The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-05
ZEPPELIN FRIGHTFuLNEss
what An American Woman Saw Of Raid ln London.
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 Raid ln London.
 (New York Tiraes.)
 A letter received by a woman New Yorker from her daughter portrays wildly the horror of the writer over Zeppelin raid In London. which came very near to her It says:
 "I am really almost too tired to try to write to you about the air raid ol night before last In all. there were about thirty bombs dropped in our immediate vicinity was just on the point of going to bed when the first blast went off, about 9:2O; - - was out. and l had something to eat at the Waldorf and was nearly home at about 20 minutes before the at tack
 "The first blast rocked the build ing and sent the windows all flying It was like a ha'lstorm of broken glass. ] walked out of my apartment and started sneakIng down the stairs am on the sixth floor It took me ages to get down, stopping every few minutes as the blasts went off. Other people were crouching along, and the night porters had to run the lifts tc the top for the servants, who were terrified. poor things One girl was in her bath. and somebody wrapped sheet around her. The staff woman was m with pneumonia and had to be carried down
 "On all of the floors I saw G. w looking Ike a figure out of the French revolution. Her face was streaming with blood. She stood up against one of the walls. and we didn't speak to each other l saw her as though she were in dream. learned after wards that she was in her office, which is just over my bedroom, and was thrown down and cut by the flying glass.
 q went on. down end down. There seemed to me to be no end of the stone stairs. and was afraid to hur- ry because they were so slippery, and the horrible explosions filled the place with dust and smoke and soot.
 There wasn't any noise except from thn Explosions People just crouched along. huggIng the walls. Between times 1t was as still as death: but those intervals were very short. ] wasn't nearly as excited as was on the night of the other raids; nor did l see any of the zeppelins, because they were directly over as.
 "I went up stairs as soon as the immediate bombardment was over to get my coat md see what damage had been done. Some of my windows were blown out. and the fro and specks of soot hom the drawing room hearth lay scattered an over every thing. The fire was eating through the soot that was smothering it. and the air was black with smoke. We had Go clear the room with shovels The doors leading Co the balcony had been sucked i'm and then out, drag ging the curtains with them. I could not wash myself because the bath room was mass of broken glass. and ] spent the night looking Ike chim- ney sweep.
 'I cannot begin to tell you of the havoc that was wrought here. There was scarcely a window left in the nelghborhood. One policeman, pat rolling the street. was blown to bits. Two of the servants coming home found one of his feet lying in the roadway. The driver of an omnibus. near the Waldorf. was blown Into such mass that what was left of him had to be covered with sand and shoveled up.
 "At about l2 o'clock Mrs. II. Mrs. W. and myself plucked up enough courage to walk out and found the ambulance stll working Then wo saw the explosive lights far up in the sky from the south. and somebody said the zeppellns were coming back, so we hurried home They passed very close on their way back. be- lieve, but either their ammunition had given out or they were being pursued by British alrmen
 "Our roof was covered with shrap- nel. and in Mrs W's. room. where everything was whirled about, @ big piece had blown into the window and reposed in her plncushion. One bomb fell directly in front of us. so close that I could toss a ball to the spot from my balcony window. and three others just behind, one of them very near They were shrapnel bombs. which means that when they explode .he shrapnel flies in every direc- ton, and no one who isn't under coy- CT can miss being killed or wounded.