The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-04-24
ETHER TO REVIVE
PAINTING WOMAN IS
MISTAKEN FOR GAS
Sixty Die in Panic When Visions
of Hun Asphyxiating Attack
Are Conjuied Up by Parisians

Paris April a. Fume of 10 bottle
eft either used To revive "a faiutiuE
woman mistaken FOR usphyNiiting g's
from a bomb dropped by o Gcrmg'
air raider, caused tho pariC at ths
Metropolitan subway station .u whlch
sixty or moro women and children
were crushed To- death or smothcrcl
during the Hun raid ON the night ot
March ~.
The crowd had remained outside tho
subway station waiting tu hear tn
German bomb explode before takin.
90 cover \ woman iu the crowd fee.
jug 90 her husband held a flask ~
ether to her nose.
What a smeu, said someone. Til.
remark. overheard back Ia the crowd
was taken to ylggest gas From that
stcp to 'asphvXlatiug gas was casg
Ia l"ss time than 10 requires 10 tell ~
the report went through the crowd
that the last bomb that exploded nca
hN sHs % gas bomb That caused q MAI
rush of the crowd uuwn the stairs ~
the subway station against doors open
ing outward. lu the press the duo"-
couldn't bo opened until % score ~
children % TWO score women per
lshcd
False lists OF places whore bomb.
fell were circulated those prrsum5hi,
hy agent. Of the enemy tu work upon
ia" morale of each different quarter
ftutlsiI, stories were spread about
the German u~ViaturS fyiu. low
'nuu"h at certain points 90 fire with
their machine guns upon the ncyins
people. The fact ls hat not a single
German machine could be- aceE crcir',
sNHsaFUI g.. NNAaAHHH. A a.f III. -HLH q
worked upon the minds Of impression
able persons.
The conduct OF the audience in tho
different places Of amusement ma.
be taken as indicati,e 81 the at,ltud
OF Paris toward the raiders Few spec.
tators left their seats when the last
raid waS announced toward the mid
die Of the performance.
SYLVAN. playing the role of the old
Viue-growcr iu the 'NOccs Dorinthior-
mes at tho Coincide Franchise. inter
rupted himself long enough Go say
simply ~ am told they are soundipp
The alarm. ,hcn went ou with hi'
muHuluguc. Between the I"t- the spu'.
tator- went Ia the cellar bu' returned
immediately after Inspecting the lin
collection Of busts that had beer
taken there FOR safety.
At tho Fnllcs Berger" the urChcstf
PLAYED a. different one OF the natioua.
anthems OF the allies after the rcpo'i
pf each explosion and the Judicuc,
sang those they knew It the Foli"
Mar,ruy on the Champs I1ysccs q
uiccc Iu which the atrocities % th'
Huns i- represented enthuScd th'
crowd uN reason Of The comparison
with he work of the raiders
~ Vaudeville GplipauN the Mcr,
oi thautrclor continued ms muuulngI.
after announcing the raid. then Irls~c'
thc hat for The benefit OF the victims
Throughout the raid there We.
people 100 the street. iu every quartc'
IN Paris There were more than d
hundred uu the Place tie 0 ppcgrt Ju
outside the entrance To- one OF tn.
subway shelters. At every corucf
people caught away from their homc'
~disdaininE offered Shcltcrs and crop
ing their way homcward as we'll q.
they could, exchanged information =.
To- whore the, were. unable to per
reiyc anything In the pitch darkness.
All persons abroad had the right Z,
ratcr the first building they came I.
and doors were opened at he first
summons. hat the wuyfarcr in most
cases simply wanted To- know where h
was.
Hundreds fclt their way through
heaps Of broken glass and climbed
over debris a. points whore bombs had
lust fallen. giving them the sensation
uf serumbliug over % battlefield Puri.
had hocumc "a part ~ "tho runt'