The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-08-27
WORK
IS WROUGHT BY
THE zEPPELINS
TERROR REIGNs IN ANTWERP
LEST ATTACK BE REPEATED
EXPLOSIONS KILLED MANY
Guns are Mounted on Highest Build
ings and in Church Towers TO
Ward on the Destructive
German Ar Machines.
Rhetorical ospt. Lowe

Antwerp, Aug. %. - delayed in
transmission) - Antwerp is terror.
stricken. The appalling work of the
German Zeppelin which passed over
the city early today left a trail OF
death and destruction which horri.
fed everyone. The question which
is causing the greatest worry is when
will another one come. That this d.
rigible was destroyed means little.
1t fell before the guns of an outside
fort simply because the crew had lost
their senses of location and believed
they were far enough away from
Antwerp to attempt descent. They
had dropped far enough to get view
of the land and the Belgian guns
were able to reach their mark.
Guns Mounted in Church Towers.
Guns have been mounted in the
church spires and on top of the high.
est buildings, and have been manned
by the most expert Belgian gunners.
| Because of the danger of renewal
of the attack, it was announced that
the officers of the general staff have
been removed to a locality not re-
yealed, and that the royal family
would leave the palace and take
refuge elsewhere. The opinions of
the experts vary as to the explosive
used by the Germans. Some insist
that is was a special sort of schrap-
mel and that the bombs were filled
with a new explosive which added
greatly to their destructiveness. II
is declared they were discharged
from a special gun made for that pur-
pose Advocates OF this belief de.
| hn Chnllc nj mi tho
Germans aimed at the public build.
Iings but that the gunners were I'm.
able to get an accurate range from
tho dirigible.@
Terrible Destruction Wrought.
The bodies of the victims were ter.
ribly mangled. Four girls and their
lyoung mother were literally blown to
pieces. it is announced that the Bel.
gian government is sending a formal
protest to the neutral powers today
! protesting against the unwarranted
killing of unprotected noncombat-
ants. The women and children fear
to leave the houses. Even the Bel
gian soldiers are troubled. This
death dealing force from the air can
not be met by modern methods. BY
order of the Belgian staff, dozen
picked aviators with the best aero
planes available have been stationed
at the outlying forts to watch for any
further attacking German dirigibles.
5eIgans Will Die to Save City.
! These men have sworn to stop the
Germans even though they have to
ram the airships at the loss of their
lives Every Belgian soldier is des-
perate. The sights in the ruins OF
the houses and in the debris of the
streets appalled, those who saw them.
Bitter revenge is threatened and 1t
is feared reprisal may be taken on
any Germans who may be captured.
Twenty.six Reported Killed.
The civil population is naturally
much alarmed, though the greatest
enXiety is for the safety of King Al.
bert's household. A reconstruction
of the German bombs by military ex-
perts shows that they were ten
inches in diameter with an envelope
one inch thick. Their percussion
caps were loaded with piorite 1t is
believed that the work of the airship
was assisted by local spies for whom
the military is making a painstaking
search.
Another Antwerp correspondent
reports that the airship's trip across
the city occupied twenty minutes.
She was drifting down the wind with.
out using the propellors lest their
noise should warn the city. This cor
respondent says that the deaths due
, to the activity of the Zeppelin mum.
Der twenty-siX.
ESnIosiona Mere Terrifin
The destruction caused by the pro.
jectiles was incredible in extent and
horror Capt. William of tn United
States coast artillery, here with mon.
ey from the cruiser Tennessee, re-
! ports the projectiles used were some
3 form OF shrapnel loaded with terrible
/ new explosive fired from a gun.
: One shell struck in the middle OF
+ the public weighing square, which is
: about the same size as Gramercy
:, park in New York. A policeman in
! the square was blown to pieces. Six
e persons sleeping in adjacent houses
= were killed in their beds. Every build.
y ing facing the square was partly OF
u completely demolished and every
> house in the radius of a block was
. riddled like sieve.
q Another she'll burst on the roof o.
= a physicians house in the Rue Els
4. crimer, killing two maids who were
ID asleep upstairs.
n A shell fell in the garden on tn,
ly Rue du Barry, terribly wounding
Is man and his wife. Another shell Eel
1t on the barracks on the Ru Falcon
20 killing one and wounding two. For
ry tunately the regiment had Just legl
OF A child was mangled in fashionabl
residence Of the Ru Justice. a.. =.