Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-07
2OOO Are Killed When French
 MunitiOn Steamer COllides With
 Belgium Relief Ship; Many Injured


 their tenants.
 In the main part of the city, where 7 the buildings are chiefly stone or con crete. the damage was confined to the shattering of windows and most of | the casualties in this section were caused by flying glass.
 Many Houses Destroyed i In the west and northwest ends the damage was more extensive and there the walls of many houses were blown to bits. Whole blocks of dwellings, mostly of frame construction, were leveled. Street after street is in ruins, and the structures which were left standing by the explosion were destroyed by fires which broke out simultaneously in a score of places and which it was impossible to check until they had burned themselves out. It is believed scores of persons who had been injured by the collapse of their homes perished in the flames from which they were helpless to flee. The fires in this district are still smoldering tonight.
 People Panic-Stricken
 Five minutes after the explosion the streets in all parts of Halifax were filled with frenzied, panic stricken throngs striving to reach the outskirts in an effort to escape what they believed was a raid by German fleet. Hundreds of them had been cut in the shower of glass which followed the explosion.
 In the Richmond section the scenes enacted defied description. Seriously injured men and women crawled from the wreckage of their homes and lay in the streets until they were re- moved in ambulances and automobiles to hospitals. Those less seriously hurt aided those more gravely injured. In the streets, piled high with debris, were found the mangled bondies of many women and children. Several children were crushed to death when they were hurled against telephone poles by the force of the explosion.
 Watch Loved Ones Die
 In scores of cases occupants of houses who had escaped without in jury, or who were only slightly hurt, were baffed by the flames in their search for members of their families and were forced to stand by impo- tently while what once had been their homes became funeral pyres for loved ones.
 A government employee named Me Donald, who made all speed to reach his home after the explosion, found that his wife and four children had perished. His two-year-old daughter had been killed while playing in the yard of her home.
 Many Children Killed Among those killed were the chief of the fire department and his deputy, who were hurled to death when a fire engine exploded.
 Scores of those who lost their lives were children in the public schools in the north end Many others suffered broken limbs and were rescued with from the demolished build | ings. The teachers who escaped in- jury worked heroically to save the lives of the children under their charge
 Hundreds Reported Missing Lebaron Coleman. manager of the Canadian Express company, wasI killed when the roof of the North sta tion collapsed. In less than half an hour after the disaster 500 persons had assembled on the common and thousands of others had sought refuge in fields out side the city Hundreds were report ed missing by their relatives, and it was not known whether they were alive or dead.
 Steady String of Ambulances
 The work of rescue and relief was organized The Academy of Music and other public buildings were thrown open to house the homeless. Five hundred tents have been erected on the common. and these will be oc- cupied by the troops who have sur rendered their barracks to the women and children.
 Every nook and cranny in all avail | able buildings was made ready within an hour to receive the wounded A steady stream of ambulances and au- arrived at hospitals. which | soon were filled to capacity with the injured. Doctors. nurses and volun- teers toiled ceaselessly in the work of succor Their ranks were soon