Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
DROP BOMBS
ALL AROUND
BUT HIT NONE
Soldier Patients Rushed
to Cellars - Flying
Glass Hurts Few
BULLETIN.

Z BULLETIN.
With the British Army in
France, May 81, by the ASsO-
ciated Press Another big
british hospital Was bombed by
German aifmen early yesterday
morning and once more many
medical workers and some pa
ITEMS were killed and wounded.
The hospital caught hre after
a large section OF the building
had been demolished by d
bomb. A few women nurses
we're among the slain and their
bodies, together with those OF d
considerable number more OF
the personnel and patients are
buried In the ruins, according
TO the latest reports.
With the American Army in
France, Thursday, May 30.-(By
the Associated PTess.y-uer-
maa airmen made a preten .iOus
raid on the are behind the
American lines in Picardy last
night. Bombs were dropped on
all sides OF enc OF the largest
hospitals in a town many miles
to the rear of the front. Amer
lean and French wounded sol
diers were carried TO cellars
and caves by Am arican nurses
End members OF the American
Red Cross.
Only a few persons we're in
iured by flying glass as most Of
the windows in the hospitals
had been shattered by bombs
dropped the previous night.
Several private houses were
wrecked and a number of civil
ians, including several babies,
we're killed and Injured.
That the raid was planned on {
Iuch larger scale than recent one:
YER this territory is evidenced
'om reports made by many Amer
ans in villages over which tht
aiders passed. The Germans came
wave formation and then scat
red widely One squadron drop
ed bombs a few hundred feet from
D American field hospital and a
lie same time one of the long range
ms shelled a village a few hun
red yards away.
Nike All Night Stay.
The first alarm was sounded a
o'clock. The dropping of bombs
I'd the firing of many anti-aircTaft
ms began almost Immediately
ater there was a brief pause. after
hich the raiders returned to re
ain almost until dawn.
In some instances the bombs fel
thin 80 or 40 feet of a hospita
Hiding. but, fortunately, there
ere no direct hits. A French
lrse. her mother and two little
sters, were killed in a house {
lort distance from a hospital. An
her nurse was standing on the
,per floor of the hospital, minis
ring to patients, when a piece oi
'mb struck her, piercing her lung
Nurses Stick at Posts.
Five American nurses were il
2 same hospital. They were Miss
atalie Scott OF New Orleans, Miss
ellen Spalding of Brooklyn, Miss
ary McCadlish of Atlanta anC
iss Constance Cook of San Fran
SEQ.
While the raid was in progress
ey went about cheering the pa
snts. Although many cases ol
OK and wounded were aggravated
cause they had to be moved, the
lrses had to carry them to the
Eer floors and the cellar
1t was an exciting time" said
ISIS Scott, but there was no panic
'me of our boys actually slept
Tough it all, although their beds
ere showered with broken glass
Three AmbuIances Caught.
Three American ambulancee
ere caught in the raid. SergeaE;
nan Wells. of San Francisco,
no was driving the first ambu-
Ice. said.
Our three ambulances were
IRVING TO hospitals with patients
hen a bomb wrecked q building
feetly in front of us. in a mar
" street Our ambulance was
'riorated by flying missiles We
ere hurled out but escaped with
lew scratches"
fhe second car received the full
rec OF the explosion and was
,ecked completely.
Private Roscoe Wiley. Madison
'ie' Texas. was driving the third
Sergeant J. ". Nolder, of Al
oha, Pa, and three patients were
II him.
mere was wreckage slI around
! said Sergeant Nolder. In
REQ civilians in the shattered
uses nearby were begging fo-
-. We all pitched in as soon as
mad recovered from the shock
q assisted In the work Of res
We had TO dig many persons
pa the debris. by the light OF
All pocket lamps. Meanwhile
eny aircraft were buzzing over
10. The barrage was deafening.
mos continued to fall. II was
Use than anything in the trench
l would rather have been in
-dans land"