The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
ZEPPELIN RAID.
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church An explosive bomb ripped pe
etarnf,ab a six-story tenement in the
center of the city, shatterlng tne
hniIding from top to bottom and KIN,
ing a dozen or more men, WcHleh anu
children as they slept .-,
shattered Hospital Windows
So1.eraI bombs. according to the eye
x,,itnesses fell near three hospitals III
a cluster, the central one OF WI WIZ af
was the Opthalmic hospital, fuu OF
wounded soldiers. All three puIluin "a
were rocked to their foundations ana
not a pane of glass was lett intact
The patients had to be moved INTO the
street where they lay for hours on
their cots while the damage was
paired. ,,,+e
given by Orduna's passengers the
story of the raid was as follows;
1.-The raid occurred between loo4o
and 11.15 O'Clock on the night OF sep
TENDER 8, raid the previous nlsnl
reached the eastern section OF the
city but not the heart: Persons asleeP
in the Metropole, the Victoria ana
other hotels in the center of the city
were awakened by the incessant
whirr of aeroplane engines as the
British air fleet took wing to repel the
invaders. Just as the Zeppehns ap
peared over the Strand, most OF tne
heaters were pouring their crowds
into the street.
There, according to some passen-
gers a panic impended when the flrst
word of the approaching aircraft was
Dassed in whispers The lights were
turned off and men and women IN
evening clothes fought for taxlcaos
and other vehicles to take them
home. There was no panic but a great
wave of fear seemed to enguf TINS
section of the darkened city before
anti-aircraft guns began to pop away.
Searchlights Find Aircraft.
suddenly from every section OF
white beams from scores of search
lights The tops of these beams were
not long in resting upon what they
sought. When the Zeppelin was
focused their rays upon it stretching
back to scattered points in the city
like the long white ribs of fancy
fan.
on a Zeppelin while the others con-
tinued to search the sky for more
aircraft. Already the air was dotted
with aeroplaneS which could be seen
frequently as they crossed the search
light beam, circling upward. The
roar of guns from the city was punctu-
ated at intervals by the explosions of
bombs which fell in Newgate street,
not far from St PauFs cathedral, IN
Holborn, in Cheapside, in Bloomfield,
not far from the Liverpool street sta
ton, and near the water front of the
Thames river in that section of the
l..
Hot Fire from Defense Guns.
1.-The Zeppelin seemed to float
lazily above u.s." said Miss A. S.
latham, of Sydney, Australia, who
was at the Victoria hotel near Char
ing Cross.
TT reminded me of nothing so
much as great, fat sausage There
was hardly space of five seconds
during the ten minutes or more that
the searchlight beams rested on the
i
sky was not hghtened by flashes of
exploding shells AS the noise of can
nonading grew louder. those who had
fled at first to cellars gained courage
and came out into the streets. They
were in almost every stage of undress
and thousands of women, men and
children walked the streets in groups
gazing upward, dressed only in their
night clothes. The bursting shells.
lighting the sky like meteors, shat
tered into sudden fire all around the
Zeppelin. The splits of flame seemed
to be finding their target meantime
the Zeppelin maneuvers over the Hol-
born section of London circling at
least twice. These maneuvers ended
when a shell burst almost directly I'M
der the aircraft bow.
Seemed to Drop Then Flew Away.
A swerve, a sudden dip and the
searchlights lost the Zeppelin. They
were on her a moment after and it
was seen that she appeared to be go
ing down by the head. For a few
seconds she lowered as if uncertain
what to do, then righted herself
pointed her nose slightly upward and
assembled so rapidly tha1 within a min
ute or two the searchhghts could find
her no more. There were no further
bomb explosions thereafter. London
went to bed that night with hot wrath
but not in fear, these passengers said
The next day they went out to ses
what damage had been done. Having
noticed that the sky in the vicinity of
the ST. Paufs cathedral had been tint
ed red as if by the glow of n great fire,
thew went in that direction first They
passed by recruiting stations, which
had been empty the day before. On
this morning there were long lines of