Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-22

told detdb Of the horrors through
which they passed.
a Esmond p. Barry, st. John postal
clerk, was at Richmond during the
worst Of the catastrophe.
1T was terrible" he said, people
dying in our car like flies. Some Of
them came TO the place with noses
shot off, eyes put out, faces slasheo
with flying glass, limbs torn and dis
torted. On one occasion while we
were working around wrecked
building we could see a little BABY
fifty feet or more underneath burn
ing mass, crying for aid. We could
not get within thirty feet Of the
child and had to -'atch it burned to
death Men, women and children were
lying in the streets and hundreds
must be buried beneath wreckage.
Thomas Trainc-, pilot, said that
1900 bodies had been recovered. he
had seen seal steamers in the
harbor that had been damaged and
said that the number of seamen killed
was large.
Counted 100 Bodies.
C. II. Frizzil reported having seen
fifty charred bodies In Campbell road.
While walking from Halifax to Need.
ham he counted 1859 bodies scattered
I'm the fields. Another arrival said IN
q school at Richmond 200 children had
mt death.
The battlefields Of Europe do not
provide a parallel to the scenes Wit.
messed af1dalifax, In the opinion OF
Duncan Gsky. This is his story:
al have been IN the trenches IN
France. / have gone over the top.
Friends and comrades have been shot
in my presence. have seen scores
: of dead men lying upon the oattle'
fields, but the sight that ggeeted me
was q thousand times worse and far
more pathetic.
II saw people lying around under
debris, some battered beyond recog'i
milton and others groaning In their
last agonies.
Rushing here and there, I strug-
gled to assist them, and as near as l
can remember, pulled twenty-two men
and children from under the wreck
age. AS was right In the affected
district, I witnessed the full horror
OF the situation. Partly blinded by
the smoke from burning dwellings, l
groped around, assisting some of the
poor mothers aud little ones who were
running about screaming and search
ing yainly for lost ones. Death was
everywhere.
District 10 Living He'll.
'Flames were sweeping wide
pathway for themselves. Doomed
structures were belching forth vol
unes or smoke from doors end win
dows. The district was living he'll.
Some Of the bodies were without cloth
ing. Many were so nutilated that II
was difficult to realize that they were
human. Some men we're virtually de-
mented. Thinking only Of their wives
and children. they dashed about In |
the burning debris, hazarding their
lives with the single thought Of res.
cning their own.
ii shall never forget how felt in
that hour i saw little children run
ming along, some with blood stream
ing from them. All we're crying for
their parents, while fathers and moth |
ers raced about In frenzy. ] have
never seen anything so pathetic even
on the battlefields.
A message from Truro brings the
story OF Eleanor Tapley OF st. John,
I, studen1fat Mount Vincent Academy,
Miss. Taplky says the armory was del
stroyed and some soldiers killed. The
academy was converted into hos
xttal, to which as many as room could
~ found for were brought. The con-
vent was badly damaged and some Of
the sisters we're seriously injured By
broken glass.
eve first received word Of the dis
asfer,s said Miss Tapley, from an en-
CINE which came hurrying up from /
the city, rocking from side to side
under IT. terrific speed. The engineer,
the only man, aboard, cried out Give /
me anything you have. Blankets, food,
bandages, or anything. The whole
city Is wrecked and. for the mercy
Of God, be quick
eve girls Immediately rushed to get /
anything that we could lay our hands
on. Sweaters, coats and other cloth
ing were torn In strips for bandages.
was piled into the locomo-
tive, which then tore away again at
top speed for the scene OF the disaster
Every Window Shaken.
mo one at the convent was killed.
but some Of the sisters were terribly
cut by flying glass. which in our Sec
ton OF the city did most OF the dam
4 Every window OF the academy
was broken and some OF the pillars
In the chapel fell.
A simple statement that came over
the telephone from Truro reveals
,,.y,ra r,f tha horror ~ 4ha fraredv Ifi