Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-04

Omitted Press staff correspondent.)
London, Sept. 4.-Eighteen charred
and crushed corpses, the bodies of the
German Zeppelin sailors who came
crashing to earth from mile above
London IN Sunday mornings ,reat raid
were buried near Cuffley today,
They were the first Germans to die
in action on English soil since the war
began. One of them wore an iron
cross.
Experts attached to the royal flying
corps today continued to dig in the
ruins of the destroyed Zeppelin for bits
of machinery that will assist them in
reconstructing dirigible.
Much of the machinery was found
only slightly damaged. The zeppelins
clock was practically as good as new.
II had stopped at $40, the hour when
an English shell went bursting through
the great bag.
Thousands of Londoners continued to
pour out to Cuffley today to see the pile
of debris they had watched tumble from :
the sky Sunday morning.
The streets and housetops were
crowded while the raid was in progress
General French's official report at
midnight that raid was in progress,
called out the London constabulary ana
within few minutes word that great
fleet Of airships had invaded England
had spread throughout the city.
1t was q. m. before the London
crowds got their first thrill. A single
anti.aircraft gun suddenly doomed
somewhere, announcing the arrival Of a
Zeppelin. The booming became epi-
demic, spreading all over London. Sharp
explosions. evidently of bombs hurled
down by the Zeppelins, were heard far
in the distance.
A Thrilling Scene.
II was an ideal night for raiding
purposes, black with but with few stars.
The searchlights cut across the black
ness like loRg white fingers until one
of them picked up tiny cigar shaped
object far off in the heavens.
The booming now became incessant.
A whole handful of searchlight fingers
focused on the Zeppelin which swung
first one way and then another in vain
efforts to escape the glare. Shrapnel
burst star,like above and below the raid
er. It was like great display Of fire.
works. Suddenly the airship mrched
and pointed its nose skyward. Appar-
emily she was trying to mount into the
clouds. She trembled moment in Md
air, then returned to her horizontal po-
sition and while the crowds watched
breathlessly suddenly vanished from
sight.
The searchlights flashed sharply
seeking to relocate her Their shafts
fell against cloud behind which 1T
seemed the Zeppelin might have taken
refuge. But while every eye was glued
on this cloud bank, there was burst
of flame several hundred feet lower
flame that Redeemed half northern
London. The burning mass seemed to
hang suspended in the air for fully two
sections. Then it gradually sank from
sight.
The cheers that went up from the
London streets and house tops combined
in a great roar and out did the yells of
oil the worlds series baseball crowds
that ever assembled. Women with
coats thrown over their nightgowns,
barefooted men, some of them wearing
only their pajamas, waved their arms
and yelled.
The booming Of anti-aircraft guns be-
came less frequent and then died out
altogether. The driver Of street
sweeper yelled "Get up" to his horses
and his broom recommended revolving
J London yawned and went back to bed. I.