Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-16
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Federated Press Staff Correspondent
Clifton. Boone County. W. n
Hell from the heavens on wegae,s'
wives and children and the gea
Cross = sAirnlsne raiders hufllnK
bombs aud poison gas On villages aud
haspi,slss
Such headlines would stream across
eur great American daiiies Il they had
Z 'suthmils reported thu warfare in
West Virginia and the air raids
'eeins aen.eomhatanta when the frht.
ing turned against sheriff Don chat,
rs tnrees and news came from the
front tha, his machine runners wars
ho.nS driven from their positions
The tirsi raids took place Thursday
afternoon near the little mininx town
OF 9afffeN thirts.inch bomb struck
hetweaa Mrs, Saille Polly and her
married daaghier, Mrs Liddie oxley,
as thes we're doing their weeks wash,
ms alnnssile OF their house, A dosan
other rersens were nearby and would
have been killed had the bomb atruek
pin ti.s, instead Of sideways II was
loaded With " pounds of powder and
huhdteuH OF iron nuts
nomh followed bomb IN Jeffrey.
sharnies. beech cne-h and nlair for
three days. Twenty iron bombs and
as many gas bombs fell Only a few
bombs exploded and iheHe damarei
The earth. the ayiatora flying too high
Tor accuracy. Two bombs fell at tha
miners mess hall In Jeffrey. Two
bombs hurled on Friday, where thfea
men we're dining, missed their mark
and failed To explode. Machine run
fire TINT followed from the airplans
was equally ineffective.
Saturday morning as the soldiers
who had Just arrived we're pitching
their tents outside Jeffrey, n bolnh
crashed into the earth twenty feet
away without exploding
Nearly all these hombs struck from
a quarter OF a mile 10 three miles he.
hind the lines. hut two others foil In
The vicinity OF an emergency hospita,
az the front, six miles up Hewitt
Creeh from Jeffrey Several wounded
miners were being treated there at
the time, The hospital had been a
school house
eaa honb oyereame Rcd cross
nurse. bound FOR this hospital In "A
Red Cross automobile Saturday morn.
ing She was Mrs. uula Chambers.
\ volunteer from Jeffrey with her
WAS Mra BERTHE CurranE, trained
nurse from Russell. Ky, who had
crossed the state line 10 assist IN the
care oi the wounded. They wers Ia
an autninchilts that 1t~riaycd brilitsnt
Red Crosse markings on aide and top.
ma Il inoa that fha \ xiafar s<.,,la nat
have fullsd 10 see
TIE Doctors car. similarly marked.
had nassed Sharpiea before. Down
crashed a large glass bottle from an
airplane high up In the aky and n
grneniah cloud and airkaning fuinns
arose from the earth. The expert.
enced nurse covered her face IN
time, but Mrs, Chambers got several
whiffs of the poison and was over.
come. All through the next two days
aud nights pains shot through her
noae and head and her noae bied In.
tormittently, She has not entirely re-
covered TO date,
Several other persons we're affect.
cd by other gas bombs, but not serl.
ouRly
The gas was found by analysis OF
the stained corks OF several of the
shattered bottles to be chlorine gaa,
which In a deadly poison Two physl.
clans and u chemist are ready TO tes.
tify TO their analysis and to produce
the evidence.