Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-03
ZEPPELINS In RAIDS
DO HEAVY DAMAGE
[Continued From First Page


dimmed for several hours. The zeppe-
Inns were about from 8 p. m. until
after l a. m.
The Zeppelin which visited the east
coast of Scotland last night hung over
the district for forty-five minutes dur
ing which time twenty bombs were
dropped. No further details from that
district have yet been announced.
A Zeppelin which appeared over q
northeastern county yesterday evening
remained about an hour and a half,
but as far as at present ascertainable,
dropped only twenty bombs over a
considerable area, largely agricultural.
Berlin Claims Heavy Loss
The official German account of Sat-
urday nights Zeppelin raid over Eng
land follows:
During the night of April 1-2 naval
airships renewed the attack on the
east coast of England. For a period
of one and one-half hours explosive
and incendiary bombs were thrown on
blast furnaces, large iron works and
industrial establishments on the south
bank of the Tees and on the ports of
Middlesburg and Sunderland. Large
explosions, fires and demolitions were
caused and the successful effects of
the attack were clearly noticeable.
Notwithstanding heavy shelling of
our airships, they suffered neither
losses nor damages"
18 Dead: 100 Hurt
AT least sixteen persons were killed
and about 100 others injured by the
explosion of bombs dropped by a Yep
pefin over the northeast coast OF Eng
land Saturday night. An official ac-
count of this raid, issued last evening,
said
1.-TWO airships approached the north
east coast Saturday night. Only one
crossed the coast. The other turned
back.
For the present we know that six
teen persons were killed and about 100
injured.
Eight dwelling houses were demol-
ished and a serious fire was caused in
a French polishing shop"
Further details are reported by a
correspondent in a northeast coast
town who says the Zeppelin was
sighted there at 11\ o'clock Saturday
night. 1t dropped fourteen explosive
and seven incendiary bombs. Ten
men, three women and three children
were killed and twenty-five persons
were seriously injured. In addition
about eighty others received minor in
| juries.
A tramcar inspector was killed and
a woman tram conductor had suffered
| the loss OF a leg DlOWn OIL. several
houses were wrecked in one street
One house was demolished, but the
| family of five escaped without serious
| injury.
Death List Grows
An official communication also given
out summarized the results of Friday
nights attack by Zeppelins as follows:
THE total casualties reported in the
Zeppelin raid on the night OF March
| 31-April / now amount to 43 killed
and &c injured. Nearly 200 explosive
and incendiary bombs were dropped.
"A Baptist chapel, three dwelling
| houses and two cottages were demol-
ished. A town hall. foul dwelling
houses, 35 cottages and a tramca1
shed were partly wrecked. There was
no military damage.
"a number of our aeroplanes went
up to attack the raiders. Lieutenant
| Brandon, Royal Flying Corps, rising
5000 feet, saw a Zeppelin about 5000
| feet above him. AT 5000 feet he got
over, it and attacked, dropping sew
eral bombs, three of which he believes
took effect.
Later he got over the airship again
and let two more bombs over her nose
| His own machine was hit many times
| by machine gun bullets. This may
have been the Zeppelin which dropped
a machine gun, ammunition, a petro
tank and machinery or possibly that
which came down off the Thames
| aSt,Iarv