ZEPPELIN RAID.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1916, Page 7

ZEPPELIN RAID.

A TIME OF TERROR. LADY'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. A resident of St. Albans has received the following from a lady relative living in an English town, describing her experiences in a Zeppelin raid: — "I thank God with all my neart that lam alive and all my household. On Wednesday tho Zeppelins dropped six bombs around my house. My windows were blown in, my front door also; bolts and screw nails blown out of the draw-ing-room door, plates off the hall, everything in the kitchen dresser blown out, and the ceiling at the top of the hoU3c and slates blown off. Oh, it was terrible! I thought I should have died with fear. Poor Nellie (the writer's daughter) was terribly ill. We all stood waiting to die, but the great Heavenly Father kept us safe. Houses were falling all around us. A lady was blown through her hall to the foot of the garden, dead. Her little boy had his head blown off and her husband his face and arm. In another house the bed slipped through the floor, and two little boys were killed. The father was taken away injured. Another son is since dead, and the servant had all the flesh stripped off her body. An old lady fell dead. There were many more cases, but everything was too terrible to think of. Six officers and soldiers came in a motor-car with stretchers to my house to ask if any were killed or wounded. How thankful I was to say to the officers that we were all safe. As the bombs fell we all stood in the cellar and prayed. The awful noise and terror, thinking the next moment "Would be our last. I have not had my clothes olf since. I'm too terrified to go to bed. 1 get absolutely broken with nerves, and poor Nellie is pitiful to look at. She cannot eat. She keeps on crying wich fear, and if a spoon falls she screams and jumps right off the ground. I feel it has taken years off my life. There must have been from forty to fifty deaths in the town, besides the injured, and alt in the little comer where I live. The shrapnel poured over my house. The whole street is gone; no doors, no staircases, no windows, and the walls all fallen in."