The Sauk Centre herald., 1918-08-15
UNSDELIBERATELY
BOMBS HOSPITAL
STARS AND STRIPES, ARMY'S
OFFICIAL ORGAN IN FRANCE,
TELLS OF ATTACK.
WAS COLD-BLOODED MURDER
RED CROSS MARK ON HOSPITALS
VISIBLE 10000 FEET IN
THE AIR.

OF happenings which we will never
learn from our own newspapers. We
are given the technical points, but the
personal touch is often missing. This
clipping from the issue of July 10,
which has just been received in the
Herald office gives the personal ac-
count of the hospital bombing at
Juilly which was in the American
dailies at that time. It brings the
tragedy which the brave men meet,
just little closer home.
German airplanes on Monday night
made deliberate attack on the Am
erican Red Cross hospital at Juilly, rs
kilameters northeast Of Paris, and
dropped four bombs, two of which fell
squarely on the roofs of hospital tents,
killing two enlisted men among the
hospital personnel, wounding nine
other attendants, including nurse
and rewounding four patients under
going treatment.
Extended reports on the bombing
has been certified to Col. Harvey D.
Gibson, commissioner Of the American
Red Cross for France, by the organi-
zation's director of public information,
who conducted a personal inquiry on
the ground.
"The bombs were dropped on the hos
pital at II o'clock. At least two Ger
man avions participated in the raid.
Besides the two bombs that fell fairly
on the roofs of hospital tents, one fell
seven feet from the wall of another
tent, and one failed to explode. The
bombs made only shallow depression
in the ground and were evidently
designed not for penetrative power
but to scatter their fragments over
as wide an area as possible.
"There are no structures of any kind
near the hospital and the railway
tracks are three kilometers distant.
In addition to the usual markings OF
"a hospital, on the lawn Immediately
adjoining it is a cross formed OF
white duck, the extreme dimensions
of the arms being 80 meters. Photo
graphs recently taken from an air
plane show that this cross is visible
10000 feet in air.
"All questions as to the deliberate
character of the raid is removed by
the agreeing account Of seven wit
nesses, who stated that the Hun avia-
tors flew back and forth several times,
then shut off their engines, came down
to within a few hundred feet and
dropped their missiles after careful
observation that could not have failed
to show that they were bombing a
hospital.
Struck in Old Wound.
s "Of the enlisted men killed, one was
edisemboweled as he stood 40 feet from
the window of the operating room,
which was pierced by two pieces OF
bomb. These fragments passed with
in four feet of Major j. c. Mccoy, the
surgeon in charge. Major Mccoy was
holding the exposed femular artery
of q patient when the bomb fell and
all lights went out, leaving his own
and two other operating tables in
darkness. The other orderly killed
was holding up patient to give him
drink.
"One of the nine hospital attendants
injured had his leg amputated Tues
day. One of the four patients re-
wounded received piece of bomb in
the identical wound in his neck from
which a piece of shrapnel had been
removed a few hours previously. He
is Private Joseph A. Silino, of Phila-
delphia, and will recover from both
wounds.
aMiss Jeffry, the only Red Cross
nurse who was wounded, was struck
near the spine by piece of metal
which traversed the entire length OF
a ward only few inches above long
row Of mostly surgical cases, and
penetrated the end wall of the tent
outside of which she was standing.
Miss Jeffry, whose home address Is
Dorchester, Mass, is not seriously
hurt.
&C. S. Wheeler, who worked on the
installation of the hospital, was on the
ground at the time of the raid and dl-
rected his first efforts towards getting
the personnel out of danger.
ssThe Juilly hospital had until recent
" 60 German wounded prisoners who
received exactly the same treatment
accorded other patients and were even
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