The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-08
Wholesale Burials Undertaken
by Authorities to Ward Of
Danger of silence
MARTIAL LAW In FORCE:
LOOTERS TO BE KILLED
American Bluejackets Assist in
Works of Mercy - Pitiful
Scenes Enacted 40 Work of
Rescue Progresses

Halifax. Dec. THE binding bIix-
znrd that Came after an all-tlay snow.
storm this evening crippled the relief
work just AS IL had been got well nm.
der way.
a Veritabie army of doctors, nurses,
Red Gross workers, and .stjust plain
citizens eager To help has arrived,
but the hands of these samarftans AFRO
stayed by the terrific gale that Ii
sweeping the Inflated city.
There is no way to get to hundreds
OF victims moaning from beneath
debris. Some who made heroic nj.
fernpts to climb over wTcckare In
search for these unfortunates were
bodily lifted from their feet by the
and smashed face down uron Tho
debris
Relief trains ON the way here are
reported stalled.
HaHfax, y. S.. Dec. S-fSafurdav
n canvass mt all the u,otxrues carfy
inns morning showed that Anus y,r
1000 dead have been extrtcateI fro.,,
the ruins. Hundreds are still tu,rted
IL is now regarded as certain thar
me total death toll exceeds >fhe. = .nnn,
mara WITH approximately 5000 In
jurcd.
toronto, Dec. T.-An official state
I"eht issued at Haiifas late tonight
announced that $4,000 peon,e hnd
been rendered homeless hy the dis
aster OF Thursday and that the none
tars loss TO them and to the public.
IN caring FOR them temporarily would
De $50 1000, 600 to $3.50, zoe, 900.
Halifax. y. s.. Doc IA heavy
snowstorm IL now raging In Halifax.
paying havoc with telephone and
telegraph communications. At a late
nour tonight Halifax was cut or from
the world.
However, the storm itself Is a god
send to- the city. ns II Is assisting
hreInen TO check fires still raging.
Iomgh's official estimate places
the dead mt 2,f00 and more than g.
900 injured. of whom moro thar 500
are expected to die.
The snow. driving down from
dawn till dusk helping the tsren,ssn.
nut impeding tho relief workers, has
spread one vast white sheet over this
city of the dead
As night fell Halifax rent as,rndcr
Yesterday by the blast that followed
the collision between a Belgian food
ship and fioating Arsenal, resera bls.d
n huge battlefield I'm winter after the
carnaf~e Is over and the Samaritans
have set to work.
So terrible is the havoc wrought
by the 3,00O tons of explosives that
rafncd down ON the harbor and city.
so friehtful Is the misery and suffer-
ing caused To thousands. that IL seems
real relief Is just beginning
Over the northern section of the
city the sky is still red, I'm gruesome-
iy-bcautiful relief with the heaven
sent blanket below. But all danger
OF the flames spreading Is over.
thanks largely to the snowstorIn
Women Seek Their Dead.
In the heart OF the section where
the graetest havoc was wrought, dis
tracted women dug with frenzy amid
the wreckaRe, screaming for their
children. They made CHASTITY figures
tonight, stalking through the snow,
the light from the nearby flames fall
Ing on their haggard faces. the sight
constantly blurred by the driving
snow fakes
curing cry from tiny voices, II want
my mammal
Stories OF miraculous escapes were
told--as miraculous as the manner in
which hundreds were struck dead ia
the awful hall Of red hot missiles from