Evening journal., 1915-09-20
80 british killed
IN GERMAN AIR raid
continued from First pare


don,' one man next to me remarked. |
When shell from the anti-aircraft |
guns seemed TO burst near the yellow |
thing up in the sky. the peopl would |
clap their hands yell Fine shotl'"
The New Yorker who told of the
damage done on Wood street. said
the Zeppelins followed the Great East
ern Railway line into London drop
ping bombs along the way.
They did considerable damage to
/ the railway he said. "and for two
/ days no trains could run over this
! line into the Liverpool street station.
II was staining right in front of the
Carlton Hotel. near Trafalgar Square
at l0.45 on the night Of September s.
London is lighted between 10 and
/ n at night by scores Of great search
/ lights. had just finished paying a
taxi driver when 7 heard a crash like
| thunder. Guns on the roof of an adj
! joining building opened on a great
/ yellowish-white object lowering over
head. People crowded into the streets
, for their first real taste of the war.
Guns on the ST. James Palace
and the Admiralty Buildings opened
fire on the Zeppelin which turned
and disappeared in northeasterly
direction"
Frank c. Page. son OF the Amerl-
can Ambassador to Great Britain who
was another passenger on the Rotter-
dam estimated roughly that between
thirty and forty persons were killed
IN London by the Zeppelins.
Anti aircraft guns had been con-
icealed in Grosvenor Square. in the
exclusive residential section" said
Page. when they began barking
people rushed out from the finest
, homes in London TO see the specta-
! cle.r
Page estimated that the zeppelins
were from 5000 10 10000 feet above
, the city.
: Granville Barker noted English
playwright. called the sky attack on
: London "the greatest stupidity of the
whole war"
The American liner Philadelphia
carrying many more persons who had
witnessed the Zeppelin raid, dockec
at 10 o'clock today.
II. Gordon Selfridge. head Of ths
: big London department store, was al
r Trafalgar Square at l0.45 on the night
! of September 8 and saw the boml
drop which blew up bus with rs
fourteen passengers.
2 "There was little excitement sait
Selfridge "But there was an almos
percephble wave of hate which swep
the great crowd. My daughter and
8 attempted to get a taxi 10 follow tn
e path Of the Zeppelins across the city
S but every car had been taken. N
. one appeared frightened"
Selfridge said that as far as he ha
been able to learn, thirty-eght ha
a been killed and 124 injured in th
~ raid. Mrs Betty Bamsey. assistan
! first class stewardess on the Phila
: delphia, was riding on bus directl
behind the one struck by the boml
d. 1T was terrible sight said Mr.
IN Bamsey 81 tainted when ] saw IT,
le don't know what happened after that
rs Oscar Shaw. a vaudeville actor, wa
a playing in the Alhambra Music Ha
"a when the raid occurred THE boon
=. of bombs when they struck could
!, plainly heard through the theater
he said. 1--WE Immediately dismisse
40 the crowd which had started
throng out onto the streets. The
came the crack of the anti-aircra
guns. and the shrapnel bullets, fal
ing. beat like a terrific hail On Il
Id roof.
To- 1T was tremendous sight whe
r. the Zeppelins arrived" said Edwal
re. Fowell. another eye witness. Fir
no came the crash of the first bomb
ev which could be heard for miles. Th'
:, the lights went out-all but q
10 searohlights. which picked out Il
ou yellow-hrown gas bags outline in q
eI sky The effect of the bombs W
nd startling, l believe that one dro
Dr. ped on the Singer Building Won
lst blast out the interior clear TO q
is bottom"
st. Pauls. London's historic churC
narrowly escaped Zeppelin boml