The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-25
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minor injuries. but were able to be
sent home in the arms OF their an
guished parents.
Only one Of the three bombs drop
ped hereabouts struck the school
building. Happily it dashed through
the end of the great block. Had 1t
pierced the centre the casualty list
would have been much greater.
For a time the elias mistress was
alone In her terrible difficulty, but she
kept he'd head, splendidy,1 and sue
ceeded in getting the injured chill
dren safely from the rooms into the
passage. In a short time she had
fine helper in Private II. w. Flowers,
a Territorial Reserve, on leave at his
hame near by.
He said to me:
Bringing Out the Injured and Dead
.'I had been out for a constitutional,
and hearing what I thought was gun
firing. stopped to speak to police
man. Just then there was another
explosion, and the policeman, pointing
upwards, said: 1.-THE raiders are out.
Good heavens! They have got the
school! Run around and give them all
the help you can, and will get the
police
81 dashed round to the school as the
policeman advised, and there found
the clas mistress, who had got the UNI
injured children int othe passage,
whree, If there came another bomb,
they would be. less likely ODE hurt.
She was all alone until I came, then
we both set to work to get out the in
jured.
I'VE were frantic for ambu1ances,
and it was impossible to carry them to
the hospital, which is half a mile
away Just then two OF Barrett's GIN
GERBER lorries drew up, and the driv-
er suggested that he should help. We
packed the poor little souls on the lor-
ries as gently. as We could, and he
drove as If he was afraid Of something
giving way. And so at last we got
them to the hospital. Some of the
mothers were almost insane with grief,
and when they couldn't find their own
child would rush through the bodies
looking for it., And when you remem-
Der that there was hole in the floor
feet deep and covering the whole
area of the classroom it will be UNI
derstood what that meant. The worst
part OF our task was the Iast-that OF
picking up the mutilated fragments Of
humanity"
Unforgettable Nightmare Scene
Mrs. Page, who has children of her
own, fortunately in neighboring
school. told sad stories Of the scenes
"I shall never forget the nightmare
of it all, she said. 1T seemed as II
the whole of the children must have
been stricken. There was procession
that was heartrending to witness. And
when / went on to my roof, which
overlooks the school grounds, I found
that portions of the bodies of the vic
TINS had been blown right over a wall
and soldiers were looking even among
the branches of trees for the human
wreckage they dreaded to find"
Within the City
"One block of offices and shops was
responsible for the largest batch of the
thirty-one deaths within the city,
That block was one which is well
known to and passed daily by thous-
ands of London's population. It stood
at the corner OF a main thoroughfare
and narrow bystreet.. Business prem
ises, with the offices above them, were
involved In the ruin wrought by the
explosion of single bomb.
At Least Twelve Dead
Even late at night after the raid the
exact number OF deaths was unknown;
estimates varied from a dozen Nup-
wards. It was certain that twelve were
dead, and no one knew what might yet
be found under the great heap of de-
bris which completely filled up the
narrow by-road.
It was a four-storied building. and
the wreckage extended to every floor
Over tobacconist's. an ironmonEers
and a leather sellers nothing was left
existing above the second story. The
whole of the two higher floors col
poured down into the streets like 8
miniature avalanche
How many were injured no one
knew, but q passing "General'' ornni
bus had to be Communicated to con,
vey the first-aided batch of victims
dead, dying and injured, to hospital
Rescued by Fire Escape
"A fire broke out, but the flames
were soon subdued by the firemen
who were on the spot within a few
minutes. They labored like Trojan
to aid those buried and imprisoned II
| the building, and exciting rescu
scenes were witnessed by the hug
crowd which packed the streets.
1 With great difficulty one of the fire
men assembled to the third floor, wher
he rescued an injured an unconsciou
girl from the wreckage, and CARRIE
her down the escape. His movement