Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-11

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ing materials are wanted in great
quantities.
Trains arriving from Montreal and
other points today brought hundreds
of visitors. despite the urgent request
of Mayor Martin that the people not
needed here stay away.
Supplies from New York, brought
in last night on a special train, were
distributed promptly in the hospital
dictricts.
There was a slight furry of snow
early today but at 9 o'clock the skies
frightened and clearing weather was
indicated. Snow, which covered every
foot of the streets, was a frozen mass
at daylight. General weather condi-
tons, however, We're favorable and
soldiers We're sent early to the burned
area to begin the search for hum
dreds of bodies in the ruins.
Enough Food for Immed ate Need
There is enough food on hand to
meet Immediate needs, provided the
supply is not exhausted by the people
rushing in from every quarter, the To-
cal branch of the Nova Scotia Whole
sale Grocers Guild reported in "a COM
municatiOn to the lieutenant-go governor
today. The entire stock, the guild stat
ed. is at the disposal of the city at ac-
tual cost. The gull is cooperating
with the relief committee, and is de-
livering piles free of charge.
SO great has been the rush of re-
lief workers into Halifax since the
first Trains ploWed their way through
b.l.
those arriving today found some di1ii-
Guilty in getting TO just the spot where
the most effective work could be done.
Members of the Rhode Island party,
anxious to Get down to work, were at
local relief headquarters before half
the town was awake and men there,
many of whom had worked most of
tie night, did their best in assisting the
ewComers to get located.
The local relief committee was
aWe pt completely off it's feet by the
multitude of willing workers who dc
scended upon the city even before the
Xtent of the disaster became known
and today those most closely identified
with the work realized that some plan
must be worked out to prevent lost
motion and delay in placing newcorl-
ers at points where their ministra-
tons are most needed.
1t was rot question of holding back
the work by red tape but it was ad-
mitted that the general committee in
trying to look after the injured and
those who had come to help them fac :
cd a problem greater than expected
two days ago.
Arrest German Residents
BY direction Of the military authori-
of German residents. There was no
explanation as to the reason for the
order. The officials said it was not due
to the discovery of new evidence bear
ing on the explosion on the munition
ship in the harbor Thursday
After investigation six of the prison
ers were released and the others We're
! locked up at the county Jail.
Full liberty had been allowed Ger
mans heretofore, the only stipulation
being that they report once a mort3
to the militia authorities.
Burial of Dead Begins
Burial of the dead was begun today
Men wanted Immediately at Fair
view cemetery" an advertisement III
The morning papers called attention to
still another problem-findins men TO
dig graves for hundreds Of victims OF
the fire and explosion.
Health authorities working in co-opera
ton with the general relief committe
made it main that burial must not be de-
layed. for with a thousand or more bodies
in morgues and elsewhere the danger of
to OH INF IIpIpr tn,
plan already in effect there was no delay,
for laborers were assigned to the ceme-
teries ard men who did not expect to do
that sort of work went cheerfully enough.
Some OF the funeral notices sent to the
newspapers were unlike any ever seen in
this province before. Most of them were
not published because with crippled
plants the first aim of the papers was to
get word Of the living and lind space for
hundreds OF official notices relating TO the
more pressing problem of relieving imme-
date want.
A soldier whose wife and four children
lost their lives in one building. invited
friends " the family to att,.-. the join.
funeral services at > o'clock this after
noon T.is was but a sample of the
many hOtEtS.
Little groups of sorrowful people went
silently to cemeteries adjacent to the
Richmond district. utterly wiped out by
flames and laid away their dead. with
out friends in attendance and with the
commitment rites omitted. There were
not enough ministers to officiate for all
There were not enough pail bearers, not
CROUCH hearses and pungs laden with
Collins went slowly over the snow covered
streets and within sight of the section
where hundreds "f other bodies were mo-
yet recovered.
Say Mont Blanc to Blame
Members of the Belgian relief steamer
Imo assert that the French munitions
steamer Mont Blanc was to blame for the
collision which caused the terrible explo-
sion last Thursday. Employees of Pick
ford x Black, agents of the Imo. who
have been providing the crew with clothes
and other comforts. made public today
the stories told them by the seamen.
According to the account of the men o.
the lmO. they were aptivel .pouaro ~