Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-30
HERRICK ESCAPES
BOMBS D2OPPEDBY
GERMAN IN PARIS
kaiser'S Aviator Shells Former
French Capital.
MANY BUILDINGS SHATTERED
American Ambassador and Aid Miss
Explosion by Five Minutes-Aged
Lawyer Killed and His Grand
daughter Is Wounded.

Paris, Sept. 2S.-The latest exploit
Of the German air forces nearly Gre
sted vacancies in the United States
diplomatic service.
A Taube aeroplane, profiting by the
Rutumnal haze, flew unperceived over
Paris at 11:15 in the morning until it
was nearly above the Eiffel tower. AS
1t reached this point the Taube de-
scended to within a thousand yards of
the ground and the air lieutenant drop
ped bomb arranged like a shrapnel
projectile, which fell in the Avenue du
TrocaderO, at the corner of the Rue
FTeycinet, making a hole in the maca-
dam roadway. In exploding it killed
an aged solicitor and severely wounded
his granddaughter walking home with
him from church The mans stomach
was ripped open by the shrapnel bull
let's and the girls legs were practically
severed above the knees.
Herrick Narrowly Escapes.
The spot where the bomb exploded
was 200 yards from the chanceIlery of
the American embassy, at 5 Rue de
Chaillot. Ambassador Herrick and
Arthur H. Frazier, the second secre-
tary Of the embassy, walked over the
spot where the bomb exploded at
1890 on their way to the chancellery,
and, returning in an open motor car.
passed over the same point at 11:1O,
thereby missing the bomb by five min
utes
Four other Bombs Dropped.
Three other bombs fell in the Tro-
cadero section. One landed in the Rue
Vinuse, near the Benjamin Franklin
statue. and the residence of Georges
Glen. enceau; another in the Rue Ma
rignan of the Champs Elysees, and
the third in the rue Desbordes Val
more, near the. Chateau de la Muette.
the residence of the Empress Jose
phine. All these bombs exploded too
soon 10 do great damage.
The German aviator apparently flew
at height of about ten thousand feet
and was invisible in the dense mist.
When the bombs began to shower on
the fashionable residences at 1880
O'Clock the noise was deafening, re-
sembling a bombardment.
Princes Mansion Shattered.
The first bomb dropped, the one
which landed in Avenue du TrOcadero,
wrought havoc. A few feet away the
facade of the Prince of Monaco's man
sion was shattered by grape shot from
the exploding bomb. The mansion was
unoccupied.
The American church, about a hun
dred yards distant, was shaken to its
foundation by the deafening explosion.
Frank Gould's residence and the statue
Of General Washington, also near by,
were within range, but escaped un-
damaged, and the same can be said
Of the chancellory of the American en-
bassy and Ambassador Herrick's man.
sion, where pictures and furniture
we're shaken by the force of the ex-
plosion, as if an earthquake had visit
ed the capital.
While the police rushed to remove
the victims the German aviator flew
off.
The bomb evidently was intended to
destroy the wireless apparatus on the
Eiffel tower, but, owing to the great
height at which he was flying and the
mist, the pilot missed his target by
several hundred yards.
North Belgium Raided.
Ostend, Belgium, Sept. 2S.-A Ger
man Zeppelin made raid over big
portion of northern Belgium at night
and during the day.
Five bombs were dropped in Client,
where a hospital was damaged, and
an old man was killed
At Thielt the gas factory was de-
stroyed.