New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-08

places.
Orders we're at first given that every
body should flee 10 the south Of the
city. and IN a short time harrington
Street resembled a road Of Belgium
or Serbia when the inhabitants fed be
fore the Germans. Every variety oil
vehicle was pressed into service Tor
the sick and inhrm.
Men. women and children, some
carving hastily snstched belongings,
hurried along the psvements and over
flowed the streets. stores were de-
serted. houses forsakcn, and the en-
trance 20 Point Pleasant Park was soon
black with human beings, some massed
I'm groups. some running frantically
back and forth. The widest rumors
we're i'm circulation, and every bearer
OF tidings was Immediately surrounded.
The stories lost nothing In the telling.
When later automobiles brought the
good word that the danger was un1er
control, the crowds returned 70 find
their homes a mass OF wreckage or IN
ashes and relatives dead or wounded.
The report that the military hospl-
tal at Rock Head. close TO the Narrows,
had been destroyed and all The pa
.ieuts killed. proved untrue. Scratches
worst injuries suffered by the patients
with two exceptions, although nc
building was virtually wrecked.
Roof Torn OF Prison
Rockhead prison lost the roof from
the main building, but no one was Sc
riously injured.
Every available building is to-day q
d. o. al % ApAU-
emv Of Music was one Of the FIRST big
buildings 10 post the notice "Free shell
ter here The headquarters OF the
Terminals Construction Company and
the big sheds on their piers have been
hastily equipped for hospital purposes.
EVERYWHERE people whose homes were
intact are sheltering those whose
homes are gone. Hundreds of bodies
lie i'm temporary morgues awaiting rec
IGNITION and burial. Whole families
ere wiped out; parents are LETT child
less. and children have been made or
All day and nigh, the sgonizine
search for the missing went on. Res
cuers tell narrowing tales OF their OK
periences. Houses in most instances
simply settled down, story on story,
crushing everything within. 1t was
necessary 20 remove the wreckaee layer
by lavcr 20 rescue the inmates. One
psrtv Of soldiers worked with almost
superhuman strength and energy for an
nour and "a half 10 release young girl
pinned under debris whose means urged
them to still greater effort. Just as
they lifted the last Of the wreckage
from her she died.
Nineteen persons are known 70 he
dead At Dartmouth, opposite halifaN.
Several residents are missing and pre-
sumed dead.
William Barton, former telegraph
editor Of "The Montreal Gazette and
now travelling auditor of the Canadian
Imperial Munitions Board, at Ottawa,
related to-day his experiences during
the explosion lie was at breakfast IN
the Halifax Hotel.
an ten seconds IL was all over M
Barton said. "a low rumbihg, a quake
shock, with everything vibrating. then
an Undesirable noise, followed by the
fall OF plaster and the smashing OF
glass. In such moments the human
mind does not hesitate. A cry went
up, "A German bomb,' A rush for the
door. headlong down the hallway amid
Ial4lAk plNAultSt EiooS ai4N ~
the swing doors of few seconds be-
fore. now ripped from their hinges;
through great projecting triangular
pieces OF glass to the street. Here
found myself with a burden. How she
had come into my arms ] do not know,
yet here she was, Historically shrek
ing: 'Oh, my poor sister, my poor
sister,
"Qutside, overhead, a giant smoke
cloud was moving northwaTd. Danger
seemed over. | crossed the road, laid
my feminine burden on a doorstep and
returned TO the hotel. Ny aid, for ]
was unseathed, was possibly needed for
more there made my way upstairs
to the rooms of two friends. The
rooms were vacant, but normal, even
the glass unbroken-a few psnes of
glass remain unbroken in this area.
Once more / was in the street, meeting
my companions on the threshold. They, /.
too. were unscathed.
"Our plans were quickly made. We
we're of 70 the immediate vicinity OF
the disaster, for, among many theories,
we accepted as most plausible the
blowing up Of ii munition ship.
Stretchers on All Sides
Toward Citadel Hill we wendell our
way. and the further we went the more
horrid the aftermath. The improvised
stretcher met US on all sides, converg-
ing into the main thOroughfares iron
the highways and byways. The wound
cd were everywhere, but most OF these
could hobble or walk; we
kept onward
"Our hurry-scurry had led TO the ar
mory. Here the khaki-elad men were
already on parade. many OF the sol
diers showing wounds bound with hand
kerchiefs. conjuring 70 the nina pase
hospitals OF overseas.
LAS we passed they were already on
the march toward the more devastated
area The order had gone forth, Com
mandeer all vehicles, auto or horse a
Gordon was drawn across the streets
and passengers were forced TO allght
and resume their journeys atoot.
There was grim work ahead
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