The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-06-01
"a KILLED AND 175 INJURED ~
sOUTHEiSTERN ENGLAND
BY GERMANS.
3 PLANES SHOT DOWN
Woven aud Children Waiting n
Line To Rug Potatoes
Chief Victims.

Women and children VIC lad $1,000
tor hour. .u q long line in the busiest
street here waiting 70 purchase Dota-
toes. we're the principal victims OF the
German 5lrDlare raid last evening.
Intent only on holding their places
u the line the women and children
had little warning Of the raid end
we're easy victims Of the air yu!tures.
Who dropped their deadly bombs in
tlscrimlus;cly. The raid. wnicn
claimed the lives Of seveGty-six per
sons and caused injuries to rs 9TH
srs. proved more deadly than any
raid which the ZepDelins have made
On England since the beginning Of
the var
Flying 50 high that they looked
like q eock Of ducks. the raiders.
rained dozens Of bombs on the busiest
block Of the main thoroughfs-e,
which vas cGoked with shoppers Of
every age and sex.
3 correspondent OF the Associated
Press visited the destroyed district
to-day He found = grocery store
fasi had collapsed and vas told by
me grocer. who lost two mem bers OF
ais family, that ter dead persons
we're found in the Debris Of the
building. 4 dozen more we're killed
and three score or more were 1T
lIrsd BY flying glass and bricks and
shrspnsi-iike fragments which were
scattered fDrcipiy by The bursting
homBS
Many persons lost their lives on
narrow s.a-r-like passa gewsy be-
tween tao buildings on this stree
Wien 2 bssIb hurst overhead, the
rD1cussinR killing them. All the viz
tins in this part Of the town were
struck down within 4 radius Of 200
yards.
One 81 the most striking results
YES the small property damage here
CON pared With the heavy loss OF Life.
This is thought n have been due 20
iuc tact iAst the bouhs happ-ns,i
% drop where large crowds Of shop
oers, augmented bY people attracted
70 the potato safe, we're gathered.
Homes Demolished.
II the residential sections ~ tn
lowu fashionable homes were So.
mHIisHed, Lgg or enc or tVs vtc.
Tins were fond in the ruins 70.
raiders maze heIisne over tEa
town, first bombing the r-aiaeata
section and thnH polti1g The shopping
district as they sar out 20 ST..
The casually r.r lpr this town
alone vas Tonight placed A. sixty
iead and 10 injured Large gangs
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VorH into tha night on huge piles IT
j@bSis Ia thc residential section.
There several persons are missing
minutes over this toxin They cane
ne raiders spent less Than three
'r,r places fa-saer Inland vLlca
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