The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-25
Zeppelin Victims More Numcr-
Gus Than Officials Ad-
mitted. Says Witness.
ROW DIS IMPERILLED
Observers Here From England
Say Theatre Folk Were
in Danger.


night of Wednesday. October 10. greatly
undercstimatcd the number OF those
killed and wounded. according to pas
senecrs who arrived yesterday ON the
American liner st. Paul. from Liver
pool. One OF these. Thomas Evarts
been in London OH business. said that
a friend connected with the British Ad-
miralty in high position told him
that fully 300 were killed and an even
larger number Wounded The Admi-
ralty report was fifty-fve fatalities and
ia hurt.
Other passengers. although they est-
mated only from what they saw OF the
attack. placed the number of killed at
between 100 and zoo. T. W. Whit
ridge, president of the Third Avenue
Railway Company DECLARED that
he was informed ia We're killed. OF
whom between forty and fifty were
soldiers and officers stationed in Lon
don.
There were five Ieppelins in the raid.
II was said. All the bombs fell within
y radius of a block and "A half OF the
Gaiety Theatre on the Strand. Few
buildings were hit. nearly all OF tho
bombs striking the sidewalks and
roadways
Bomb Falls In Crowd.
The Gaiety Theatre. after the Yep
pelins departed, had not a pane of glass
intact. Neither did the Lyc"um. Strand
OF Aldwych theatres or the Waldorf
Hotel One missile hit the Bell public
house, at Catherine street and the
Strand. \ group OF persons gathered
inside were wiped out of existence in
flash. Another bomb. apparently de-
fective. crashed through building IN
IIatton Gardens. the headquarters Of
the diamond brokers in London. 1t
penetrated from roof to cellar and lay
there unexploded. \ third. according
to Mr.. Whitridsc. hurtled down on the
head OF one OF his acqua intances. an
elderly man. who was standing in the
strand. Everywhere they hit the road
way disappeared in n yawning crater
six or eight feet deep and the width
OF the street.
Despite the explosion there WAS no
panic in the GIiety Theatre audience,
hut several girls ran from their dressing
rooms 10 the street I'm scant attire
one man carried into the theatre had
his left leg partly blown Off. This man
said he saw "A woman who had been
knocked down and cut IN two ia the
street by huge sheet of plate glass
blown from a bulliug next to the Ly-
Ccum Theatre
In the first attack the principal dam
age was done In two blocks be'wpen
Wellington street. Oh the Strand. and
Somerset House, where Ill the archives
of the British nation are kept. and in
that busy night section OF London uu-
m.rous lives We're lost. Many vino gath.
cred in III" ST. .ct to get a glimpse Of the
great gas bags. for I was cloudlcss
night, were blown to lIcces in groups
The First Attack.
It was 2:lj O'Clock IN the evening
when the attack began. All was over
in seven minutes. The Icppcins
whirred away. but merely 10 have
struck once was not enough: at mid
night they returned. A second time
they left and a third time they re-
/ turned at o'clock in tine morning.
Then, after one more demonstration.
they disappeared out over the sea. AZ
midnight they passed over WcolNich
and Croydon, apparently recommending
for an attack tn. next evening on the
great arsenal. for on Thursday night
another attempt was made This time
~
twenty miles from London. /, was re-
ported.
one OF the unique features OF the at
tack was told by Mrs NJ. cadwalader
Jones OF New York. VINO returned after
a visit to friends ia England. on the
nigh, of the raid she was staying with
friends in - Hertfordshirc town
The have queer but very efi-
cient warning device" said Mrs. Jones.
Tll ~ gf1 10 IN
pheasants and they are very tame. The
birds have sense Of hearing vastly
more acute than that OF humans, and
they catch the whirring OF the Iep-
pelins afar off II seems to starte
them, for they begin at once TO set
up the widest drumming.
"On Wednesday night. little after
. 80 think, one OF the servants came
to my hostess and calmly announced
Madam, | think there are Ieppellns
near The pheasants are drumming
We waited and several minutes later
we caught the faint sound of the en-
gines II was half an hour before the
alrship appeared and Wa caught a
glimpse OF II as IL passed over. just a
cigar shaped patch nying across the
sky"
Mrs Jones added thar she had been
told that an attempt was made 10 de-
-
factory Al Enfield. but that the In
Naders were driven off without a chance
TO bomb eithey place. the greatest pre-
cautions are being taken "a protect the
railroad lines. On the night of the at
tack, as soon as warning was received
every train In the district threatened
WAS halted. The fires in the engines
were drawn and lights were put out In
the coaches, while the trains stood idle
for four hours until signalled that all
was safe. The Xeppelns watch care
fully for chance TO cripple traffic and
even the faint glow Of locomotives
fire marks out the tracks below for a
target
Lily Lnngtry sees Victims.
Lady lie Battle (Mrs. Idly I.angtry)
was dining in restaurant when the
raid occurred
"It was a terrible sight to see pool
shopglrls who had been injured brought
into the restaurants" she said "Tt
think that those young women who hao
done nothing wrong from militar,
point Of view-.-non -combatants in tho
fullest scnsc--should suffer. The only
persons In England who fear the raids
are the children. The Germans hav,
struck terror into the minds OF thos,
little ones, They are terrorstricken
| know OF several children who since
the raid early last month have slcp
| each night with their clothes on ant
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