The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-03-14
HATE OF HUNS SHOWN IN RAID
How Women and Children Arc
ButChcred by Bombs


dencc OF the Associated Press) The
nlurderous work of Il German ctr
plane raider by whose bombs many
women and children were crushed or
burned TO death in a recent raid on
London is wildly described in an in
tcrview by one OF the victims in the
Daily Chronicle. 1t is such stories
rs this state have reused the Briton
to grim wrath and the demand for
vengeance. The narrator, man.
had taken refuge in shelter with
women and children.
We had scarcely got the last of
the people in when the bomb fell
said the man. "All OF them had
been as calm and cheerful AS YOU
could wish up to then. The children
particularly were fine. They were
singing The Bull Dog Breed and
Way Down in Tennessee and the
younger kiddies were yelling untn
most of them tumbled of to sleep In
their mothers arms or on the piles
OF paper strewn about the place.
Then came the explosion. There
was short sharp Kissing sound
which l suppose il made in it's des-
cent, which even in the basement we
could hear quite distinctly, and then
came the crash. worse than any
thing l have ever heard. think
most OF us down there were stunned
for moment or two, and the air
seemed full Of flying pieces Of con
crete. Fortunately I was just out
side two big iron doors at the time.
so ! escaped the worst of 1t, but
think it must have been at that time
my hand was injured
Fragments were blocking up the
exit, and We had to fight throush to
clear way out. 1t was pitifsl to
hear the women, some calling Dis
tractedly for their children, and
others screaming that their babies
had been killed in their arms. Some
OF the children were brought out
dead.
''Our firemen were at work as
as possible, but in few
minutes The whole place was like
furnace. The boi,b had fallen and
exploded, yet not more than ten feet
away came across two little
children standing absolutely un-
touched. They were crying with
fright, and ! got hold OF them and
managed TO get them out That was
about the last | remember Of il, for
almost Immediately fainted-I
*uppoS" with the pain of my hand
Of u.li i.l ,,,,l,
seem conscious.
"One great mass OF concrete,
weighing, l should rhink, about half
a ton, had fallen down right on q
group OF four women. Three OF
them were killed outright, l think,
but the fourth was only pinned down
and was screaming out to be Releas-
cd. Four OF us tried to get her out.
but We couldn't make the stonework
bulge an inch, although we tried to
lever ii up with all kinds OF things.
All the time the flames were get
ting fercer and fiercer and eon1ne
nearer and nearer, and at length one
great burst OF flames and snete
drove us right away, setting lige to
our clothes. and we could not ss,
near the woman again One of the
men was alight from head to foot,
and we had to roll him in the water,
which was ankle deep, before We
could put out the flames.
It's simple horrible inside
there. a fireman told me. Masses Of
stuff had fallen down, making es-
cape impossible for some of the peo-
pie, and We found them crouchcd
down in all sorts OF corners, all dead,
where they had obviously tried to
get away from the flarlc and smoke.
one woman was kneeling down with
two littl" mites .huddled up to her
1T took five men to lift up one
great lump of concrete which Law
across womans' legs. She was
dead, partly from burning and partly
from suffocation, think"