Evening journal., 1914-09-15
Zeppelins, New Death Dealers,
Make War More Horrible

and out over the outskirts OF the
towns. There's a sickening feeling Of
utter helplessness in witnessing such
a sight and mingled with this feeling
there is a fascination in the thought
that such a thing is not superhuman;
that up there in the sky are men,
human beings, working, carrying out
orders, making maps of the city,
tracing the streets, pulling levers, ad-
iusting greasy machinery, turning
steering wheels and lighting fuses OF
bombs that are intended to kill men,
women and children.
/ remembered what a great Belgian
Statesman had said only that after
noon: "You know only two Christ
masses ago, Emperor William. Of
Germany, and King Albert, of Bel
gium, spent part of the holiday sea-
son together. King Albert's baby
daughter loved the Emperor so much,
because he played with her, that she
cried to get onto his lap and was in
consulate when his visit was ended.
How can he order his Zeppelins. now,
to drop bombs on the house where this
y
and father and mother are sleeping,
can't understand"
Another spark fell. and there was
a third explosion. Then new sound
I filled the air 1t began far away. It
was the rattle of rifles, thousands Of
them. The firing grew nearer and
! louder. There we've sharp orders. I'm
der my window tile soldiers began to
shoot, the flashes lighting my room.
They held their rifles straight upward.
| The sound grew louder and louder.
within a minute the din was indescrib-
able. Thirty thousand soldiers were
/ shooting, each as fast as he could fire
with his magazine rifle. The orders
were not to try to hit the Zeppelin un-
less II was overhead. Every mans
/ duty was to shoot straight up
They were filling the air with steel.
They were putting mp fence of metal
| a mile high around ihc city and palace.
! Tley filled the ai- with death to any
thing that entered the zone above An.
werp. The big guns in the forts ar 1und
/ the city began to boom. Aeroplane ma
chine guns mounted on automobiles
dashed about the streets, adding their
3 burning, rattling sound to the din. II
was a million Fourth of Julys rolled
| into one.
In the midst of it ALL there were
eight more of the big bass booms Of
the voice of the Zeppelin bombs,
| in quick succession. To the last,
in the midst OF the bullets and super
\ human confusion, the supermen in the
/ Zeppelin had tried to stick to the job.
| Two Of the eight bombs fell within 20
and 30 meters of the Red Cross hos
| pitals; the other six beat a Gargantua-
Ian tattoo on the big wireless station,
which the airmen were evidently trying
to destroy. The holes in the earth
about the station were each the size
and shape of cistern.
! Ten minutes of firing had made the
Antwerp sky unhealthful. As the last
! batch of bombs went over the sides Of
/ the car, the balloon arose and sped
away from the city. The firing died
out slowly. Half an hour later the
Zeppelin was reported at a point II
miles away.
Two children, three women and five
men had been iniured-though none
seriously-and three nouses destroyed
Nearly all the terrified families of th'
city had taken refuge in the cellars foi
week before the same Zeppelin hal
bombarded the town and killed twelv,
persons. The bullets fred by the sol
diers came falling fr'm the sky, bui
aside from breaking skylehts they
caused no injury. Folks going to worl
! this morning picked them up for sou
venirs.