Show ATTACK IN FORCE ON rORT MONROE Fere Pierce Bombardment o b de t i if Is Stretched SP NOT o t MARINES CAPTURE A SIGNAL STATION Fert Monroe V Va Jun June frt first k I ha eee Monroe tok tokI took I Iare i Ing at 7 E Eight ht f of tb the biggest ships hip of Admirl Dick ili dr r nl 1 a an arc or a l lItH ItH betwee Capes Jenn Henry mt and Charle Al All of tel zhe J d for for the tue fort and ad adIn In iU at sIo speed The foring forming operation r air although bugh far fal ou out was plin plain 13 11 vIsible Id ad eer everything was ready in ill ample uple tm time to I t tie the attack The Thet first t gun Wd was at and for hal half RH an a long bombardment nt Continued d Th hi did not com I r thul Bug which is ten tell miles irom t the h fIt Th The Jeet consisted of t the Te Texas xa and Hartford four of the and t two 0 smaller mall r ships Thi The I r Puritan wa was rc d in the fleet that she he had succeed j e oil in getting of off th the mud at Point I i da day LOOkout where she wa Was fast Jester yester yesterday Was Not Inspiring Because of the long range ad and the theof use of to indict indicate the the fre fire the d demonstration robbed of thi was spec spectacular f features which have character I land the night attacks After a half hour of oC firing during during which the ships w were re advancing the they lurne turned in a broad I circle slid and proceeded back frol trout their Starting point and were soon out of Yie view Th The is taken to corn com ll ply with that part of te the exercise exercises re requiring quiring a rul by In daylight to do de develop the capacity antI and accuracy of time the al and big bib gun gull and mortar fr fire of the batteries Marines Landed While Admirl Dickins was gathering I the later larger unis unIts of his fleet in the lower Chesapeake lt night he was not idl idle at the Washington and Baltimore de do I fens At Forts Washington and Hunt things were exceedingly exceeding Iely lively The Siren landed a company of marines at I Marshall Hal hall Monday which imme proceeded to the capture army signal staton station at a that place Previous I to this the Siren had made several at attempt attempts seera tempt tempts to cut th the cable the means of I between Fort Forts Hunt and Washington and according to the of its artier artillery fre frethe fire the ship had ben been out of oC action se sev several eral times Protest Was Made MadeI I It was for this Jason reason that a protest was wa made by the signal sta station ta ton tion personnel an and a cae case for future settlement by the jint joint board haS ha been beena a amade made a e B Besides sid l ding at Marshall I Hal Hall ather another landing was made from the Siren on the Fort ort Hunt side of time the Potomac at what Is known as White Vite I houe house just beIo below the the fort The mon monitor monitor Terror and th the gunboat Siren have ben been r reported ported as proceeding down the Potomac I It is bel believed eyed that the whole feet fleet will demonstrate agail against Fort Monroe toni tonight ht The gunboat Hornet lande landed at Od Old t Point C Comfort rt short shortly after noon today and Lieutenant at once pro proceeded r ceede to the headquarters of General Wade bearing Ipe from Admiral I It was announced that the landing which was made tinder the fag flag of truce had to do entirely with the of Midshipman Luis Louis L who was was drowned of off Annapolis on the I The tug Standish wl will be dis dispatched dispatched patched to drag for Cor the bod body |