Arizona republican., 1917-12-08

HALIFAX, x. S., Dec Stricken Halifax was swept tonight by a rag ing blizzard. So fierce was the storm that rescue workers were forced to suspend their operations in the devas- tated district It is believed certain that all the injured buried under the ruins of shattered buildings have per ished of cold and hlnger.
 Battered by biting wind and blind ing snow, the plight of the survivors of yesterdays holocaust is little short of desperate. The windows and doors of virtually every house in city were shat tered by the explosion which wrecked the Richmond section and devastated 8 1 large part of the water front. Impro- vised barricades of boards give little protection against the elements, and attempts to heat buildings into which | the snow is steadily drifting are hope | less.
 l The city is again in darkness tonight except for the illumination afforded by | a scanty supply of oil lamps and unless these are carefully screened they are l eXlnguiShed as soon as lighted by the gale which whistles through the crude shutters. Only a small percentage of the buildings haze even this slight pro- 1 lection from the storm
 The stlfferings of those who escaped { injury have been increased by the fact that every available blanket, quilt and comfort has been reqlIisitioned for the
 hundreds of injured in the temporary hospitals. Many of these are so gravely wounded their only hope lies in the best of care. Serious fears are felt that cold, shock and eXpoAdre will result in
 an outbreak of pneumonia.
 single telegraph wire, bending
 dangerously in the storm, offered Hali-
 fax only precarious means of com
 munication with the outside world and 1t was feared momentarily that this
 line would snap. Telegraph and tele-
 phone companies are making desper- ate efforts to provide a make-shift ser
 vice and the work is beset with great
 difficulties.
 While many generous offers of ma terial relief have been rekeived and i trainloads of supplies are on the way
 the spectre of famine was abroad to- night, Tor If the storm continues it $ may seriously interfere with railroad 2 traffic. There is enough food on hand g for immediate needs but it will last : only short time unless additional t supplies are received
 g As the day wore on the inmensity 1 of the disaster increased rather than g diminished. Hundreds of bodies were taken to the morgues and rescue squads
 were constantly finding new victims
 buried under tons of debris until the ' blizzard forced them to cease work. ,. There is every reason to believe that n many more will be recovered. e No concerted effort has been made 3 as yet to compile list of the dead as every effort is being made to identify 3 those who perished. The condition of e man, of the bodies make this exceed ingly difficult and large proportion s Of those who lost their lives will be
 buried as "nameless dead" There is = no reason, however, to change the es- innate Of 1000 dead and 5000 injured, = The fires which has been raging for y A hours in the north end were brought
 under control early today and the city 0 IS no longer menaced by a conflagra .
 tion
 While soldiers, sailors and volunteeSs
 were searching the rams Of the north
 end today business was entirely sus-
 pended. The leading citizens devoted
 thelr efforts to organizing work of re-
 lief and substantial progress was made
 in tlts respect
 An emergency meeting of the citizens was held at the city hall today. Lieu tenant Governor Grant and Deputy Mayor Colwell presided. The large audience listened with intense interest
 and ringing applause to the sheaf ot
 telegrams from far and near which
 have poured in with messages of sym l. pathy and promises of assistance, mucf
 Of which is on the way and some al- ,i ready here. Two telegrams came from = the Duke of Devonshire, governor gen .s eral of Canada, who is in Regina. He IT said in one:
 l. Regret news; hope for exagger, n ation; tender sympathy and offer al
 aid'
 Calls to all the nearby towns whicl
 were sent yesterday for medical sup al plies, doctors and nurses were an ,- swered immediately.
 ra Mrs. Jessie Jones' director of wom tv ans work Washington, D. C., offere, " Red Cross supplies, asked for informa .h ton as to what is most needed, and as .h t sured special transportation. 1 - The American ship in port offere iu l5O blankets. The manager of the ter eo minals offered food and shelter for tW ts hundred persons
 re Captain De Carteret, of the Frencl T. Cable company, said he would provid " temporary hospital. His offer may b
 accepted for the eighty inmates of tn al deal and dumb institution which is i n-
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