The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22
SCENES OF HORROR OCCASIONED
BY GERMAN AIR BOMBING PARTY
DESCRIBED BYAN EYE WITNESS
Mothers With Babes in Arms Blown to Pieces as Explo
sives are Dropped into Crowded Shopping District
in England of lead from Machines Perforates
Hotel Building Fatherless Girls Killed

of a hotel, and practically unroofed
stories, and no one was hurt. Shrap-
mel bullets came flying thick and fast
through the walls of the house across
the road.
1--WE were a fortunate family" the
occupier told me a few hours later
when / interviewed him, tfor my wife
was near the railway station and my
daughter in the street where the
shops were demolished. Bombs fell
across close to us all, and none of
us was SO much as scratched.
Another shopkeeper. whose win
dows had been blown in showed me
pieces of the shrapnel which had
flown all about the shop and pitted
the walls.
Y 1--WE had time to get down to the
cellar he said, or some of us might
have been hurt.
A large detached villa was struck
on the roof. and half of its front and
one whole side were torn away, leav-
ing the other roof and passages open
to the streets. It presented a pathet-
ic spectacle of ruin. Fragments of
the stairs were hanging in places, and
the large bedroom has hardly been
disturbed, except that the inside wall
was gone. Dress cases and hat boxes
are piled quite in orderly way, and
pictures in the exposed passage-way
below were still hanging straight on
the wall.
The garden was heap of debris.
From under this the body of the cook.
the one victim, was recovered short
ly before midnight.
A mothers six-year-old boy, Err
nest, was struck in the back at her
side. He died without pain. His sis
ter, Irene, aged three, had her skirts
perforated with shell splinters, some
of which were embedded in her moth
er's corsets, who was near her, but
the child was in no way hurt. The
mothers injuries were not dangerous.
The manager of a place of business
picked up four dead children he had
seen a minute before playing in front
of his door. One was headless and
still clasped in his arms parcel OF
groceries.
81 was completely overcome, and
collapsed" said the manager. 'The
sight of these little mangled bodies
will haunt me to my last days.
A soldier who was among the first
of the rescuers told me that he re-
cognized young woman whom he
knew amid the wreckage of the dra-
per's shop. She was alive and tried
to speak to him.
s.As carried her o1,t.,' the soldier
said, .tlle poar girl broke In two. j
have been in many tight corners al
the front. and have seer, MANY nerve
trying sights. but nothing ever
brought my heart to my mouth like
| that experience"
An ex-soldier WHOSE ears a,,ic,sly
discerned the danger. sho1,ted to
those near him to lie down where
tthev were. Men and uonoan did as IL
told them. and may owe their lives tc
their good sense for chewing the sol.
dier,s order. for bombs were exnlod.
ing all around.
ssHe gave his orderst Ike a sereaao+
ma ior IN raradau s.;d -
with her two danghtars Low, 5n1,,,, !,
1.-THE streets. eve instantIv did as be
told us. and felt cutie safa 1v,nr ~
the centre of the ROAD listarsn9 =
/ the din of the bonohardn,e,,+ Wo,, :.
Ian right there. shouted orr com ~, =,
der. unless a bomb drons daad =,
YOU. and IT'S .. house 10 b.,,saa[
i against that Don't rft vonr rae Il
! until it's ali over. BURSTING fsbal1
j son1etfmes sween Ioyu,,,