Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-01

ron dropped bombs few hundred feet
from an American field hospital. and
at tho same time one OF the long
4 range guns shelled village few
hundred yards away
The first alarm was sounded at IL
O'Clock. The dropping OF bombs and
the firing OF many antiaircraft guns
began almost immcdia tely. After a
brief pause the raiders returned, 10
remain almost until dawn.
"A new american evacuation hospital
( had been opened only Wednesday in a
OF II Wednesday night and shattered
1 windows. but none OF the patients was
injured.
In some instances the bombs fell
within thirty and forty feet of a hos
pital building. but fortunately, there
were no direct hits. \ trench nurse,
her mother and two little sisters we're
Killed in house a short distance from
hospital Another nurse was stand
Ing on the upper floor of the hospital
ministering to patients. when piece
OF bomb struck her. piercing her lung.
FIVE AMERICAN
NURSES IN DANGER
Five American nurses were in the
same hospital-Miss Mary McCandlish,
OF Atlanta: Miss Natalie Scott. of New
Orleans; Miss Helen Spalding, of Brook
Ign: Miss Blanche Gilbert, of Cleve-
land, and Miss Constance Cook, of San
Francisco. While the raid was in prog
ress they went about cheering the pa
tients Although many serious cases
OF sick and wounded were aggravated
because they had 10 be moved. the
nurses had 10 carry them TO the lower
floors and tho cellar
1t was an exciting time" said Miss
Scott, but there was no panic. Some
OF our boys actually slept through IL
all. although their beds were showcred
with broken glass"
AMBULANCEs PERFORATED
BY FLYING MISSILES
Three American ambulances we're
caught in the raid. Sergeant Ethan
Wells. OF San Francisco, who was driv-
ing the first ambulance, said:
Our three ambulanccs were hurry
ing 10 hospitals with patients when Il
bomb wrecked a building directly in
front of us. in narrow street Our
ambulance was perforated by flying
missiles. We were all hurled out, but
escaped with a few scratches"
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THOSE KILLED BY HUNS
a Canadian hospital also was at
tackled and partly burned by another
German airraidins party.
Among those killed by the explosion
or flames was an American medical
officer who was administering an
anaesthetic to British officer in the
operating room when tina, part of the
y ct,It Il
CURED at 1850 o'clock in the morning
The hospital attacked was a large
one. 1t had been in existence since
the early days OF the war. and was
marked by huge Red Cross signs The
German airmen, working partly by the
light of the moon. dropped four bombs
near the hospital. and then, not APP
parently able to see exactly where they
were hitting. lighted a brilliant flare,
which was let fall to illuminate the
surroundings.
MANY KILLED WHEN
BUILDING COLLAPSES
AS the place was lighted up by this
faTe, they released another bomb or
two, which dropped squarely on a large
wing OF the hospital. In this wing
there were three floors, on the bottom
On the story above were the office and
patients room, and above them were
members OF the hospital personnel.
Part Of the wing was demolished by
the terrific explosion. and many un-
fortunate persons were killed and
wounded when the building collapsed
and buried them.
strange to say. those who were on
the top floor had better luck than those
below them, and several escaped be-
cause they fell on top of the debris
The surgeons were just about TO
operate on an aviation officer and the
American medical officer was standing
by with the anacsthe;ic when the
crash came. All those in the room
were buried under an avalanche OF
brick and woodwork. The demolished
wing caught fre.and burned hercely.
with many victims .stili pinned in the
wreckage.
NOTHING MORE HORRI1LE
SINCE WAR STARTED
Nothing more awful has occurred in
the annals OF the hospital service since
the war began. Every available per.
son In tha reighhorhood was called
ont TO assist in the rescue work and
Two nrc br!Sades were called in
Disorders in Ukraine are reported
II is stated that several villages near
h!ev were drenched with poisonous
gas by the Germans and that whole
communities were asphyxia,ed
The United States transpor, Presi-
dent Lincoln, "A former German liner,
has been torpcdced and sunk while
on trip 10 this country from Eurone
The vessel sank within an hour after
being struck by the torpedo. but the
numbe. CT lives lost is not vet known
GERMANS DRIVEN hack