The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-03
BOMBARDMENT
ENGLISH WOMAN WRITES OF
GERMAN CRUISER RAID.
Wirless Stations, Railway Stations,
Gas Works, Water Works, Electric
Station, Hotels and Churches Hit.

| A gentleman OF charleston mas just
received letter from lady friend
| living in Scarborough, England, CIV
| ing an account of the terrible expe-
| rience they had during the lombard
ment of that city on December 16 by
the German warships.
Writing from Pickering, in York
shire, she ays: LAS you will see, we
are refugees, for our home is no long
er safe We were in the danger zone,
for both the wireless, the government
one, and private one in the new de-
pot, which, as you will remember, is
just beside US, and which the ad-
miralty commandeered at the begin
ming of the war as an alternative
state.
Had they known or had a notion
that Scarborough would be shelled I
think. they would not have done so,
as it is one Of the densely populated
parts. Of course, the enemy went
for the wireless stations, the railway
stations, the gas works, water works,
electric power stations, the churches,
hospitals, work house and hotels
HUC1C SO1A1SI0 "ClC 4Ucl IC1 GU
Everywhere environing these places is
terribly wrecked; other places were
left pretty much untouched.
"All around US shells fell and sew
eral people were killed. 1t was hor-
ribe thing to hear shells whizzing
over the houses and then striking
something and exploding, and not
know when our home might go, and
we had no cellar to shelter in We
were just going to sit down to break
fast when the shelling begun, mother
was in bed. -
I'VE helped her up, got on warm
outdoor things, collected our money
and jewelry and the animals and
were all ready to leave if we had to.
Fortunately we escaped. 1t was
dreadful after it finished, to see the
stretchers going about collecting the
dead and wounded
-Four people were killed in one
family quite close to US. We picked
up bits of shells in our street, and
houses just behind US in the park
were struck. Certainly it was most
awful experience, and one I hope not
to face again.
''It was CALLING to be shelled at
and to be totally undefended. We
are well barricaded against land
ing, ETC., but the shelling was a bolt.
from the blue. One church is fear
fully damaged structually; also hole
through the roof, and Window
blown out. Several members of our
congregation have been killed.
"Our postman was killed, and the
maid to whom he was handing let
ter. 1t was a dreadful sight to, see,
the people running past our house by
the hundreds into the country-some
in night clothes with just a shawl
around them. Carts, wheelbarrows'
and trans, all with people-invalids
and little children One woman ran
with her baby to a friend Of ours, five
miles away, and when they took the
baby from her it was dead, killed by a
bit of shrapnel or shell.
1--WE are glad to be here in COM
parative safety, unless an invasion
occurs; then we shall have to move
again. 1t brings war very near when
you never know how soon you have
to take to the road and leave all you
care for behind you. This war is diff
ferent from any other and so deadly.
''The artillery We .pons are awful.
People say there never can be an
other war like it. Ernest has been
having fortnight's instruction on
tho m Machine o1,nc I,afora oo;no to th
front. which may be at any time. We
do dread it so. So very few officers
ever come back again, for the toll of
life is terrible out there.
"How fortunate you are to be so
far removed from wars alarms!
Mother has been suffering from the
shock, but is getting better. We don't
know when we shall be able to go
home, or if we shall ever have home
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