The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-07

Yesterdays disaster. About the sa.
number are injured. two.thirds Of whom
are suffering from cuts from flying
glass.
Washington. Dec. 7-Reports to the
navy indicate there was no American
ship in the harbor of Halifax at the
time of the explosion and officials are
inclined to think that If American sail
ors had been caught in the blast II
would have been reported in the early
dispatches from "A naval commander
who went in to help after hearing the
detonation fifty-two miles at sea.
Halifax. y. s., Dec. 7.-Stunned by
the magnitude of the disaster which
has overwhelmed the garrison city
by the sea-" the people of Halifax to-
day bent all their energies to relieve
the injured, feeding the hungry, shell
tering the homeless and gathering their
dead.
Snow Aids Firemen.
\ heavy snowstorm set in early today
and while this in "A measure impeded
the work of relief and rescue, IL served
to aid the firemen in fighting the
flames which still burned fiercely in
many places among the ruins in the
devastated district.
Reports from the improvised morgues
and from hospitals, churches. schools.
and dwellings seemed to bear out last
nights estimate that at least two thou
sand lives were lost when the Belgian
relief ship limo collided with the French
munitions steamer Mont Blanc. causing
the detonation of four thousand tons
of trinitrotuluol, one of the most power
full explosives manufactured
Help Begins 20 Arrive.
Help from outside began to reach
the stricken city today.
Doctors, nurses and medical and food
supplies arrived on special trains from
Truro and Windsor, n. s., and None.
ton, n. B. Other trains were reported
on the way and were expected to reach
here during the day. The special train
sent from Boston by direction of Gov.
ernor Mccall of Massachusetts will ar
rive this evening.
Virtually all business is suspended,
and the schools are closed while the
inhabitants are busy in relief work.
Soldiers and sailors including sea
men from an American warship which
rushed to the port when ii received
word of the disaster, are patrolling the
stricken district and aiding in rescue
work.
Halifax, n. s., Dec. 7.-Smouldering
ruins and piles OF debris of demolished
houses continued today to give up their
dead, victims of yesterdays explosion
aboard the French line munitions laden
steamship Monte Blanc. following a col.
lision in the narrows of Halifax harbor
with the Belgian relief steamer limo,
in such numbers as to supass any
III or an mt in mt
years.
Estimates of the number or dead at
1000 or more appeared to be borne out
by the rapidity filling morgues and in
creasing numbers of deaths reported
from hospitals, private homes churches
and schools, where hundreds of injured
are being cared for by townsmen and
members of relief parties, from nearby
cities. The exact number of dead IL ap-
peared certain today might never be
known on account of the many persons
entire families in some instances
of whom no trace will ever be found
other than charred bones in the ruins
of their homes.
City Of Frightfulness.
Dawn found the city still staggering
under the frightfulness of the losses in
human life, and hundreds who had
stood all night in lines formed at i'm
provised morgues continued their vigil
with alternate expressions of fear ana
hope on their faces. Others besieged
the hospitals for news of the missing,
and meanwhile relief parties continued
their work of succor among the injured
whom they found in the devasted Rich
mond and Dartmouth sections OF the
city.
Aid from the outside in the form of
tons of supplies gave early evidence
today that fears of a food shortage were
unfounded and left city and govern
ment officials free to direct the rescue
work i'm which soldiers, sailors and po-
lice are being assisted by bluejackets
from an American warship in the
harbor
Horror Everywhere.
over the flame-swept area of Rich
mond, of approximately two and nan
square miles many searchers confined
their efforts today to making sure that
all Of the injured were removed to hos
pitals. Other organized parties sought
ont these bodies that might be identi-
fled and rushed them to the morgues.
In this section. extending from Pier
back to Gottingen street, not build
ing was left standing and here was
the greatest loss of life.
Buildings that withstood the force OF
the explosion were burned by the iire
that swept the district and scores OF the
injured were taken from the RUNS OF
the railway station, the rernery Oh the
American Sugar Refining company, tne
military gymnasium and the arena rink
while few, II any. of the several hun