Show BOARDINGHOUSE BOMBARDED I Mrs Smiths Place Suffers and Occupants pants Endangered rho bortrdlnghoupo conducted by Mrs Tt G M Smith Immediately south of the Short Line building looked I after the explosion like the target of I n bombardment Hundreds of bricks were hurled across Pierpont avenue I against Its side crushing It In wrecking I wreck-ing the contents of the north rooms and imperiling the lives of the inmates < In-mates Robert Pierce the landladya i nephew had a narrow escape and sustained sus-tained very painful Injuries Mr Smith i owes his life entirely to the fact that he stooped over to look Into a cellar I I window as the missiles came hurtling I over his head One of the bricks grazed I his scalp and left an ugly well I At the first alarm of fire all the inmates in-mates of the house were astir Many I ran outside among them the two daughters of the house The girls hat been sleeping In one of the north rooma The explosion which followed i within a few minutes hurled masses of I I masonry through the window upon the bed and clear across the room Young J Pierce asleep in the adjoining room was less l fortunate He was lying in bed when the bombardment began The wall of his room crashed In and ho was covered with the debris In his alarm ho through the sprang upper sash of a window leading to the young ladle room The glass inflicted deep gashes in various parts of his body adding to the injuries already inflicted by the bricks He was In care of a physician yesterday who picked hundreds hun-dreds of particles of glass out of his I left leg The north wall of the kitchen was entirely destroyed and the firebrands from the burning warehouse set the I roof on fire The flames ate out ten j feet of the ceiling and mounting to the 1 roof burned away the cupola before the hose was turned upon it Following the bricks fire and waterS water-S came scores of curious people who carried I car-ried away the silverware and any other knickknacks they happened to fancy Many valuable articles were carried out on the lawn by boarders and so escaped injury The range linoleum and other fixtures In the kitchen and diningroom were absolutely ruined Mrs Smith estimates her loss at 500 which is fully covered by insurance The building is the property of Hempstead Hemp-stead brothers and was not Insured I suffered damage amounting to 600 Last night the thirtyfive boarders were scattered and the Smith family bunked as best they could In the disordered dis-ordered and dismantled rooms More than half the house was littered with bricks Tiro ken glass charred wood and other relics of the disaster not to men tjon the coallr s of mud deposited by the streams from the fire hose I Is not supposed at this time that Mr Smiths or Robert Plerces injuries I will prove permanent or serious |