The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-20


 were leaving the city for the east coast with women and children.
 A special commission was organ izod to go to the coast and seek food supplies.
 The new loyalist air fleet took to tho air again at dawn to watch for nationalist raiding planes.
 Shelter Destroyed
 In . raid late yesterday, . na- tionalist bomb dropped squarely on the roof of the shop and went through to the cellar. Tn the cellar. as thickly as they could crowd, men, women and children were taking shelter from the raiding planes. There was no light. The building crashed down and 60 or more peo- pie were buried under timber, stones, and debris. Civilians began try ing to pull the tons of wreckage away with their hands. An hour later militiamen and firemen ar rived and began the long work oi getting down beneath the debris. It seemed questionable whether a single person escaped without ter rible injuries. It was believed that only . few were killed outright.
 Bombs Find Targets
 Each bomb that dropped seemed to find a target that could do most damage to civilians. One wounded or killed 50 women and children which fell in Caravaca street. Fly ing shrapnel caught many hiding in doorways and ripped through a line of women and girls waiting for rations before a food shop. They had refused to take shelter because they feared they would lose their places and get no food for their families. In the Puerta Del Sol. the heart of the city, Q cafe plazetl brightly through the night. A great department store which caught fire Tuesday was budning still in Alcala street. It was estimated that dam age from this fire approximated already 1O,000,000 pesetas q 1885, ,OOo)
 Streets R0ped Off
 Police and militia roped off streets all over the city where damage was most severe. Only Skeletan staffs were maintained at the postoffice and other great government build ings which had been under heavy fire. Street car service was suspended on all principal lines because oi torn tracks and uprooted power lines. More than 1000 refugees were sheltered in the spacious eel lars of the American owned Ma tional Telephone building, where Sosthenes Behn of New York, head of the company, was in charge oi relief work.
 Blankets, mattresses and rugs Uttered the floor of the 13-story "skyscraper," highest office build ing in Madrid. Babies sat wakeful wide eyed, beside their mothers Women and girls huddled together under thin cotton blankets. Many children were crying for food. Some women sat alone on the stone floors tears falling from red trimmed eyes as they thought of husbands and brothers out fighting.
 Her Children Killed
 One woman was crying unre- strainedly. A United Press corre- spondent sought to help her. She did not seem to see him. A girl, evidently her servant, told the cor respondent the woman's two chill dren had been killed in the last raid. The woman did not even move her head while the maid was taking.
 A communique asserted that three nationalist German Junkers bomb- CTS and two pursuit planes were shot down yesterday, and it was admitted were 70 planes in the nationalist fleet that bombed the city late yes- terday.
 Fighting lines remained the same. and chiefs of the defense council expressed themselves satisfied with Che morale and fighting quality oi the 60.O0O to 5000 men who are defending the city.