Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-21
BOMBS FALL yE
ON HOMES
OF W0RKNEN
British Government, Lifting Veil of
Secrecy, Shows Frightful Re-
suits of Air Raids.
CHILDREN ARE THE VICTIMS
Incidents are Related Where Elk.
plcsives Visit Terrible Death
on Innocent Ones.

lifted its veil of secrecy from tn,
results of Zeppelin raids upon Lon
don. An official description of thu
effects of the last raid, written by
IAN impartial observer" describe ir
detail the killing of women, chill
dren and others innocent of any mil
itary participation in the war.
The surprising and frightful sud.
denness of the death visited upon
these hapless persons is described
and the statement asserts that it is
upon people of this sort that the
main force of the Zeppelins' blows
have fallen.
The statement says:
While it is necessary in the in
terest of public safety to maintain
the rule that no unauthorized &C
counts shall appear, the real charac-
ter OF the outrages will be better I'M
derstood from collection of Incl
dents, each verified on the spot and
vouched for by the authorities as
accurate.
IN every case where damage has
been caused, it was private proper
ty which suffered, usually the small
residential kind. Almost all the I'M
fortunate people killed, not only
were noncombatants but noncombat-
ants of class hereto exempt from
attack-women, children, small
shopkeepers, workingmen-the sac
rifice of whose lives serves no mill
tary purpose. Two hospitals mar
rowly escaped damage, and one
church was hit.
Here are a few pictures of the
effects accomplished by the last
raid. Somewhere in London there
is a little street with a public house
day evening, 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 sur
rounding roofs. They blew in the
front of the public house, reducing
the stock to mass of broken glass.
On the floor above they twisted an
iron bedstead, injuring woman
who was sleeping there.
I'm another part of the area over
which the airships passed is a big
block of workmen's dwellings crowd
ed day and night with children. A
bomb dropped on the roof. Direct
ly under the roof was little fiat in
which four children had their sleep
ing quarters. After being put to bed {
two of them had gone secretly to
make tea in an adjoining room. The
bed they had left was blown into
mass of charred and blackened
sheets. They escaped by a miracle
but in a small bedroom adjoining S
the other two children were killed. S
Somewhere in London's suburbs a
is little block of houses almost by \
itself, divided into small flats On a
the ground floor were sleeping a b
widow, her 1S-year-old daughter and b
young man lodger. S
On the first floor was a family h
Of three children, two of them girls
and on the second floor a working G
man, his wife, four girls and one C
boy. A bomb dropped on the roof. "
AS the laborer and his wife on the n
second floor described it the whole t.
partition wall beside their bed gave Il
way and disappeared. The man n
showed his wife into the center of h
the room and went to find the chill A
dren. II
Two Of them who slept in room sc
under the spot where the bomb fell ts
vanished with the room. Their bod W
les were found two days later under NJ
the debris. A boy of s ran for NJ
staircase to which had been blown in
away and fell into the hole where til
his sisters bodies were burned. The
bodies of two occupants of the first
1oor later were recovered but the
worst effects of the bomb were felt of
IN the ground floor. Part of the ty
,ody of the man who occupied it was
ound $50 yards away. FL
"The net results of the weeks
aids upon London were thirty-eight
Tiled or dead of wounds, and 124 no
INJURED" in