Show AT alexandria RIA the eight english ironclads Iron d D dismantle the egyptian forts arabi pashas men Sho showing a valorous resistance uy by TV U telegraph to the HERALD alexandria july 11 the tho bombardment bar dment commenced at this mornine morning the iron dads superb sultan and alexandria enga engaged gred and und totally destroyed the fort pharos and the I 1 lighthouse ch the batteries which are at the entrance to t the new nev port were intended to dominate the approach to the tile new harbor the flag shins ships invincible penelope took up commanding positions inside the reefa reefs and assisted from outside by the Ten Teme raire attacked with destructive tive effect th the estro strong ng position t ion of fort mex with the lighthouse and shore batteries the inflexible was stationed BO so as to command the lighthouse batteries fort pharos and fort mex at the same time and was thus ina in a position to operate cooperate co both avith lie the division outside and that inside the reefs the tile gun vessels bittern Bil lern condor beacon Deco yand agnet attacked the I 1 Har about batteries at ai the entrance to tile harbor barbar and taking close and de range soon silenced them after which they run in and shelled fort mex on the southern side to the entrance to the anchorage or outer harbor the invincible under cover of her own guns and those of the bittern then landed a parly party of blue jackets and marines who entered fort and blew up the big guns the bombardment practically ceased at noon though some heavy guns at this hour are still shelling fort napoleon a largo large work situated at the southern the inner harbor and dominating the town docs does not re reply fall on the whole the egyptians fought 0 t their batteries with more determination than had been expected f several everal li of the earthworks earthworms earth works behind which the guns were mounted were found to be mere heaps of sand LO LONDON july 11 one shot went clear through the inflexible LONDON july 11 A correspondent on board the U S steamer quinne ba baug sa says the egyptians fought splendidly and the tile ships behaved magnificently agi ficen 1 I Y the Quinne bauff had anchored d only five cables on the port beam of the Teme raire and had a fine view of the contest shells from the forts frequently fell quite close A corr correspondent e dent on the invincible telegraphs telegraph s the fort and batteries on the tile r sea face are a lacap of ruins the egyptians stuck to their es guns until the forts were crumbling the aim of the tile eg egyptian gunners was chiefly against t the I 1 inflexible and they fired principally principally fally round shot hot their elevation was bad ad the invincible was seldom hit the armor of the superb was penetrated the egyptian officers set a good example to the men often jun jumping ping upon the parapets to see the effects of their fire the tile party of marines which landed from the invincible to blow up fort ilex mex saw several dead the inside fort of the egyptians had no shells shell which fact accounts for the small number of casualties on the british vessels at this evening the Ir helicon elicon approached the invincible with officio bials from Der pasha who bad had been trying to find the tile flagship all ni night hat with aletter from the ministry to seymour mour to offer to dismount the guns almiral admiral seymour seymo lur replied the timo time for negotiations was passed the has ras el tin palace took fire dur I 1 ing g the bombardment and was still b burning at the time of this dispatch men were called for on board tb the invincible at 1 p m to go 0 ashore and spike the guns of fort vex mex although t the e work was dangerous as troops might have been lying behind the fort there were plenty of volunteers twelve men were chosen and placed in charge of three officers alie theland landing party were obliged to swim through the surf they landed unopposed and after bursting the guns with I 1 gun in cotton returned without any ft casualties all acs ics the penelope was struck five times and had one gun disabled the jn in flexible 1 ile was hit many times but only six shots pe penetrated tr abed the armor the monarch was not hit owing to her moving about after r the action was over the whole fleet drew off from shore and tho the vessels approached each other LONDON july 11 A dispatch dated alexandria cays says the egyptians could have done much execution had their aiming been less excited it is difficult to describe the excitement of the sailors each shot was watched with great anxiety and every good one cheered some shots from the 81 flew higher and must have damaged the town LONDON july 11 A dispatch from la goletta reports that the american consul received orders to establish reestablish re the consulate at tunis LA VALETTA malta july 11 the british tro troop ship tamar T mr with 1000 marines a and the appa spanish n ash frigate carmen sailed today to day for alexandria NEW YORE YORK july 11 the heralds special al dated on board the invincible has these details at a quiet order was passed round the deck to load with common shell and A gleam of satisfaction shone on the mens faces at 7 the signal was made to the alexandria to open the ball by firing one gun A heavy boom came across the water then there was an anxious pause would the egyptians answer or would they evacuate the forts no sound came from ft ada but in iu the batteries opposite there we could sec see men loading the guns they would fight the order wae was i given to commence independent fir ing and the signal was run up for the fleet to begin a general engagement A deafening ea fening salvo from 9 five inch guns a went from the side of the antin invincible tle while overhead ten Norden feldt guns in the tops swelled the din which burst forth from all the ships the bank of smoke which at once arose like a wall from our ship prevented me from seeing the result of ol 01 our fire but from the tops it was seen that the shell had struck rather low and the sights were raised from 1300 to I 1 1500 yards The Monarch andrene lope lop harboth had both t 1 w works or k a el close ose at I 1 hand i a n d an and d the roar of their heavy beavy guns to the ceaseless rattle of their galling gatling and Norden feldt machines and the rush of rockets which the monarch was discharging added to the sound of our own guns made upa up a deep continuous din which is impossible to des describe and was most bewildering to hear in III any momentary interval the sound of puns guns from the other division of the fleet told that they also were hard at work hardy a midshipman posted in the in maintop sig signaled the direction of the stroke roke t of the shell and their accuro cy odthe of the fire improved meantime the shots were coming thick and fast their aim being directed chiefly at the penelope and inflexible they were firing principally round shots 20 minutes after the first gun over the fort the royal braces were shot away immediately after the shot penetrated for forward warda a splinter wounding a stoker severely at this time they appeared to have lotour got our range pretty accurately and round and conical shot whistled thick between the masta masts I 1 went round the ship and found the men fighting at the main deck guns all stripped to the waist between each shot they had to sit down and NN wait nit until the smoke cleared They were very anxious to know the result of their work and asked eager questions of me as to what could be seen above but I 1 could tell them little for the smoke hung like a veil between us and the shore tomorrow to morrow wo go in to engage the forts within the harbor outride outside of us arc are merchant ships and foreign war vessels most of which will reenter the harbor after we have destroyed tile last of the threatening forts over alexandria lica lies a cloud of battle smoke partly caused no doubt by the smoke of the tile guns which the wind has not yet blown clear of tile town and partly from that arising from the burning palace no message of news lias has reached us from the town and wo we know nothing of what is passin passing there what loss lias has been suffered suffered or what feelings clines fc have been excited among the soldiers or tile populace by the events of the day the last news which reached us before the fight commenced was to the effect that the tile nationals nationaL 9 were going to cut the wire with india and were considering the advisability of blocking the suez canal the events of today to day allow that the determination expressed ly ity arabi and his party to oppose the fleet to the death has not so far been a vain boast I 1 think they fought their guns to the last but the fire of the fleet was so crushing crus liing and our metal so superior as to make their resistance they appeared ta to possess no shell which was fortunate for us forlina for had they used these instead of round shot casualties would have been much much larger As itis it is our success although not bloodless has bas been achieved at a much smaller cost than could have been expected from the formidable nature of the forts we had to attack the most interesting incident was the fight between the gunboat Condor commander lord chas Beres Le resford rord with theA gerni fort his ilis little vessel went close under tinder the guns of the fort and opened a tremendous fire but was unable to silence it the admiral then signaled other gunboats gun boats to assist in the engagement on board 11 II 31 S invincible alexandria lex tuesday p in the erand ir artillery tillery combat winch which raged all day ended in a complete success the object for which we fought has been attained the forta forts and batteries on the sea face of alexandria are a hea heap 1 of ruins considering the extent and nature odthe of the works tho the weight and number of guns mounted and the dogged pluck with which the egyptians fought the result has been attained with a surprisingly small lo 10 loss as of life the total of casualties in tile fleet being five killed and twenty seven wounded it is difficult so soon after the en on write a cool and collected narrative of the day the dead calm which lias has succeeded the tremendous roar of artillery which has gone on for forso so many hours seems strange and unnatural we can scarcely realize that the first great sea fight with artillery I 1 of modern type has been fought an and won at twenty minutes past six the ships of the squadron signaled all ready but still further delay was necessary all the egyptian officers carrying the admirals reply to the ministry will be put ashore the smoke from the very beginning of the engagement was so dense we could see nothing of the effect which our fire was producing nor of what the enemy were doing but soon after we began a sharp scream followed by the up leaping of a column of spray to the seaward as a shot struck tile water made it clear that the enemy were replying to our own salute soon orders were passed to caaso the firing until the smoke had cleared away the wind and sun were both in tho the favor and it was some time before the veil was lifted sufficiently for a glimpse of the shore and this was lost in an instant when the tile guns again opened fire and bothin nothing could be seen from the tile deck the monarch had silenced the small fort opposite to her and set fire to the building dismounted the guns and low has joined against the formidable works of fort mex allex the egyptians in that battery still replied briskly but although several times struck none of the shots penetrated our battery waterline but where the armor protected her the shot scattered showers of splinters through the ships one shot struck the quarter deck close to lambton by 0 our fire silenced all the guns in fort alex with the exception of four heavy rifled pieces the theeo sound und of whose conical shot was easily distinguishable gui these four guns gave us great trouble they were under cover and the tile gunners stuck well to their work tho the Teme raire was therefore signaled to come to the assistance of the three ships engaged it was difficult to hit lit the tile exa exact at bioc locality the guns gulls were seen d dimly imly and occasionally sio nally through tj alie le smoke oab but u t by 1030 only three returned tb the fire the guns were concentrated on the Invincible flad must have been worked by the best beat gunners for they struck us every time often quita quite on the val wal ter line before they silenced cad we had six men wounded one had one foot torn off by round shot the tile others by splinters will by 11 the fort was in ruins y with I 1 th the guns all silenced the monarch ach had been signaled to go close to tho the shore and dismantle the fort thoroughly at close quarters an hour earlier for the I 1 laying two miles away had opened Y fire 0 are u upon 0 n the ships engaged with fort mex x the shots all fell short and we took no notice of the attack but lord ord beresford who commanded comm andea tile gunboat condor stood in and pluckily engaged enraged the tile fort with his little craft the file gunboat beacon came in and joined him ma kingan excellent practice on the fort whose shots fell thick around the boats and passed several times between tile masts but never touching them its firo fire at last was silenced bythe by the plucky little gun boats meantime the ships of the tile other division of the squadron steadily cn engaged forta forts pharos kas ras el tin an and d ada the inflexible having gone to aid the sultan S sherb b and nd alexandria with her fire T the I 1 e egyptian gly a 1 Uan batteries replied steadily and rapidly and tile roar of the guns was almost continuous while the rush of ol the heavy projectiles jec tiles through th the 0 air air resembled the low rumble of distant thunder fort pharos early showed allowed signs of heavy batterine batt bat crins terina to which it was exposed one ono ortho of alio towers was knocked down and the fort soon case ceased firing altogether while the tile fire from the ships also greatly slackened at 1030 the khedives Khe Klie dives ras el tin or harem barem palace lying between t the io forts took firmand fire and at tile time I 1 write is burning the fight was nearly over all along the line by 12 although the ships all continued firing in order to complete the dismantlement of the forts several small magazines in tho the course of tho the afternoon were blown up lap by our shells a largo one in fort ada being destroyed by a lucky shot from the inflexible of the ships engaged ga edwith with fort acx alie penelope lo 10 pe was struck five times and had eight men wounded and one gun di afa abbed the invincible was struck many times but only six shots penetrated her the fore yard was struck and the royal brace cut away IVO ve had bad six wounded the monarch was not hit once probably owing to her ability to shift ground while w hile on oil the other hand she was iwin in movement and the practice of her guns was inferior to that of the invincible up till 5 the ironclads iron kept up occasional fire but the forts did not reply during the latter part of the afternoon ono one nang w ing of the tile palace is in ashes this was inevitable since the palace lies behind the forts pharos and and ada I 1 have only been able to write fully of the doings of that portion of tha the fleet with which I 1 was present by signal however we know their casualties are as follows the superb wag struck several times and from where 0 wo we now lie we can see her armor penetrated et the killed and wounded are as follows superb 1 killed I 1 wounded alexandria 1 killed 3 wounded sultan 2 killed 7 wounded inflexible edible 1 killed 2 wounded invincible none killed 6 wounded penelope len elope none killed 8 wounded thus the grand total of casualties were we ro 6 5 killed and 27 wounded this evening the whole fleet drew off the shore |