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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The bombardment of Galveston. (search)
tardly deed ! Several large shells exploded high in the air, the pieces flying in all directions, far and near. One piece traversed the roof of Mr. Tankersley's house, one square in the rear of Mr. Brown's and Gen. Nichols' residence, on Broadway. It went through the pantry, next to the kitchen, and through the outer plank wall into the yard. We heard of a piece falling at south side of the Public Square, penetrating the roof and floor of Mr. J. Dykeman's portice; an entire bomb at Mr. Close's foundry, a piece going to the 1st Ward Market, and one shell burying itself near Smyth's Garden; but none, fortunately, hitting any one, though some narrow escapes were had. We were shown a 32-pound ball that was said to have been picked up in the street near Broad way and Tremont. We have been informed, also, that some of the shells were found unexploded; but we cannot hear that any of the gallant Alden's missiles came nearer than the further part of Mr. League's new hotel lot, on