The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-09-23
RAGE OF ENGLAND
BURNS WHITE HOT
FOLLOWING RAIDS
London Maddened by Beautiful,
Horrible, Thrilling Spec
tacIe of Air Battle
Above City.
SPECTATORS IN AMERICA
Eye Witnesses Describe Sensa.
tional Attack by zeppelins
Recruiting Increases
Much Damage Done.

I1uCI Dd1IidSC oOuG.
New York. Sent. 21.-A handful of
persons Of the millions who saw the
first Zeppelin raid over the heart OF
London on the night of September 8
reached New York today aboard the
steamer Orduna with thrilling stories
of the fight in the sky between the
invaders and British aircraft, and
other details of the damage inflicted,
which a hitherto been suppressed
by the British censor.
There were said to be. three Zep-
pelins in the fleet, although those who
told the story today had seen but one.
Ihey circled over the theater and
hotel district of London, dropping ex-
plosIVes and incendiary bombs. One
of the latter. it vas said, destroyed by
fire an entire block Of warehouses
within five minutes walk of st. Paul's
church. An explosive bomb ripped
through a six story tenement in the
city and shattered the building from
top to bottom and killed a dozen Of
men, women and children as they
slept. Several bombs, according to
eye witnesses, fell near the hospitals
in a cluster, the central one of which
was the Opthalnic hospital. full Of
wounded soldiers. All three buildings
We're rocked to their foundations, and
not a pane of glass was left intact.
The patients had to be moved into
the street, where they lay for hours
on their cots, while the damage was re-
paired.
Pieced together from accounts given
by the Orduna's passengers, the story
or the air raid was as follows:
Inc raid occurred between 1915 and
LID o'clock on the night of September
., a raid the previous night having
reached the eastern section Of the CITY
but not the heart. Persons asleen in
the Metropolis, the Victoria and Other
notes In the center of the city were
~ by the incessant whirr OF
eroplane engines as the British air
Ileet took wing to repel the Invaders.
Just az the Zeppelins appeared over the
strand most of the theaters were pour
ing their crowds into the street.
mere according to some passengers,
a panic impended when the first word
OF the approaching aircraft was PASSED
from mouth to mouth in whispers. The.
lights We're turned off and men and
women In evening clothes fought for
taxicabs and other vehicles to taLa
them home. other passengeTs 's s9y
there was no panic. but that a great
wave OF fear seemed to engulf this Soc
ton OF the darkened city before TIE.
antl-alrcraft guns began to pop away.
DOR the sky was swept by long white
beams from scores of searchlights. Th,.
tops OF these beams We're not long in
resting upon what they sought. Wiian
the IVES found a dozen or
more searchligisfs focused their ray,s
upon IT stretching back to scatterea
points the city like the long White
ribs OF a fancy fan.
Birdmen Take Fliaht.
Two s%earchligllts finally conferred o.,
q While the others contin,,ea
70 search the sky for more aircraft. Al
1eady tho air was dotted with aero
planes which could be seen frealentI,,
as lacy crossed the searchlights' beam.
clrcilnE upward. The roar of guns from,
the city was punctuated at intervals bv
Ne eAplosions OF bombs which fell in
NeW6ate street, not far from ST. Pal1l's
Gat1sedra! in Holborn, in Cheapside. in
bloomfield street. not far from tha
Liverpool street station, and near tha
water front of the Thames river in.
that section Of the city in which e.
PauIs is located.
Inc zeppelin seemed to float lazilv
spove US, said Miss A. s. Satham. Of
Syonsy, Australia. who was staying at
s .an9e victoria hotel, near Charing Cross.
II reminded me of nothing so much
as q great fat
NY wife and I watched the Zeppelin
rom q balcony of our hotel, the Metro
Poe, (which Is near the National GAL
MeNabb, of BRIDGEPORT, Conn. r went
airectly over the hotel and dronnad
bombs around u.s.
Ifers was hardly a space of Ave Sec
.LSS u = the ~ minute or more
LA Ine searchlight beams rested IN
the ralaef, eye witnesses said. that the
say Was netaightened by flashes Of ex-
plodinG ~shefis.% AS the noise Of nan-
n fIen crew = those who had
ana came out into the streets. r.,sy
were IN aimost every stage Of l1ndrass
Thousand of men, women and nhi1,
uTen WaAked the streets or STOOD a.
sIoups, gazing upward, dressed only IN
their night clothes. W -
Shrapnel Changed Course.
Inc bursting shells lighting the Oh,
. y iheteors shattered into sudden fire.
al around the Zeppelin. The snits ~
names seemed to be finding their far
get. Meanwhile the Zeppelin nnana1I-
vered over the Holborn section of -
uon. clrcling at least twice. These man
supeIs ended when a shell burst almost
airscty under the aircraft's bow.
LIS Zeppelin appeared to be going
loWn by the head. For a few seconds
me hovered as IT uncertain what to do
. .ii rlghted herself, pointed her nose
- y upward and assembled ID
1917 z ~ tnal Within a minute or two the
1TaaalaniIghts could find her no more.
anere We're no further bomb Explosions
thereafter.
rensselaer, county. New York. has
soINladsn 2 practice of catching rab.
DTS with the hands. Here and 49,.
RENSSELAER, is willing to yield ! noint
o1e IN a case Of this sort never.
DRuMMoND FUNERAL.
~southampton, Sept. 20.-Mrs. Mald-
VIII l1runinond. formerly Mrs. Mar