Arizona republican., 1914-09-20
Famous Notre Dame at Rheims Suffers Severely During Three Days Ger man BOmbardment of the Town
REFUGE FOR
 GERMAN WOUNDED
Some Are Brought in from
 Hospital Nearby and
 Abbe AndrieuX Hangs Out Two Geneva Flags, Hoping to Save Edifice
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

LONDON, Sept 19-The famous Cathedral Notre Dame at Rheims was hit eight times by German shells dur ing the three days bombardment of the town. according to the Evening News correspondent, who viewed the fight ing from the cathedral tower Friday Directly the shells began to hit the cathedral in the morning. says the correspondent, some German wounded were brought in from the hospital
 nearby and laid on straw in the Nave while Abbe Andrieux and a Red Cross
 nurse pluckily went up to the tower and hung out two Geneva flags T believe shell which hit the build ing while I was there was a stray shell, for the German guns could hardly miss so huge mass, towering as it does, above the town. if they really wished to reach it. but the houses close were not so spared Shell after shell came Whistling toward us and smashed into houses, one of them just acress the cathedral square,
 l Under the cold drifting rain clouds one whole semi-circle of horizon. edged | by heights on which the German bat teries were mounted three miles away, was nothing but an inferno of bursting shells. The shells from the Germans landed anywhere within the space of a l square mile. Sometimes it was just
 outside the town that they fell. trying
 to find the French troops lying there in trenches waiting to go forward to at 1aI- hn prepared the way; sometimes it was l in the wool combing mills of an Eng | fish company, whose four chimney l stacks made them a conspicuous mark: some times it was right in the heart of the town itself.
 "Once. one of them. screaming | abominably, crashed through the tram
 sept roof of the other end of the ca
 thedral. I can never forget the note
 of mortified surprise and indignation
 that burst from the old Sacristan as l the shell smashed hole in a tall house close before our eyes.
 1 That's my house." he shouted, as if the German gunners three miles away could hear his protest
 I According to this correspondent, few civilians were killed because virtually
 every one was underground for three days. The great champagne cellars
 made barracks of refuge. The corrc-
 spondent visited the coadjutar bishop
 of Rheims. wbo met him on the cellar
 steps.
 Meanwhile adds the correspondent.
 ''the good nature shown the German wounded left in the city was aston ishing While shells were falling around
 the temporary hospital in the Nave I found French officers talking to them
 bringing wine and giving every con- sideratiOn. There was only one subject the Germans wanted to talk about. Was 1t not possible. they asked. to get
 a bigger red cross flag to put on the tower:
 We started back to Paris through a torrential rain and wind so strong that they seemed to be trying to initiate the fury of the men on the battle lines. A
 shell had fallen on a railway embank-
 ment close by and killed a refugee. It was miserable enough for us; what
 must it have been for those wretched land homeless refugees. whose burned
 out cottages we passed for mile after
 mile of blackened, ruined and forsaken
 countryside"