Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — ZEPPELIN KILLS 23 [ARTICLE]

ZEPPELIN KILLS 23

60 Russians Are Wounded by Bombs. Germans Alleged to Have Thrown Explosives After Hoisting White Flag. London. Sept. 15. —The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Moscow, quotes the assistant station master at Miava, on the Russo-Prussian frontier. as follows: “We were on the platform when a Zeppelin appeared 500-feet above us. Out artillery opened fire, damaging three of its four motors, but it proceeded. "The Zeppelin tben hoisted a white flag and the Russians ceased firing. The Zeppelin immediately hurled a bomb, many people being winded. “Three more bombs were thrown which killed 23 persons and wounded 60. The airship then came to the ground. The crew of eight was captured."