The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-13
ARREST GERMANS
AND SHIPS CREWS
SURVIVORS AT HALIFAX TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY.
RESCUE WORK IS IN PROGRESS
City Under Martial Law.---Tent Shell
tiers Demolished BY Second
Storm and Rescue Problem
Grows More Serious.

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Halifax, Dec. 10.--All of the Ger
man citizens in Halifax are being
| arrested today. They were ordered
taken into custody regardless of sex.
Seven men and one women have
been arrested since late hour last
night and others are being rounded
UP as rapidly as possible.
The surviving officers and the
crew of the steamship Mont Blanc
and the limo which collided and
caused the terrific blast are also
being arrested
Twelve Hundred Dead.
The reported dead this afternoon
total twelve hundred. OF this num-
Der nine hundred are unidentified
but there are two thousand that are
unaccounted for.
Government Gives 100000.
Premier Sir Roger Borden today
announced the cancellation of all of
his political engagements. He will
devote his entire time to the relief
work in Halifax. The precier an
nounced that the Dominion govern
ment had appropriated one million
dollars for immediate relief work.
Borden thanked the United States
for her aid in the relief work in a
statement which was Issued today.
Bodies are being removed to the
morgues in blocks of from fifty to
one hundred at time. Some of
them are being quickly identified.
Snow Turns To Rain.
With a warm rain which was
slightly turning the white snow man
tie of the streets into a slush, the
sailors, soldiers and the volunteer
civilians today were still removing
bodies from the city of death.
The city is now practically under
martial law. Hundreds of tents
turned the people out into the streets
By being blown over during the
night as a fifty mile gale hit the i'm
provised quarters. --,.....
The second storm appeared to have
about filled the cup Of public sorrow
TO overfiowing.
Problem Is Increased.
The first thought was for 600 per
sons in tents and in damaged build
ings which were not secure against
a driving rain. Relief efforts were
redoubled for the committee realized
that the problem was growing great
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An appeal to the people of Canada
for from $2O,OO0,0O0 to $25,000S0O
for relief of the homeless and the
reconstruction of the stricken dis
trict Of Halifax was issued today by
the mayors of Halifax and Dart
mouth. The appeal explained that
the ruin was complete in a wide area
occupied almost exclusively by the
laboring class. ... -. .
that 1000 persons have been killed,
thousands have been injured and in
nearly all cases the families in the
devastated areas have been left des-
titute and penniless. The stricken
district was occupied almost exclus-
lively by the people of the industrial
and poorer classes.
No Americans Killed.
No Americans were killed in the
explosion, according to reports re-
ceiyed by Ethelbert Watts,the Ameri-
can consul general. Theodore
Fisher, vice consul. was badly cut
about the head by flying glass, but
otherwise was unhurt.
Narrowing Scenes On Streets.
Montreal, Quebec, Dec, 10.-Tell1
ing a vivid story of how the little
children were running wild in the
streets of the devastated city crying
for their lost mothers, and some of
them trying to wake their dead moth
ers, others crying from the agony
and pain, Rev. George Adams of the
Emmanuel Congregational church ar
rived in the city from Halifax yes
terday.
He was one of the first survivors
to leave the stricken city. His es-
cape with his life he considers a
miracle.
Halifax seemed to be the most
peaceful point in the country about
two minutes before the explosion,
he said today. Then there was a
, wild terror and three or four seconds
later, the windows of my bedroom
blew out. l did not know what was
Happening but thought that there was
| ehaliinp going IN -.
Everything In the Streets.
II got up and dressed as quickly
as possible and went out into the
streets to find them flooded with
jewelry, clothing. food, and Other
supplies which had found their way
human beings any more. but onl,
beasts"
The illuminating reports OF Brand
Whitlock, Minister OF Belgium, tell o
1.-The miseries inflicted upon the Beigiai
\ people, Mr.. whitiock saying: "one 4
$50 overwhelmed with the horror Of thu
thing itself, that 1t has been, and evei
now Il, difficult to write calmly AM
Justly about it,
s. Hoover's Contribution
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