Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-07
MANY CHILDREN LOST.

MANY CHILDREN LOST.
Police are. attempting to round up
through the appalling wilderness of
wreckage, weeping bitterly or calling
for their mothers.
Even worse conditions than exist in
Halifax have turned North Dartmouth
across the bay. into a place of death
and suffering.
The most badly damaged section of
Halifax is shut off by g-4gy.s.
The dock yArd magazines have been
flooded to prevent more explosions.
TWO THOUSAND INJURED.
The citizens committee, in charge Of
the wrecked zone estimated today that
the seriously injured would total two
thousand. This is not including those
suffering from minor cuts and others
who are walking cases." A special
train is being made up to carry more
of the wounded to Windsor. where
preparations have been made to care
for several hundred.
Burial of some of the dead may be-
gin late today.
Snow aided the fire fighting and the
flames will be confined to the ruined
district of North Halifax. Numbers
of injured trapped under falling
buildings, are believed to have been
burned.
IDENTIFICATION BUREAU.
The citizens committee has estab
lished an identification bureau where
those separated from their families
may leave their name and so hope to
find their relatives.
American and British soldiers are
keeping close watch for thieves and
ghouls who will be shot.
North Halifax is a vast funeral pyre
today! Many bodies are incinerated
In the burning ruins Of this city of
desolation and snow is mantling with a
cloak of white great 'blackened areas
where the flames had swept. hiding
horrors beneath. Hospitals have been
crowded with moaning wounded. The
dead lie in ghastly heaps. great
wind is sweeping through the shat
tered windows of ruined buildings.
POLICE ESTIMATE.
The police estimate Of 1000 dead is
the latest.
An equal number of seriously in
jured are being cared for.
Exhausted relief parties are digging
| desperately in the confusion of debris,
hoping to find among those buried
some still breathing. Many Of the res
cuers have toiled ceaselessly since yes
| terday morning, when the French mu-
nitions ship Mont Blanc blew up after
colliding with a Belgian relief vessel
and it's exploding cargo Of It. N. T.
spread death broadcast.
| Amid the chaos of destruction, grief
pain and horror which is sweeping
the city, few episodes more terrible
! than the rest stand out in all their
frightfuiness.
Beneath one pile Of wreckage lay a
girl imploring God to end her agony
The rescuers worked feverishly to
| reach her. But when the last timber
was lifted. the girl was dead.
CHILDREN BORN; DIED.
| Five little children were borne into
one of the hospitals. A short time lat
er five little corpses were borne out.
| A woman wandered among thesdead
| She peered at face after face. When
she found the one she sought she lay
down beside the body. All she wanted
was to stay there and die beside heI
| loved ones.
Word was received here today that
all the hospital resources of the mill
tary establishment of Canada had
been placed at the disposal of the
shattered city. Tents. blankets. cots
and all the necessities that have been
assembled for the dominion's wounded
soldiers may be drawn upon for the
Halifax sufferers. Great quantities oi
these supplies are being rushed here
and the Canadian Red Cross is to take
charge.
The surgical workers here are over
whelmed.
FACING NIGHT OF TERROR.
Halifax faces another appalling
night of darkness and terror. Added
to this is the storm. Houses which
remain standing are crowded with
shelterless.
Many people. their faces grim masks
Of grief are wandering about ths
streets or clambering over the wreck
age hunting friends.
Telegrams. were received today from
mayors of Canada's largest cities, ex-
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