CRASH ON CHURCH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 19 June 1944, Page 2

CRASH ON CHURCH

ROBOT PLANE INTERMITTENT ACTION ALL DAY i (Rec, 12.35 p.m.) London. June 13. ' Pilotless planes were over southern 1 England intermittently all day to- 1 day. The Press Association to-night ] stated that there were indications 1 of success rewarding the combined efforts of anti-aircraft batteries and 1 fighters to bring down robots over the sea and country. i A morning service had not long be- 1 gun in one church when a pilotless ' plane crashed in through the roof. ' The church collapsed and only, a wall behind was left standing, reports the ' “Daily Express." A number of wor- • shippers were killed. Rescue workers stripped to the vest and trousers, worked under the last remaining arch which was cracked and unsteady to recah those entombed, some of whom have already been taken out and sent to hospital. All but the srr-.1l wing of a hospital in southern England was demolished when a pilotless plane explode.! in the early hours cf this morning says the “Daily Telegraph.” Some of the patients were killed,. One nurse was killed and three are' missing. British, American and Canadian tjdiers hurried to the scene and began assisting civil defence workers in dig-1 ging among the wreckage. A night nurse said: ‘The patients were wonderfully calm. Morphia was given to many. Four women buried alive under a wall were extricated and after two hours’ digging five more women were dug out from a far corner.” A nurse pointing to wrecka-e said: “That black twisted little monster which is the remains of the pilotless plane is now mixed up with our X-ray equipment.” Practically every window was blown out of another hospital when a robot plane crashed. The wards were littered with glass but there were no casualties. A convent was also destroyed and a nun who was injured has since died. Another pilotless plane fell at teatime among people returning from a Sunday afternoon walk, child'on being among the victims.