The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-26
Explosives Meant for Royal
Family and Staff. Bel
gians Say.
THIRTY-FIVE INJURED
IN ATTACK BY NIGHT
Buildings Are Shattered as
Bombs Drop on Roofs
Hospital Nearly Hit.
Special Cabie Despatch TO Tue srN
ANTWERP, August %

ANTWERP, August %.
A Zeppelin, heralded only by the buzz
ing Of her motors. circled over Ant
werp at | O'Clock this morning Persons
who had not yet slept. heard the thrum-
ming and darted to their windows as a
streak of light shot out from an elongated
shadow in the sky. An instant later
there was n great crash as a projectile,
heavily laden with explosives. tore apart
n building 200 yards from the head
quarters Of the Belgian General STAFF
In the Hotel st. Antoine. which. appar-
emily. had been the target at which the
projectile was aimed
In all there were ten Of these streaks
OF light from the shadow / 900 feet
above the sleeping city and ten deafen-
ing crashes below. They came per-
haps half a minute apart.
Hardly had the sound Of the first eX-
plosion died away before rifles and
machine guns, constructed for defence
in Just such an emergency. were
trained on the great shadow overhead
and firing was begun on the Zeppelin
from all directions below The fire had
no effect and after the tenth projectie
was hurled upon the city the Zeppelin
rose and disappeared
When Antwerp took count of the
devastation caused by this midnight
prowler Il found that ten persons had
been killed. six of them women, AM
thirty had been wounded.
A child asleep in It's home in the fash
mangled; "A policeman on post in pub
lie square was blown to bits. The same
bomb which killed the policeman killed
six other persons as they slept in their
beds in houses adjoining the square,
all OF which were practically destroyed.
Houses even block away were struck
by flying fragments of the bomb.
Two maids, asleep on the top floor of
a physicians home in Rue Escrimes,
were killed by the bursting of one of the
projectiles on the roof Another OF the
missil struck the barracks in the Rue
Falcon, from which the troops had left
and which were occupied by refugees.
one OF these was killed and two were
wounded. man and his wife in their
home in the Rue Dubarry were terribly
injured by another Of the missiles which
exploded In their garden.
The purpose of this deathdealing in
vaslon by night is believed to have been
the slaughter Of the royal family The
members OF the Cabinet and the Cen
era, staff and the destruction Of the
barracks, banks and hospital. The
result was the killing of women and
non -combatants and a child, with i'm
mense property destruction.
In no case did any of the ten proIec
tiles, which appeared to be some sort OF
modern shrapne filled with a particu-
larly effective explosive, accomplish the
purpose for which II Is believed II was
hurled. Blu, the places where the ten
missiles fell were close to what is
believed 10 have been one of the OBJ
Jective points.
The city is terrified In expectation OF
more attacks
More than sixty houses were badly
damaged by the bombs.
The Antwerp correspondent of the
Morning Post says Major Seaman, an
American surgeon. who was the first
to attend the injured. was filled with
rage at the scenes he witnessed. He
said that In all of his eight campaigns.
including that against the Boxers in
China, he had never seen anything In
war so ruthless as the sight of three
young girls mutilated and a woman
about to become a mother killed in her
bed by these explosions.
Major Seaman declares that the
United States should Immediately join
other countries In eXactlng reparation
from Germany for such infamy.