The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-17
II Persons Killed, 200 Are
Wounded, While Residents
Flee>TerrOr Stricken From
City to Inland.
SOLDIERS ON DUTY
Shells Dropped Over Whole
City Kill Persons in Bed,
Wreck Hotels, Stores and
Hospitals.
BY LAWRENCE ELSTON,
itaff Correspondent The lnternationa
News Service.

SCARBOROUGH. England, Dec. II.
)ne hundred and fifty buildings in
Marlborough are destroyed or dam
ged as a result Of the bombardment
|,y German battleships, and the cas-
alties amount to fifty-one killed and
wo hundred wounded, according to a
areful overnight canvass made by the
uthorities.
Streets that, forty-eight hours ago,
| yere undiSturbed only by the peaceful
raffic and routine everyday affairs,
re now silent Hotel buildings, dwell
ngs, churches and manufacturing
lants are ripped with jagged holes
nd are blackened with fire.
Residents Flee City.
Many of the forty thousand residents
ave fled to Hull or Durham, or York,
r other towns out of the reach of the
uns Of German ships. which seem to
q able to penetrate like phantoms the
:ritish fleet that lies in the North
ca.
From the upper hill of terraces, upon
hich the city rises in crescent shape
ON the sea, one can see great actlv-
y along the harbor front of this city.
trong earthworks are being con-
ructed by soldiers, behind which long
ange guns will be mounted.
She'll Whole City.
| The Germans spread their shells in
iscriminately and all parts of the city
ere reached. The Royal hotel and
lie Balmoral hotel were raked by pro-
actiles Shells struck the Scarborough
ospital, where twenty wounded Brit
h soldiers were lying.
The residence of the Rev. Hon. Rus
I'll Rea. member of parliament. was
rocked and Mr.. and Mrs. REQ had a
arrow escape from death. The
Hiding Of the Friendly Society Lodge
as gashed by projectiles, and two
omen inmates were buried under the
abris. They We're rescued by sol
ers and policemen, however, before
aoy sutfOCated.
Bombard Station.
Several shells dropped near the
ortheastern Railway station and frag-
ents fell within few yards OF a
rror-stricken throng. \ number of
ops were wrecked. One of the
bundled residents, Arthur Wood, head
ERIK OF the Scarborough Electric COM
any, was struck by a fragment Oh
ell. ut began very SUDDENLY he
id. Il do not know haw long it last
for ! became unconscious after l
rs struck The ships could not have
en- more than two miles off shore,
d one of them was not more than
lie away
Children Killed.
\ number of children were killed
d wounded as was the case in Har-
pool, where fifteen school boys were
He'd and wounded. Some victims
re were killed in their sleep. This
Is true in the case of a woman and
two children. At one place in the
sdence district, a servant was just
aching for letter from passing
stman, when shell exploded, a
lgment killing the girl as she stood
tn outstretched hand.
There were at least two men-Of-War
T the coast. although the fog was sc
.nse that the Germans could not be
stinguished plainly. One of these was
battle cruiser of heavy type; another
rs an armored cruiser.
Germans Show Daring.
The Germans stole into the bay and
ok up their position without exciting
lspfcion. They came nearer to the
err than even the British ships haC
,ne An old fisherman, who holds {
acquaintance with the currents OF
e harbOr, said no warship command
had ever dared to navigate so
ose as the Germans did. The Ger
MS must be given credit for daring
d GOODNESS. They were in hostile
tiers, but acted with holiness that
LIS marvellous.