The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-01-31

was cut of sharply and a bedroom on
the second floor was left Intact with
its occupants uninjured. The floor
was carried away under the head Of
the bed. leaving the bed balanced on
the jagged edge of the ruins, with a
nine year old boy in IL unframed.
1T took us many years to save
enough to build that home. with the
help of my sons employer" said the
grandmother OF the boy. but Il Is all
gone in n night. together with my son
and my daughter IN law. But I have
this lad left and he is plucky enough
10 begin II all over again. for. al
though he was blocked up there on the
room an hour before the firemen res
cued him, he never hinched, never
even whimpered."
The Zeppelin must have been going
at top speed in hat neighborhood. for
the nearest trace OF II beyond was a
quarter Of a mile away. where a bomb
fell full in the center of a thick stone
wall. cutting a hole out OF IL as clean
ly as II it had been done by a knife.
dug through the pavement deeply into
the cath, causing a bad cavern.
In a more populous quarter. a bomb
struck a six story apartment building
occupied by the families OF working
men. cutting e in two on the line OF
the corner OF the kitchens from garrett
10 cellar. burying their victims under
the debris OF the central part OF the
structure. The street front was I'M
touched. and on the other side OF the
apartments six kitchens. one atop the
other. were left open 20 the weather.
with the ranges and utensils in plain
view and apparently undisturbed.
Crowds View Ruins
This quarter was besieged all the
morning by dense crowds that were
held NJ the street corners by the po.
lice. but none but the city authorities,
representatives OF the government and
newspaper men wrtn Identification
press cards being allowed to inspect
the ruins.
The greatest throng was in the
, street where men from the municipal
chemical laboratory were carefully ex.
aiming a bomb. weighing nearly 500
pounds. that had fallen in the court
yard Of a factory and failed to explode.
The crowd al one time broke through
the police line and elbowed up to the
foot board OF the official motor car 10
get a near view Of the monster.
Altogether a dozen bombs weighing
about 600 pounds each were dropped.
None OF the fatalities occurred in
the open streets. the majority OF the
victims being killed in their beds.
a fog Of considerable density hung
over Paris at the time OF the raid.
President Poincair. who. IN company
with the military governor OF Paris
and the project Of police. visited the
scene Of wreckage. shortly after mid.
night. seemed greatly moved by what
he saw. one OF the houses that he
viewed was that Of Police Sergeant
Bidault. who had just reached his
home and who was killed by a bomb
which at the same time seriously In.
jured his sister-in-law.
Fell Near Hotel.
One Of the bombs fell In the court
yard Of a hotel A corporal returnine
from the front az Hartmans-Weile
kopf had just entered the hotel with
his wife when the explosion occurred
My first move said the sold the
soldier. was 90 lie flat on my chest,
I compelling my wife 20 do the same
We do This instinctively when Ger.
man shells burst near as on the line
No sooner had we done 30 when the