The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-17
14-Hour Air Attack
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he discussed critical questions with these delegates.
 Then the cabinet resumed it's ses- sion to consider the undisclosed de- mands which the communist dele gates made to Neerin.
 Turmoil Again
 The city was thrown into panic again at p. m. when squadrops of insurgent planes roared over on the twelfth attack. Bombs dropped at short intervals along the main bou- levards.
 Cafes damned by lunch hour crowds became charnel houses. It was estimated that 500 were killed and 1000 gravely wounded in this raid alone. Hundreds ran scream ing into the streets.
 One bomb hit a crowded railway station, injuring hundreds.
 As this correspondent sat at his desk telephoning London, the wall of the United Press office fell in. The desk was Smothered by debris.
 Windows crashed down from the detonation of bombs in the nearby central squares, where the casual ties were heavy. Direct Hits Made The planes flew over the central streets and dropped their loads. The bombs made direct hits on at least four large buildings. Buses and street cars crashed and overturned in the streets.
 The streets were crowded with panic stricken people. Three of the heaviest bombs ever want to know dropped so close that windows shook for minutes. The United Press office was badly wrecked. The adjoining wall of the Western Electric office collapsed. My desk is covered with calcimine, glass and plaster.
 Leading hotels on the main boule- wards were hit.
 This raid came without warning. The first sign was broken glass fal- ling from the walls.
 Blown Out Of Bed
 For the second time in ten hours Harold Peters, of the United Press staff had his bed blown out from under him by the concussion of bomb at the Hotel Ritz. He es- caped injury however. Colonel Stephen Fuqua, American military attache, was knocked out of his chair.
 People in the streets fled in ter TOT, but they knew not where to find safety.
 Foremen rushed about to extin- guish score of fires that could be seen from the United Press office. Volunteer workers dug bodies from the debris.
 The bombs were the largest ever used in raids here. The explosions crushed two cafes and killed from 200 to 300 lunchers within.
 Earlier two bombs struck one of the principal railway stations where 400 persons were gathered. One hundred were estimated killed and most of the others were injured.
 Warning Sirens Screamed
 Throughout the night and day the air raid alarms had screamed their warnings, but Barcelona was un- prepared for the 2 p. m. bombing. Most of the people did not know the raiders had returned until bombs began bursting, many of them along the streets where the finest build 1ngS were located.
 Some of the bombs hit directly in the streets crowded by pedestrians, street cars and busses. It was be- lieved 200 persons met instant death in streets alone.
 In the middle of one street, two women frantically sought a child that had been with them. Appar- ently the child had been blown up, leaving the women untouched.
 Bus Driver Blown Up
 A bus driver was blown out of his seat by the concussion of a bomb His lifeless hands still gripped the steering wheel.
 Three empty and overturned baby carriages stood in another principal boulevard. There were no children in them.
 In front of the United Press of- flee a crippled woman who sold lottery tickets had disappeared. Her wheel chair was empty although no one had seen her walk in ten years. It was believed she had crawled to- ward the subway and was picked up by an ambulance. Her lottery tick cts were scattered on the sidewalk and street.