The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-07
TINY BLAST VICTIMS
2 NIGHTS IN WOODS
Three Dazed and Hungry Chill
dren Found by Red Cross
Oh Road to Morgan.
LIGHT ADDED TO TERROR
Driven From Their Home by
Shell Explosions and Parents
Are Missing.


Down a lonely road from South AM
boy toward the big bridge that runs
over the Raritan River a Red Cross
car was being driven yesterday morning
by a determined little woman who had
been leading her automobile corps girls
into the ruined town OF Morgan and
even to the ruined and smoking loading
plant. There was supposed to be moth
ing on that road but cars bent on the
grim business OF carrying the dead or
else carrying officials and supplies into
the torn town of South Amboy. and so
It was only natural that she pulled her
car up suddenly with squeaklng brakes.
For out of the brush on the edge Of
the road came three tired ana scared
little figures, their clothing wet and torn,
their faces dirty and streaked by the
tears which had poured from frightened
eyes. They didn't say anything. but
Just stood huddled close together and
watching the kindly faced woman, who
jumped from her big car and gathered
them all into her arms. And then they
cried again and hid their heads against
her and snusg!ed up close to the first
real. big live person they had seen stree
the day DeIore.
Tired, Hungry ana wonderin
They were so hungry their little tum-
mics ached, so tired they oould hardly
stand. and they didn't know where their
mother was or their father or any OF
the people they had known in South
Amboy before the chimneys had come
tumbling down and grown folks ran
NJ ha NJ Aata ri nd n
and looking for the next fare in the
sky over the hill. They didn't know
much of where they had been, but when
the ambulance Lieutenant piled them in
her car and took them back to Perth
Amboy she learned little OF the night
those children had spent in the dark
underbrush.
When the explosions came the chill
dren ran out with their parents and
shared with them the terror of the carly
evening Friday when the town heaved
and lifted under the impact OF tons Of
INT. Then when it quieted down they
had gone to bed lulled by the assurance
OF their mother that It was all right and
went TO sleep 1t was the middle OF
black night. early on Saturday. when
the crash came that drove them all
children and father and mother--to the
distractedly.
Somehow they, became separated from
their mother. ard in the panicky fight
through the black streets and roads TO
the country the children went. too, fol-
lowing as best they could. Always was
that great crashing behind them, and
tho binding white flashes in the sky,
and so frightened we're they that they
could harlly see to keep the road.
After the curve. where the tide of
refugees turned down toward the river
and the big bridge. the youngsters were
20 tired and scared they did not dare
go further and crept UP into the under
! brush where the darkness seemed safer
| than to stay in the light of that leaping
flame behind.
spent Lone Night OF Fright.
There was Sophie Karnowski. S years
old her brother Michael. Z. and the
baby, who was only .. and could merely
clutch their hands and keep up as best
mis- short legs would let him. They
buried themselves deep in the bushes and
scrub oak. curled up in a little. misera-
BILE heap and Rugged each other for
warmth and the feeling OF safety which
came from being near to each other.
Sometimes they cried, and when the
ground moved under them and the trees
swayed with the passage OF the giant
blasts they Rugged each other tight and
screamed from fear.
They didn't know what it was all
about, they said, they only knew that
these flashes and great roars came from
something over the hill that was trying
to get at them. And so they stayed in
the dark woods, where II seemed safer
than out where they could be seen, and
waited. The waiting crowd OF refugees
flowed by down the road and finally was
gone, and daylight came and still the
children sat with their arms about one
another. too scared then to be hungry
and wanting their mother awfully.
By and by when II got light they
went out TO the road. but all they saw
going by were roaring trucks and auto
mobiles filled with soldiers and people
that the whole world had changed with
the coming of this noise and they had
better go back to the woods again
There Sophie cuddled them against her
and finally all three. too tired To stay
awake longer, worn out with crying, fell
asleep on the ground under the trees.
stin Hoping for Their Mother.
When they woke UP It was dark again
and of over the hill the rumbling siill
kept up, only not so loud. This time
when they went down TO the road it was
dark and empty except when an auto
mobile bounced by, Its headlight showing
up the long yellow dirt way. The chill