The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-09-18
ZEPPELIN RAID
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fats. On the ground floor there were
sleeping a widow. her 1S-year-old
daughter and a young man lodger.
"On the first floor there was a fam
lily OF three children. two OF them
girls. and on the second floor a work
ingman. his wife. four girls and one
boy A bomb dropped squarely on
tho roof
"As the laborer and his wife. who
were on the second floor. described
II. the whole partition wall beside
their bed gave way and disappeared.
The man showed his wife into the
center OF the room, and went to find
the children.
Children Killed.
Two OF them, who slept in a roo2
under the spot where the bomb fell.
vanished with the room and every
thing In II. Their bodies were found
two days later under the debris. OF
the others. a boy OF eight ran for
safety 10 n staircase. which had been
Blown away. and in the dark fell into
the hole. where his sisters bodies
were buried in the ruins.
Here are a few pictures OF the ef-
fects accomplished by the officers and
crew OF the last airship which visited
the London district. Somewhere in
London there is little street with
a public house at the corner
Outside II, Wednesday evening. az
ter the place was closed. a man and
woman stood talking. While the
woman went away TO buy supper the
man waited for her, and there fell at
his feet the first explosive bombs.
They killed the man outright and
blew pieces Of the paving stones onto
surrounding roofs. They blew IN the
front OF the public house. reducing
the stock to q mass OF broken glass.
On the floor above they twisted an
iron bedstead. inturing a woman who
was sleeping there. and reduced what
had been the carefully kept living
room of a small family TO a mass of
SCOT. dust plaster and broken glass.
In another part OF the area over
which the airship passed there is big
block of workmen's dwellings. which
are crowded day and night with child
rem. A bomb dropped on the roof.
Directly under the roof was a little
flat IN which four children had their
sleeping quarters After being put to
bed two OF them got up secretly to
make tea in an adjoining room.
The bed they left now is a mass OF
charred and blackened sheets. with
the waitress torn to pieces. They es-
capped by a miracle but in a small
bedroom adjoining the other two chill
dren were instantly killed.
Buildings Strong.
These buildings are strong and the
bomb did not penetrate far. You
hardly can notice the damage to the
roof II you pass In the street. That
was all that was happening when the
captain OF the German aircraft pro-
fessed TO think he was visiting docks
and vitality damaging the port OF
London.
The bodies OF two OF the occupants
OF the first floor later were recovered
but the worst effects OF the bombs
were felt on the ground floor. Part
OF the body OF the man who occupied
IL was found $50 yards away.
"A bomb which dropped In a street
blew I'm the front OF a shop but spent
its main force on a passing motor
bus on which twenty persons were
riding. including the driver and CON
ductor. Nine OF them were killed and
II injured. The drivers legs were
blown on and he died in a hospital
These Incidents alone. which ac-
count for nearly half the deaths. Will
suffice 20 show what was the nature OF
the success attending the attack upon
London. The net results OF the weeks
raids upon the London district we're
3s killed or died OF wounds and 12f
injured. Two policemen and one army
service corps man we're among che
victims but no other person in uni
form was killed or injured.
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