Show TARGET PRACTICE SUCCESS DESPITE AWFUL ACCIDENT FORT FonT MONROE Va Vu July 22 Al AI Al Although though death had silenced ono one gun and eleven men were killed or fatally Injured by tho terrible explosion In tho the DC Do Russy shore battery hero here yesterday during during- the tho target firing on the imaginary hostile fleet which was passing up Hampton Roads to attack Washington tho the battle baUlo continued until the tho enemy was sunk Tho The practice which was the most ex- ex over ever attempted was completed with flattering success to the coast artillery ar ar- ar- ar tillery corps Within minutes after the first gun n had been fired the two cheesecloth targets thirty by sixty feet Ceet representing the tho vitals of oC the battleship and towed yards away awny were a sorry sight Ono One was not worth shooting at while tho other was waa badly riddled Firing was waa then at an end The Tho fatal result of or the first attempt to discharge No 1 I gun of or the De Do Russy battery battery battery bat bat- tery of or twelve Inch guns was Voas not known to the other batteries scattered for nearly nearly nearly near near- ly a mile along tho the shore until after tho the conclusion lon of oC the firing The men at theother tho the other two guns of or tho the De Do Russy battery did not know that an accident occurred but they kept on firing at ul the imaginary enemy In the channel three or four miles away just as if It it were wern in fact a 8 hostile fleet orlu to pass through to at attack at at- tack Washington or Baltimore Officers who witnessed the test say the tho practice demonstrated that a Scot fleet t- t t tempting to pass tho the fort could not riot have ha lived five minutes In such leh a a. lire Uro as was poured Into tho the towed targets |