th e batteries. T he most th a t \ Ranks accomplished In support of F a r j rag u t at th is tim e w as to engage the 1 C onfederate skirm ish ers outside of th eir works. Even this m ay have | simply aroused the C onfederates and j made them more alert for the fleet. C onfederate shot cat through the hull below w ater, letting In a flood which put out th e flames. Meanwhile th e wounded had been lowered Into boats Fires were start- ed between decks fore and aft, and soon the grand old Mississippi, which had hi-on F erry 's flagship in the w ar with Tri|a>l|. w as a mass of flame At last the crew was all iu the boats, (lie iinderotHcers with them, nnd Cap lain Smith, with his lieutenant, spiked Hie still smoking starboard guns and ! Other Events of the Week. left the vessel to its fate. On the morning o f the 14th of March, Having lost so much of her weight tSOff, an a tta c k was made by Confed hy the aban do nm en t of her crew nnd | e rate troops und er General D. II. Hill the destruction of arms, the ship soon upon F ort Anderson, an unfinished floated and drifted down stream in the work on the bank of the river Neuse. wake of the vessels which hail retreat opposite Newbern, N. C. T h e post ed Collision w as avoided, and she w as garrisoned by n single regiment of passed on. her magazines exploding at Federal volunteers of General J. G. VflO In the morning with a detonation Foster's comm and. T here were no heard for miles, much to the Joy of the guns mounted in the fort, nnd the troops i \tn fe d e ro te s were unable to offer stro ng resistance. The Mississippi lost sixty four men Opportunely, the gunboats Hunch, Killed and wounded In this encounter. I back nnd Hetzel. assisted by the i very heavy casualty list for the hard steam er Shaw sheen nnd some sm aller est naval battle anil greater th an that \ vessels, moved to the defense of the if all the other ships tn the fleet that fort nnd by a well directed fire silenc morning combined She also did more ed the C on federate artillery, consisting execution th an all the others, for while of fourteen guns. A nine Inch shell slie lay aground her guns plowed the from the Hetzel dism ounted a Confed Confederate works on the hill. Her e rate gun. killing many of the gunners. officers and men remained cool through Hill finally retreated up the Neuse. out the trying ordeal, never forgetting w here the Federal light d r a f t vessels that they should tight the enem y’s bat followed nnd harassed the march. teries so long ns their guns could bear On March Id G eneral If S G ran t or n|H>n them. dered General \V. T S herm an to go at F a rr a g u t had given his ship com the head of a pioneer corps on a scout m anders Instructions when setting out ing trip Into the bayous east of VI,k«- th a t morning to maintain an Incessant burg Sherm an set out th a t day with (Ire while passing up past the fort not the Eighth Missouri “regiment and a only for self defense In each case, but hand of pioneers He was to c u t a way In order to worry and baffle the enemy through the narrow channels, obstruct for the benefit of the consorts follow ed by sunken or overhanging trees, nnd. Ins When the M i s s i s s i p p i ground»*,! If possible. Join a fleet of gunboats the shock th rew her lieutenant com which Admiral D P P orter had with niamler, George IVwey (later the boro difficulty taken into Steele's bayou, in o f Manila hay). Into the river. In the tending to steam on Into the Yaioo. and we endeavor to live up to it at all times. 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