Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1945 — Page 10
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By FATHER SIEMES As Told to United Press
HIROSHIMA, (Delayed), — The sun was shining brilliantly on the morning of Aug. 6. I was smoking |an after-breakfast pipe at the Mis~ slon in Nagatsuka and lazily looking [out a window toward Hiroshima when disaster struck,
An enormous flash split the sky. Five seconds later, the whole front of the house caved in and I found myself * bleeding from splinters of glass. < It wasn’t-long before refugees began coming into Nagatsuka from the city. Every minute the procesislon got thicker and thicker.
s td ~ | THE REFUGEES were suffering {from wounds in the legs, hands, {arms and face. All the uncovered {portions of their bodies appeared to {have been burned. It was a horrible | sight. We took as many as possible into jour damaged building and did the | best we could for them, but our | stack of medicines soon ran out, In the afternoon, we learned that the bomb had fallen in the center of [Hiroshima and organized a rescue party of eight to search for four Jesuit fathers, Including Father Superior LaSalle, who were in a
Missionary Says Hurricane
Followed Atom Bomb Blast
dispatches from Lueneburg reported
Father Siemes, a Jesuit missionary, was at his mission in Nagatsuka on the northwest outskirts of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 when the first atoniic bomb, dropped on Japan, exploded a mile and a half away. Here is his eye-witness ac count, one of the most graphic yet to appear of the raid.
hour after the blast, there was a severe hurricane probably caused by extreme heat, It was of such great force that it lifted trees and even water from the rivers into the air. Hundreds of pegple who had taken refuge in Asano park were hurled into the nearby river by the hurricane and drowned, ~~ “Along the river bank in one part of the park lay hundreds of ‘persons. They had moved there when the water level dropped. Now that the water was rising, they were too exhausted to rise. We could do nothing for them.
BATTLE MARAUDERS LONDON, Sept. 20 (U, P.). — British troops fight it out nightly with Polish marauders bent upon murder and rape in Germany, press
Veterans’ department at the Indianapolis office of the U, 8S, Employment Service.
We LAY. > - Seven Indianapolis soldiers were listed by the New York and Boston ports of embarkation to have arrived yesterday, The men are to be processed at Camp Atterbury, Those who arrived in New York aboard the Aiken Victory were Cpl. Henry Mohr, 2012 E. Washington st. and Pvt, Chester W, Doan, 1654 N. New Jersey st. Abgard the Frederick Lykes which arriyed at Boston yesterday were Pfc. Richard D. MacPherson, 408 N. Delaware; Pfc. Harold P. Lechner, Pvt. Arthur K. Montgomery,
T/5 Walter C. Smith and Pvt. Jack E. Shingleton, j
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” r ” WE LEFT Nagatsuka at 4 p.m,| As we made our way south, we! found that even houses outside the ! city had collapsed. The closer we ! approached, the greater the de- | struction. Hiroshima itself still was burning | and it was difficult to get through | because of the intense heat and! heavy smoke. | We passed hundreds of bodies | along the roadside. At one of the! first bridges we crossed, we saw an | entire company of Japanese soldiers | very severely burned, the majority | of them béyond hope. Some soldiers were carrying] wounded comrades, but many fell | behind never to rise again, | » the city, noth- | ing was standing. We finally found | the four fathers for whom we were! searching at Asano park near a river { at 7 p.m. Father LaSalle was seriously wounded, bleeding from countless | cuts. Father Schiffer had suffered | a severe head cut and was in a seri- | ous condition. The other two fath- | |
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