TRAGIC RESULT
SEVERAL DEATHS IN FAMILY. MAYOR AND MAYORESS KILLED. , NAZI RAIDS ON BRITAIN. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 9.5 a.m). LONDON! October 14. As a result of raids during the night rescue squads early this morning extricated the bodies of the Mayor and Mayoress of a south-eastern town who had been trapped under the debris when the town was bombed and laterrecovered the bodies of their eldest son and a grand-daughter, aged four. Another grand-daughter was sent to hospital, where she died, and their daughter-in-law, two other women and a maid were sent to hospital seriously injured. A terrific anti-aircraft barrage was so successful against raiders over Liverpool and district last night and early this morning that only the last raider was able to come comparatively low.
It loosed its bombs indiscriminately and hit the two. ends of a large tenement block, causing casualties, including some children. Others shattered houses in working class streets. One, of heavy calibre, demolished two fourstorey houses. An elderly coloured man was rescued from the cellar after three hours'. He told the workers where to search for his wife. Even the hardened members of the Air Raid Precautions cheered his fortitude as he was removed on a stretcher. A number of people, including children, arc believed to be buried in the ruins of adjoining houses. Fifty-Six Areas Raided. Blocks of flats, tenements, communal shelters and a convent' were among the places bombed last niglit and early this morning in 36 London districts and 20 provincial areas. The raiders came in relays early this morning. One machinegunned streets in a London district. A trolley bus was wrecked while the passengers and the driver were taking shelter. Two bombs wrecked four blocks of flats in one London area and one; hit a shelter. Two people were killed and a number injured. Three bombs demolished a number of working class houses and small shops and hit an Anderson shelter. It is feared there were some casualties.
Residents of an outlying district reported that 16 bombs were dropped in less than a minute. There was slight damage to houses.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 3, 15 October 1940, Page 5
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