The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-16

ton Is very fine If you come out whole
-as Dame Froehard and the children
did. II you ask Dame Froehard what
she thinks Of the success Of aeropianes
or dirislbles In warfare, she says:
HWell, they are very noisy, but !
don't think they'll kill many people.
never heard such noise in my life
when our roof blew of, but the bomb
seemed to explode upward. wonder
that II didn't blow back and hit the
balloon"
It happened at 100 4. m, August
25. Dame Froehard and the children
have rooms on the second floor OF
narrow three story building, right In
the center Of the town. Half block
away 10 Antwerp's Wall street and
stock exchange. one block in another
direction is the palace Of King Al
bert. II was shortly after midnight
when the late bed soers in Antwerp
first heard the noise in the sky. They
rushed into tho streets to look up.
Every star was In its place. AZ hrst
some stars blink oddly, one after
another. Long slow biinks far apart.
Finally overhead across the "miiky
way" as the Antwerp copper told me-,
a great black form slipped through
the sky, not silently, but making a
whirr like giant taxicab. Soon IL
was over the city. only few saw
the first bomb drop. What they real
Iy saw was the spark Of the fuse.
Way up there in the sky . brawny
two or three Of
them, lifted great shrapnel shell
over the side OF the car and let il
drop down, down onto the city. Tens
OF thousands Of little children who
had said their prayers that night,
Of mothers who had heard
the prayers and had tucked the chill
dren under covers and kissed them,
were sleeping down there fauItless.
I wonder II the men In the sky with
the place tho children pray to, above
them, ever thought Of the chiidrens'
..now lay me- 40 they lifted the
bombs in place and let them go. Ono
bomb was for the palace where the
king and queen were sleeping. II hit
within a block Of the building, which
is pretty good workmanship when
you are dropping things nearly 4
mile. Airmen must have planned out
by maps and the lighted streets be-
low Just what roofs were covering
the KING and queen. Their bomb hit
the roof beneath which Dame Fro
chard slept. Four more bombs in
different parts Of the town exploded
quickly. The Zeppelin was eireIins
over the town. Then 1t went away
through the night, marking its path
way by its noise and its shadow
against the stars. Patrol wagon and
moraue wagons and soldiers all DASH
cd hither and thither. Telephone
calls came into the police station,
from the water front and from the
where Dame Froehard's house
stood. The police found Dame Fro
chard and the children covered with
plaster and broken boards with moth
Ing much but the sky above them,
and the front wall Of the building
IyIno In tho street. How they escap-
ed 10 inexplIcabIe. The eeisians told
mo that ten persons were killed In
four different sections Of town that
night, one little child and two women
AMONG them. The rest were water
front men. Dame Frochard, who 10
efehty-four, and knows many things,
told me that maybe It was because
they had not said their "now ] lay
me" az she and the grandchildren had
done. Now there are no more lights
in the streets Of Antwerp and even
curtains Of lighted houses must be
drawn.
THE PROTEST COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1e.-The COM
nIssloners from King Albert Of Bel
glum sent hero to protest against Al
legged German atrocities and particu.
!arlv the destruction Of Louvain, had
an engagement formally TO present
their memorial to President Wilson
this afternoon.
Accompanied by Minister Havenlth
Of Belgium, the five seIsians arrived
early today. Plans for their reeep-
ton made by Secretary Of State Bryan
Included formal introduction before
noon, a meeting at the state depart
mont this afternoon and their conduct
to the white house by Bryan. They
had an autograph letter from the Bel
CLAN king to the president and for
NAL list Of alleged violations Of inter-
national rules Of war, mostly prevl-
ousIy published.
President Wilson, II was reported
today postponed replying to Kaiser
WIIheIm's eabIegram protesting
nd Duffy's ALWAYS