The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-04-01
ARE
 MUTILATED BY
 AIRPLANE RAID


 ous work of German airplane raid. CT by whose bombs many women and children were crushed or burned to death in a recent raid on London is vividly described in an interview by one of the victims in the Daily Chron- icle. It is such stories as this that have reused the Briton to grim wrath and the demand for vengeance. The narrator. man, had taken refuge in shelter with many others, including number of 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 par ticularly were fine. They were sing ing The Bull Dog Breed and Way Down in Tennessee" and the younger kiddies were yelling until most of them tumbled off to sleep in their mothers arms or on the piles Of paper strewn about the place.
 "Then came the explosion. There was short. sharp missing sound, which I suppose it made in it's des cent, which even in the basement Ee could hear quite distinctly. and then came the crash, worse than any thing I have ever heard. I 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 it, but think it must have been at that time my hand was injured.
 Fragments were blocking up the exit, and we had to fight through to clear a way out. It was pitiful to hear the women, some calling out distractedly for their children, and others screaming that their babies had been killed in their arms. Some of the children we brought out were dead.
 Our firemen were at work as quickly as possible, but in a few minutes the whole place was like a furnace. The bomb had fallen and exploded, yet not more than ten feet away l came across two little child ren standing absolutely untouched They were crying with fright, and got hold of them and managed to get them out. That was about the last I remember about it, for almost i'm. mediately fainted-I suppose with the pain of my arm, of which only then did seem conscious.
 "One great mass of concrete weigh ing, I should think. about half ton, had fallen down right on a group of four women. Three of them were killed outright, I think, but the fourth was only pinned down and was screaming out to be released Four of us tried to get her out, but we couldn't make the stonework budge an inch, although we tried to lever 1t up with all kinds of things.
 All the time the flames were get ting f1ercer and fiercer and coming nearer and nearer. and at length one great burst of flame and smoke drove us right away, setting light to our clothes, and we could not get 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 simply horrible inside there. a fireman told me. Masses of stuff had fallen down, making escape i'm possible for some of the people, and we found them crouching down in all sorts of corners, all dead, where they had obviously tried to get away [ from the flame and smoke. One woman was kneeling down with two little mites huddled up to her.
 Tt took five men to lift up one great lump of concrete which lay across a woman's leg. She was dead, partly from burning and partly from SuffOcatiOn, l think"