The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
SEE ElAIRMEN FIGHT
 OVER, CITY ROOFS
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(Continued from Page D Several ,bonabss according to the eYe-Witnesses, fell near three hospitals in a cluster, the central one of which
 was the Ophtha1n1ic Hospital full of wounded soldiers. All three build ings were rocked to. their foundations, and not a pane of glass was left in tact.
 l Pieced together from accounts gfv-
 en by the Orduna's passengers, the
 story of the raid was as follows: The raid occurred between 10 and 11:15 clock on the night of Septem- Der B. Persons asleep in the Victor and other hotels in the center of the city werer awakened by the whi of aircraft engines, as the British air l fleet took wing to repeI the invaders Just as these aeroplanes rose over the Strand most of the theatres were pouring their crowds into the street. l There, according to some, passengers
 a panic 1mpended. With the first word OF the approaching aircraft the lights
 were turned off and there was a, hur-
 ryingN for vehicles to take the people
 to their homes.
 Suddenly, from every section of London the sky was swept by long;
 white beams from scores of search lights It was not long before two lights rested upon a Zeppelin while the others continued to search the sky for more eaircr aft.rs Aeroplanes
 could be seen as they crossed the searchlight beams. The roar Of guns from the city was punctuated at intervals by the explosions of bombs which fell in Newgate street, not far from St. PauFs Cathedral, in HoIborn, in Cheapside, in Bloomfield street and
 near the Thames water front.
 ssThey Zeppelin seemed to float 1azfly how E11S'5 sail Miss A thaIll. or Sidney, Australia, who was staying at the Victoria Hotel near Charring Cross s.1t reminded me of nothing so much as g great, fat sausage
 There was hardly a space of five sec onds during the 10 minutes or more that the searchlight beams rested on the raider, eyewitnesses said, that the sky was not lighted by flashes of ex- ploding shells. As time passed those who had fled at first to cellars gained courage and came out into the streets. They were in almost every stage of undress, eyewitnesses said, and thou sands of men, women and children walked the streets, or stood in groups, gazing upward, dressed only in their night clothes.
 The bursting shells, lighting the sky like neteors, scattered fire all around the Zeppelin. These spits of fire seem to find their target. In the meantime the Zeppelin moved over the Holborn section of London, scattering at least twice. The raid ended when a shell burst almost directly under the air crafts bow.
 A swerve, a sudden rip and the zep- pe1in was lost to the search1ights- A moment later the airship was spotted and she appeared to be going down by the head. For a few seconds she ho- vered uncertainty, then lighted, point ed her nose upward and ascended so rapidly that within minute or two the searchlights could md her no more.
 London went to bed that night with hot wrath, but not in fear, these pas sengers said The next day, at re- cruiting stations which had been emp ty the day before, there were long lines of men waiting, eager to join the army.
 Back of the cathedral where there are many warehouses, there were Vis- ible effects of the raid. An entire city block was in ashes. The burned build ings had been filled with clothing and other supplies for the British army. There we.se no munitions in the build ing, however, it was said.
 At the hospital, it was stated that considerable damage was done by a bomb which had fallen about a block away This building and two others converted into hospitals for wounded soldiers, had felt the force of the ex- plosion as if it had been at their doors.
 In Bloomfield street a cavity 30 feet in diameter and about 8 feet deep made by an explosive bomb was the center from which for three squares destruction had radiated.
 At another place, about fifteen min utes ride from the Victoria Hotel, a six story tenement had been demol- 1shed. It was reported that five per- sons had been killed in their beds in this building and that more than 20 had been hurt
 Altogether, it was unoff1cialIy report ed, about 40 persons were killed by bombs and 200 or more wounded. About half of these, it was said, were women and children. Not a govern ment building nor a church nor an arsenal, a dock or a hospital had been reached by a bomb, the Orduna's pas sengers were informed. The greatest material damage they said, was the destruction by fire of the block of warehouses near St. PauPs Cathedral The chief result of the raid, they said was to swell the number of recruits by nanythou usands.