Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-24
GREAT HAVOC WROUGHT
BY SHELLS IN DUNK|Rk
About 300 People Killed or Wounded
by German Guns, Eight
Miles Away.
PLACE is MADE UNTENABLE
soldiers Have Evacuated Barracks
and Wounded Are Removed.
From Military Viewpoint of En-
envy, Bombar1ment Is Satisfactory.
Especial to The Times-Dispatcb 7

NEW YORK. May "a thrilling
| STORY or the havoc wrought In Dun
XIX ny the huge German guns that
sheiied tho town from a point twenty
IiSht miles away, was told to-day by
'ohh \. Brady, Chicago newspaper
man, who returned on the White Star
| liner Adriatic
brady was in Dunkirk during the
second oombardment with John Bor-
ueh' tne chicago millionaire. aud mem
per OF inc New York Yacht Club. Both
had been acting as chauneurs OF hos
nital supply trucks attached to the
nospital established by Mr.. Bordens
Sister Mrs. Mary Borden Turner.
mere were two bombardments,'
said Mr.. Brady to-day. The first took
pace on April % and %. and the sec
onh on April % and 30 We were in
| Dunkirk when the second lombard
lneht commenced at 1890 o'clock on
the 2oth. 1t lasted that day until 2:3O
!. NJ during which time twenty shells
win ola meter OF nineteen and a half
'hches. were hurled into the town
TWENTY SOLDIERS KILLED
WHEN FIRST SHELL STRIKES
| The first she'll struck in the plaza
IN 'front.' OF our hotel, about $50 yards
from US. and very close to the arsenal
AT which the Germans were aiming.
IL Killed twenty soldiers and one
| woman.
Wherever she'll struck it made a
tremendous hole. and all fell within
al ara OF a square mile. The vacuum
caused By the explosion of the shells
was so strong that 1t literally sucked
UP any one in the vicinity and threw
! them To the ground.
| TWO shells struck a house next to
inc military hospital. completely de-
,nolishins 1t. The conclusion caused
by the explosions was so great that
forty seriously wounded soldiers in the
hospital were killed
Another shell hit the railroad sta
ton and killed three men One struck
the Casino, killing several. after
wards went into this building. and the
effect 81 the explosion had been SO
tremendous that the bones of one vic
tim had been driven into the wood
work.
one shell chugGed into the bay,
and a second later the waters of the
haroor seemed TO heave upward in
! a solid body. All the torpedo craft
lying there Immediately put 10 sea AZ
full speed.
The second day only eight shells
were fired. Throughout the hombar1
ment German Taube aeropIane cir
cleo above the city signaling TO the
| distant Eunners. The French runners
trained their antiaircraft guns and
rifles at the aviator. but failed TO drive
| him off
RESULT OF BoMBtRDMENT
ENTIRELY SATISFAC Glory
! The result of the bombardmen,
, from military view was entirely sat
isfactory. Dunkirk has been rendered
untenable as a base. All the soldiers
! nave evacuated the barracks and the
wounded also have been removed.
The gun was situated twenty-eich n,
/ miles away. just beyond Dixmude. I,
was apparently fired from concrete
base, which. according to military
men, had not thoroughly set The
charge used TO hurl the projectiles over
this tremendous distance was some
form Of highly explosive gas. In all
about 300 were either killed or wound
cd as result of this bomba rdment
The military authorities enjoined strict
silence and refused TO allow any details
to be printed. When we arrived in
London l offered the story to the Daily
Mail. but was told they could not
print it."
Mr.. Borden. who returned with Brady,
said:
The most surprising thing about the
battlehelds in France is the rapid man
ner in which all battle scars are re-
moved as soon as an action is over.
Soldiers and civilians alike are set to
work Immediately after a she'll has
landed TO clear away the debris and
remove all trace"