Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-10-06
INNOCENT CHILDREN
VICTIMS OF ZEPPELINS
PlTIABLE CONDITION LEFT IN
WAKE OF NIGHT ATTACKS ON
CITY OF LONDON.
RESUME WORK In LONDON HOSPITALS
Mr.. and Mrs. Norton Spend Month
in France. Large Number OF
Wounded Soldiers Returning.
London, Enganld, Sept. IA, 1915

London. Enganld, Sept. IA, 1915.
AS a child, ! can recall standing
in deadly terror OF four perils from
which l prayed daily to be deliver
ed. They were fire, flood, cyclones
and Indians. l can imagine that the
children Of Great Britain and OF Lon
don more especially, must have the
same terror of those monsters Of
the skies, the Zeppelines, which hoy
er over the city in the peaceful night
watches and shower down death
upon the sleeping children. It is a
singular thing and a sinister one,
that it is the little children and the
babies that seem to be chief suf-
ferens in these Zeppelin raids. In
one hospital morgue today in Lon
don, lie the bodies CT four little
children and one baby the victim OF
the last Zeppelin raid. A day CIR so
ago, my husband and l visited the
scene of several OF the deaths caus-
ed by the last raid, not a half mile
from where our own hotel stands. 1t
was a tall flat building and We saw
where the bomb had crashed through
the roof, completely demolishing the
apartment, and down to the next
floor where it killed two Sleep
ing children Of a postman, and pene-
trated still frather down killing 9TH
er children belonging to police
man. Scattered among the debris,
we saw the pathetic little toys brok-
en- and SCARED, even as the hands
of their little owners that would new
er fondle them again. And as l
thought of these wee victims suffer
ing so innocently and unjustly, stand
ing in til midst of what had been
their hom', and where they had
been SO happy, it seemed to me l
saw in retrospect the other children
who had suffered in this dreadful
war, the little ones Of Belgium, OF
northern France, Of Poland, and the
cry forced it's way to my lips, "Oh
God can nothing be done to stop
this awful slaughter of the innocent?'
AS we left this scene of desolation,
another sad sight met our eyes. Out
side a ruined house where the faith
er end wage Garner had been kill
ed, sat a little b bCysEh Ehold ling 8 on his
knees his baby sister. with a band-
age over her eyes, where she had
been wounded, and a friend was urg-
ing passerS-by to contribute some
little mite to help these poor babies
deprived Of their protector and pro-
WIDER. In, a large square nearby
bomb exploded in the center max
ing a huge excavation in the ground,
and shattering every pane of glass
all the way around the square and
on many side streets. On one side
of the square was large children's
hospital, and on the other hospi-
tai for paralytics. And yet this is
not northern France, but the heart
of London!
Our hotel, en- last Wednesday
night, was the center OF the aerial
warfare, Just overhead flew the
great Zeppelin, passing quite close
to the rooms on the embankment
side, and white in the glare of the
many search lights focused on it.
From every direction the guns were
booming, from Westminster and Wa
terlco bridge and Hyde Park. some cf
them so powerful that they can
shoot two miles up into the air, and
occasionally when an incendiary
bomb was dropped a tongue of fire
would Indicate that it had done its
work. However, the fires were
quickly extinguished and the Zeppel-
ins driven away; and by three o.
clock in the morning it was posi-
BILE to s'eep, if ones jumpy nerves
would permit. Although our room
is on the top floor, still I cannot
say that we are nervous about an
other attack. We usually ascend to
the roof to have q look before retir-
ing, and during the night a sudden
exposicn from a passing motor will
give us momentary qualm, but we
do not feel that our work on earth
is done just yet, and believe that un-
til then we are immortal. The Zep-
pelins are coming pretty regularly
just now; hardly night but that
they pay US a visit, and I see in
this mornings paper, that added
are to be taken as to
night lights, etc.
We are resuming our work in the
London hospitals, after an absence
Of a month, while we were working
in the camps in the north: and are
finding many new men newly arriv-
ed from the Dardanelles. They all
tell US til same story of the fearful
at that front, and of that
fateful landing where almost all the
entire force was annihilated, and the
boat from which the surviving mem !
bers leaped ashore, half filled with
blood. There has been somewhat of
q lull on the western front, and not
so many wounded men are arriving
from there. Yesterday at Endel
St. hospital, as l offered a Testa- /
ment to a wounded man, he told me :
that one like it, had saved his life |!
when he was wounded, one corner !
If it is entirely gone where the bull |
let carried it away We are constant
" getting letters from French and
Belgian soldiers FOR more Tesla ,
thew seem even more eager !
'or them, if anything than the Brit
sh soldiers. Did l tell you about |
;he soldiers to whom I was speaking |
IT another hospital, where knowing |
hat every man cherishes the bull ,
ct that wounded him. I asked the
,ne if he had his bullet, and he made
'eply that his mate next to him bad |
t, and at my looking a little sur
,rised, he explained: "Ycu see.
oadam, the same bullet ttat wound
ID me, also wounded him: it went
:lear through my leg and lodged in
lis, and he still has it," Yesterday
IS I went up the steps to Westmin-
'ter hospital, and saw the poor
MANNED fellows hobbling up the