Arizona republican., 1917-12-09

ClLNs IlE cases DL twenty were tIlLltdf.
 A multitude of dead lay tonight in the ruins of homes buried under two feet of snow. When the physically exhausted searchers suspended for a brief period their sickening task, 1000 bodies had been recovered. And the end is not yet in sight.
 Only once before was the work inter- rupted. That was last night when a blizzard swept in from the North with a force that could not be resisted.
 Today the sun heartened the soldiers and sailors and sent them in droves to the devastated zones. Each hour their effort brought it's added burden to the morgues. At the morgues sol diers arranged the bodies for the view of intending streams of bereaved. Many funerals were held, even during the heavy storm.
 Soldier searchers in the Richmond district found beside some of the bod les fragments of the Mont Blanc These missiles evidently caused instant death
 A military hospital on one of the piers was demolished by a 20 foot chain from the Mont Blanc and which had been hurled through the air @ distance of a mile and a half Steam | ships alongside the WharVes showed gashed sides and bent tunnels, while the paint seemed to have been rub I bed off their sides. An outstanding ! exception was the cruiser Niobe, ap- | parently undamaged, but surrounded by mangled masts. steel ropes and plates welded into a fantastic mass of | scrap iron.
 | At the Richmond school where hun | dreds of children are believed to have been Killed, either by Concussion or smothered beneath the falling roof and ! walls, little boy was blown through the ruins and was virtually unhurt. 1 Heroic work was done by Arthur BeamIs, a chauffeur who with a broken rib Grove his car all day, carrying ! wounded to hospitals until he col lhpsed and was taken to a relief sta ton
 Another man who declined to give his name at the hospital because he had done only his feeble best" toiled amidst the ruins resCuing the injured With half his face blown off A sol dier who had gone through three years m the trenches in France was killed by the concussion.
 Many of the soldiers detailed to han ule bodies tainted but were revived ana Kept at their grewsome task.
 Lieutenant Commander James c
 Api4 4lVIly CdDldlu OL LLle EfnD- ress of Britain, but recently appointed commander of the convoys with head. quarters here, was killed at Pier Mum.
 Der s. The body of William Hayes
 who was pilot of the Imo, was founC ' on the shore today.
 The tug Ragus was lost with al
 hands, including Captain Blakely 4
 small tug with a crew of four men wa, tossed clear over Pier No 8 and al on board were killed.
 A soldier who returned from tn front Thursday to find his wife an,
 children dead, was working tonight il
 clothing depot, having had no sleeI
 since the explosion.
 Il must do something or go mad
 he said.
 Michael Eichel. 16 years of age O
 Mahone Bay. walked ten miles througl yesterdays blizzard to offer his assist ance. He collapsed after working al day without food and was sent to ; hospital
 All the boys of the naval college es
 capped with slight cuts and bruises They will be sent to their homes il ontario and other parts of Canada Their escape is regarded as remarkable as the naval college is only 800 yard from the scene of the explosion. HALIFAX, N. S, Dec. S.-With tn arrival of the special relief party fror Massachusetts, the work of handlin the aftermath of the explosion was be I gun today.
 TO restore conditions to normal an \ to meet the immediate needs of 250O persons made homeless were foremos in the minds of thcse who took part i a joint meeting of American and Ca nadtan forces at the city club Joh F. Moors, director of the American re lief work, announced that Halifax citi zens should take charge and tha American surgeons. nurses and arm S officers would stand behind them { the limit of their resources and abalit, Sir Robert Borden, premier of Can ada, said that the people of HalifS might rely on the dominion governmer and the provincial government fc \ every help.
 patriotic note was sounded by th Very Rev. Dean Lloyd, who said: Every heart beats with joy with tr \ knowledge that the stars and stripe and the Union Jack are again entwine to meet a great emergency"
 The special from Boston due la!
 night was delayed by a blizzard.
 arrived this morning and in a remark ably short time the forces were orgar - ized and American surgeons and doc