Arizona republican., 1917-12-10
WIND AND RAIN STORMS HINDER WORK OF RESCUE
 AND RELIEF IN HALIFAX
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 HALIFAX, x. S, Dec. 9.-No of ficial attempt was made here today to check up or revise the long list of dead and injured resulting from last Thursdays disaster when intuition ships cargo exploded in the harbor.
 The morgue officials held to their estimate of 4,00O dead, but other observers. said that estimate was too great by half.
 The admiralty court to determine responsibility will open hearings to- morrow. Today the survivors or the Norwegian steamer Imo, which rammed the Mont Blanc. laden with munitions, were arrested and Cap tain Lamedoc and Pilot Mackay of the intuition ship also were ordered detained as witnesses.
 A joint appeal by the mayors of Halifax and Dartmouth was made to the Canadian public today for money for the relief of the homeless and the reconstruction of that part of the city which is in ruins. It was said that between s20,O00.000 and s25,O00,OOO would be required.
 Mayor P. F. Martin of Halifax also issued proclamation calling upon all non-residents not engagedA in relief work or here on business of extreme emergency to leave the 1 city. In a second message ne urged outsiders not engaged with relief missions to stay away from Halifax during the next two weeks.
 The relief committee asked that no more workers come until called upon and the reconstruction com l supplies be sent until their charae- ter had been made known to and approved by the committee.
 heavy rainstorm today inter- rupted the systematic search for bodies. but by night 90 additional bodies had been placed in the morgue. Several deaths occurred among the injured.
 The task confronting the relief | committee seemed almost hopeless, but later in the day the skies cleared and cheering word came from the physicians in charge of the tents in which six hundred of the homeless had found shelter. The tents withstood the storm and the occupants were as comfortable as could be ex- pected.
 Crowds visited the relief stations
 
 of heartbroken searchers dug among the ruins of their homes. The nerves of the popuiace are or edge. A wild report today of burning , munitions ship heading into the har- DOT and flying red flag filled the streets with frightened persons who shouted to others to seek the open A
 coaler actually was on fire, but the flames were soon under control.
  . . have followed in succession like plaques and to these have been added the threatened invasion of former
 residents, friends of the injured and missing and the merely curious. They have arrived in hundreds, and are com l ing in thousands, if reports are true. Shelter insufficient for the homeless U and food needed for the destitute can ] not be spared for visitors. Ever physicians and nurses are rather il ample number for the present. Others :. who have freely offered their services e have been notified to await a possible later call. For the present medica ' supplies and clothing are not required so generous have been the early re- i. sponses.
 ,, There is still need of building ma. V terials, including glass and putty. .f A torrential rain flooded Halifax a II daylight today. Accompanied by 1; fl fl fifty mile gale, it added greatly t U the sufferings of thousands of per A' sons who had found none too sur = shelter after the destruction of thei na na homes Thursday by the explosion ol N the ammunition laden steamer Mon Ia Blanc.
 o Systematic search for the dead in ,s two and a half square mile area wa -T held up. The rain turned three fee Y, of snow into slush knee deep at points ,,, r but notwithstanding these. condition
 many men and women continued thei n hunt for members of their families los - in the disaster.
 ~, " No additional estimates were forth 70 coming as to the number of dea6
 Wagons carried to the morgues a SCOT e of bodies found in unexpected place it it and it was said many of the injure -' had died during the night. Churc
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