Labram's
room. During the same day the wife and son (fifteen months old) of Mr.
Robert Solomon were struck by the fragments of a shrapnel shell, which
burst as it came through the outer wall of the building in which they
were temporarily staying. The child was killed instantly, but the poor
mother was taken to the hospital, where she died, thirty-six hours
afterward, from her injuries.
During
Saturday the firing continued, and buildings in every quarter of the
town were struck. The peril of the unprotected people was appalling.
There was the greatest activity in build-
