Chapter Vi. the Bombardment.

Cannonading the Barges--Silas Wain's Sad Death--The Little Bill Returns and Runs the Gauntlet--A Car of Fire Terrifies the Pinkertons and Drives Captain Rodgers to Flight--Amalgamated Officials Arrive--Dining Under Fire--Horrors in the Guardsmen's Quarters--The Killing of Detective Connors--Dynamite--Suicide on the Barges--Messages From Abroad--Congress Acts 65-77