Arizona republican., 1917-06-18
AMERICAN TELLS
 OF HORRORS IF
 TOMBSTONE RAID
Correspondence Of the Associated

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 i TOMBSTONE, England. May 31.-
 Among those who experienced the hOr-
 TOTS of the recent German air raid on
 Folkestone in which many persons were killed and injured. was the Rev , Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City, Mo. | n a statement given the Associated
 Press MT. Jenkins graphically described the record breaking attack and told of his sensations during the rain of de- structiOn from the sky.
 Tt was our first time under fire and t remnaed me of a Missouri cyclone" he said. The only drawback to this comparison is that the sun was shining
 m clear blue sky over t piacid sea. As the shells were crashing around IS and houses were caving in. before 1
 knew it I was humming long forgot ten tune, doubtless subconsciousiy as- 'ociated with those old days. Two other men in our party independently testi-
 fled that they also began singing softly.
 Perhaps this tendency to sing or
 whistle is a manifestation of nerves
 and explains why troops always do so
 when we see them embarking for
 France; they know that next day they
 will be in the trenches-may be over
 the parapet. At all events, We all con-
 fessed to nerves and fear
 Most people took to the cellars. Had l known there was a cellar handy, or that it is considered good form in the circumstances, I should have followed; fOTs soon found myself alone on the
 leas overlooking the sea- where I had
 gone at the first cry Of Zeps.
 When l rushed out of our house by
 the seaside, I found crowds gazing up
 ward in the direction of the sun.
 could see nothing of the flare; neither
 apparently could others.
 Suddenly two little girls cried: there
 they are!' Then I saw them. two air planes, not Zeppelins. emerging from the disc of the sun almost overhead. men four more, or five, in a line and
 others all like bright silver insects hOvering against the blue of the sky.
 Then the air was split by the whistle and rush of the first bomb, which sounded like the shrill siren of car. This was followed at once by detona- tion that shook the earth I heard mo- tOdy shriek, weep or cry alond. The people were marvelously controlled. 1 ' glanced in the direction of the shell burst. hundred yards away and the debris was still going up like a column of smoke. Then came two more strokes, apparently in the same spot. Then three other bombs fell afterward found the missiles wrecked the O-hotel and wounded our motor driver.
 Then another bomb demolished the manor house by the sea. Two others now fell in the water behind me, and the gravel and mud and water spouted up in a geyser to the top of the ciiffs where 1 stood. Later I learned that one of these shots tore off the legs of |. little boy playing with his sister The mother lay ill faint and the little sis ter, driven mad, rushed biindly into tie water. She was rescued by wounded soldier.
 Other shots fell, but I could count
 no further. They came thick and fast l like cracking, like blasts of our western lightning. But there were 200 or more I casualties. nearly a hundred of them fatalities.
 Anti aircraft shells were now burst 1 ing in the air. Then followed in the dis
 tance the purr of the machine guns,
 and we knew that our own planes were fContinued on Page Two)