The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-31
ZEPPELIN KILLS "a
INJURIES Fl IN
PARIS RAID
Big esIcraft Drops 3 1-2 Tons Of
Bombs
DENSE FOG AIDS BALLOON
City Had Been Warned but Inhabi.
tants Manifested More Curiosity
Than Alarm.

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sons were killed and 81 injured in the
Zeppelin raid over Paris Saturday
night, according to an official state
ment given ont yesterday Ten OF
the wounded were placed in hospitals
owing to the severity Of their hurts
A dispatch from Paris at 1880 p. M.
says that 80 French aeroplanes search
ed the remote air regions above Paris
Saturday night for a Zeppelin raider
of whose appearance warning had
been given. By the time it had
reached the edge OF one of the old
quarters of the city several of the air
men were able to make out its pale
yellow shape $4,000 feet from the
earth Frightened doubtless, by the
numerous war planes rising toward il
the Zeppelin wheeled and drove al
full speed northward dropping in its
wake in the darkness cargo OF
about 3 1-2 tons of bombs. Then
continuing its fight at q great atti
tude, the airship vanished,
Parisians had been warned half an
hour before by fire engines, rushing
through the streets trumpetine the
call known as stand to arIns'' oi
the presence of the raider. The elec
trio. street lights went out and police
men cautioned careless householders
TO close their shutters and darken
their windows Immediately 1t was
still early in the night, close to 10 o.
clock. and many persons We're in the
streets, the cafes We're open and the
moving picture theaters and play
houses still entertaining their aud
| fences. Then, in all parts of the city
could be heard the whr of numerous
aeroplane propellers while every
where, says dispatch from Paris,
people went upon the balconies to
watch for Zeppelins. Few Parisians ap
peared to believe the raiders were
likely to come as they had been turn.
ed back many times previously. But
suddenly in the northeast of Paris
there was a great flare in the sky as
the Zeppelin dropped an illuminant
so that those on the airship might see
whether they were over the city.
Then bomb fell into street, crush.
ing through into the subway and
tearing hole Is feet in diameter, but
iniuring no one. Quickly series OF
other detonations occurred sounding
duly throughout the city,
One of the missiles fell upon an iso-
lated house occupied by a single fam.
lily. The building was bisected, one
end being demolished and, its occu.
pants hurled far out into an open lot
and killed
In a more popnlous quarter, a bomb
struck a six story apartment building
occupied by the families of working
men, cutting it in two from garret to
cellar, burying 10 victims under the
debris OF the central part of the struc.
ture. ali rF sl "
Altogether dozen bombs weigh
ing about 600 pounds each were drop
ped. None of the fatalities occurred
in the open streets, the majority OF
the victims being killed in their beds
One of the bombs fell in the court
yard of hotel. corporal return
ing from the front at Hartmans-W We'll
erkopf had just entered the hotel with
his wife, when the explosion occurred
.'My first move said the soldier
was to lie fat on my chest. compel
ing my wife to the same. We do this
instinctively when German shells
burst near us on the line. No sooner
had we done so when the girders OF
the building gave way, precipitatine
us to the floor below. Fortunately we
were only slightly injured. | had also
thought OF asphyxiating gas, and cried
to open the windows. But that was
not necessary; they were all broken
Another bomb destroyed modest
dwelling killing husband and wife
but only slightly injuring their foul
children. In curious contrast witt
the general calm was the sudder
death from fright of the 81 year ole
chief OF the Gobelins telephone Office
at the moment he learned of the Yep
pelin raid Seven members of the
Petit Jean family were celebrating
the return of a zouave on leave Of alb
sence. A bomb fell on the building
destroying it and killing the entir,
| family, including the zouave.
Five French aeroplanes are said t,
have fired on the Zeppelin, one o
them pursuing it toward the west TO
more than so minutes.