Evening star., 1915-09-19
British Business Man Tells of
ZeppeIin's Voyage Over
London Suburb.
WEIRD RAIDING CRAFT
ESCAPES ENGLISH GUNS
Rumors of High Death Lists Heard
by Passengers Of Liner Reach
ing New York.

NEW YORK. September 1S.-The Yep
pelin raid over England on the night oi
Sentember 7, in which it was ofhclaliS
reported ten were killed and forty-slS
injured. did not occur over London IL
self but the damage was done in the
eastern suburbs of the city, according
to passengers who arrived on the
steamship Baltic from Liverpool. The
Baltic left Liverpool September s. and
passengers did not hear until their ar
rival here that London itself had been
reached by Zeppelin bombs the night
of their departure with still more 1a'al
results.
None of the passengers VINO were III
London the night of September knew
that there had been raid that hlsh'
until the next day. when they were
leaving for Liverpool to take the boa''
and were positive no damage had peeh
done in the capital.
Anti-Aircraft Guns Fail.
A. l. Tavlor, an English business man,
whose home is in Hadley, to the east
of London. and near South End, sald
no saw one of the three Zeppellhs
which were reported to have taken part
in the raid. He was awakened by 'ne
so,,nd of exnlosions at 1890 o'clock, ne
said and from the window OF MS nome
saw the big airship approaching iiunA
Enfield, which is somewhat ~
northeast of London, and the loeatioii
of a smallarms factory. IT,,
It was evidently returning. ne sa'u'
from the raid, as it was sallins
The Zeppelin was clearly 1s outii see
searchlights, and beneath ne couiu 3.
scores of smoke pu1s from an an 80 not
Guns The range of these guns was mo-
S,'aio;ont and the great ship salled
Mr. Taylor left too early the next day
to find out what damage mad pesh
done. but thought 1T mao af pben tbe bombs
siderable, as the explosion OF the ash po,hos
was terrific, and was followed by Hashes
81 was awakened by these expio-
sions about 1880 O'clock salu 1" w
Taylor "and rushed to my window.
seemed unbelievable, but there was
Zeppelin in plain sight
Like Some Weird Visitor.
81 rushed out into my garden, and SO
did my family, and we watched II. LII
nm AGAINST the stars by scores OF
searchlights, it did not seem to be IKE
, thing of this earth. 1t was like some
weird visitor from one Of the stars
Instead of being frightened, we watched,
fascinated In the glare of the search
lights I could see black objects leave
the thing. and in a minute there Would
he an explosion below. These, ! sup
nose were the bombs. We watched IL
for about twenty minutes. when IT got
out of range of the searchllGhts ana
disappeared toward the east
To, II
London that the Zeppelins. in their
right raids, struck the coast at SCUM
End and followed the route OF the
London, Tilbury and southern a!iwas,
following as a guide the llghted Trains
which ran every half hour or so.
Other passengers on the snip salo
that there were many ruhors III i.oil
don of high death lists on account OF
was no authoritative information avail
able other than the press bureau report
Block of Houses Destroyed.
T. ]. Mill of Calgary, Alberta, SAID
he saw the effects of a raid September
> which had resulted in the destruc-
ton of block of houses in the SUP
urb of LAYTON six miles from London
The Baltic had an uneventful voyage,
but for the first time since war was
declared took different course on
leaving Liverpool, steaming around the
north of Ireland, instead of the south.
She received her orders changing her
course in a wireless message from the
British admiralty after she had cleared
the mouth of the Mersey, 1t was sad.
ON her last eastward trip passen-
gers were told a submarine, apparently
living in wait for the Baltic near Hol-
lyhead. was driven off by the new oil
burner cruiser Llewellyn and tEo tor
nedo boat destroyers, which finally sunk
the submarine, according to the story
This the Baltic's officers refused to con-
firm.