Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-31
TONS OF BOMBS
STRIKE PARIS
Twenty-F Four Persons Killed
and Twenty Seven
Wounded in Raid
HOUSES DESTROYED.
Majority of Victims Killed in Their
Beds-Bombs Said to Weigh 500
Pounds Each.

| Paris. June 31-Twenty-four per-
sons were killed and 27 injured IN
the Zeppelin raid over Paris Satur-
day night, according to an official
statement.
Thirty French acroplanes searched
the remote air regions above the city
for the Zeppelin raider, of whose ap-
proach warning had been given. BY
the time it had reached the edge OF
one of the old quarters of the city
several of the airmen were able tc
make out its pale yellow shape A.
900 feet from the earth.
Frightened, doubtless, by the num-
crous warplanes rising toward it, the
Zeppelin wheeled and drove at full
speed northward, dropping in its trai!
into the darkness a cargo OF about
three and half tons of bombs. Then
continuing its flight at a great altl-
.tudc, the airship vanished.
Parisians had been warned, half an
hour before by fire engines rushing
through the streets trumpetlng the
call known as "stand to arms of the
presence of the raider The electric
street lights went out and policemen
cautioned careless householders to
close their shutters and darken their
windows Immediately. 1t was still
carly in the night, close to 10 o'clocN
and many persons were in the streets.
The cafes were open and the moving
picture theatres and playhouses were
still entertaining their spectators and
audiences. Then in all parts Of the
city could be heard the whirr Of nu-
merous aeroplane propcllcrs, while
everywhere people went upon the bal
comics to watch for Zeppeins.
Few Parsians appeared to believe
the raiders were. likely TO come, as
they had been turned back many times
previously. But suddenly in one OF
the northeastern parts Of Paris there
was a great flare in the sky as the
Zeppelin dropped an illuminant, so
that those in the airship might see
whether they were over the city.
Then bomb fell into street
crushing through into the subway and
tearing hole Is feet in diameter
but injuring no one. Quickly a series
of other detonations occurred, sound
ing fully throughout the city.
One of the missiles fell on an isolat'
ed house occupied by 4 single family
The building was bisected, one end
being demolished and its occupants
hurled far out into an open lot and
killed The other end of the house was
cut off sharply and a bedroom on the
second floor was left intact with It's
occupants uninjured. The floor wa:
carried away under the head or the
bed, leaving the bed balanced On th'
Jagged edge of the ruins. with nin'
year old boy in it unharmed.
at took US many years to save
enough to build that home, with tn'
help of my sons employer" said tht
Grandmother of the boy, "but it i
r all gone in one night, together will
A my son and my daughter-in-law. bu
have this lad left and he is pluck,
5 enough to begin it all over again, 10
. although he was blocked up there ol
D the edge of what is left fthi5 lIttl
4 bedroo ON an hour before the flreme
rescued him. he never fiinched. neve
even whmpered.'
8 It the more populous quarters,
'. bomb struck six-story apartmen
building occupied by the families 0
workingmen, cutting it in two on IN
line of the corner Of the kitchens fror
garret to cellar, burying 10 victim
under the debris Of the central PAL
of the structure. The street front wa
untouched, and on the other side c
the gap the six kitchens of the bulIe
ing, one atop another, were left ope
to the weather with the ranges an
utensils in plain view and apparent
undisturbed.
C Altogether a dozen bombs welgt