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Updated: June 26, 2025
Many, many burdens of bombs had been dropped into the sea as plane-fleet after plane-fleet went by. The sea exploded in monstrous columns. Ton, half-ton and two-ton bombs began to detonate, fifty fathoms down. The Mekinese duty-officer below had just learned that the spies' signalling device was cut off, when a detonation lifted the hull of the Mekinese cruiser and shook it violently.
Down below, where he was wont to look for the white top of the wagon, there was nothing but scattered wreckage! He heard the sound now that had awakened him the detonation of a charge of dynamite! There was no need to go closer to learn the rest of the story. Bowers's face twisted in a queer grimace. He cried brokenly in a grief that can be understood fully only by the lonely: "Pore little Mary!
It was plain that Captain Glossop was bent upon capturing the survivors. Small boats and the Australian cruiser were now probably a mile from the burning vessel, and the, Sylph had started forward also to pick up some of the German sailors. At this moment the flames reached the magazine of the Emden. There was a blinding flash, a terrific detonation.
His long roer was laid over a knot in the trunk its muzzle pointed at the forehead of the advancing elephant his eye gleamed through the sights the loud detonation followed and a cloud of smoke for a moment hid everything from his view.
He had scarcely made his somewhat hasty reply to the captain, which had been dictated by this bitter disappointment, than he regretted having done so. He therefore left the deck to go in search of his superior officer with the generous intention of comforting him, if it were possible to do so. But the captain had disappeared, and three minutes had not elapsed when a detonation was heard.
Almost at the same instant, however, he heard Pepe's voice calling out: "Come back, Fabian! come back! What is the use of " A third detonation seemed to cut short the speech of the ex-coast-guard as if he had fallen by the bullet while no voice of Fabian was heard to make reply.
Through a pirate screen it went, and under the terrific blast of its detonation one entire panel of the stricken battleship vanished, crumpled and broken. It should have been out, cold but, to the amazement of the observers, it kept on fighting with scarcely lessened power!
The detonation of the thunder and the glare of lightning through an occasional rift in the vaporous wall proclaimed the continued fury of the tempest upon the surface of the sea; but we, far above it all, rode in comparative ease upon the upper gale.
The silence which followed the detonation of the exploding torpedo was almost equally horrifying. It lasted for perhaps two seconds, to be followed by the screams and moans of the wounded, the cursing of the men and the hoarse commands of the ship's officers. They were splendid they and their crew. Never before had I been so proud of my nationality as I was that moment.
The loud detonation, and explosion of fiery fragments that followed, however, was rather discomposing to the nerves, and unfavourable for restful slumber to the weary warriors. Another cruel refinement of war was still more disconcerting. In order, if possible, to ignite the barracks, the gunners of Fort Niagara kept firing at intervals red-hot cannon balls.
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