Arizona republican., 1917-12-07
lad burned themselves out.

It is believed scores of persons who had been injured by the collapse of their homes perished in the flames from which they were helpless to flee. The fires in this district still are smouldering tonight.
 Five minutes after the explosion the streets in all parts of Halifax were filled with frenzied, panic-stricken throngs striving to reach the outskirts in an effort to escape what they be- lieved was a raid by a German fleet. Hundreds of them had been cut by the shower of glass which followed the explosion.
 In the Richmond section the scenes enacted deffed description. Seriously injured men and women craWled from the wreckage of their homes and lay in the streets until they were removed in ambulances and automobiles to hos pitals. Those less seriously hurt aided those more gravely injured. In the Streets piled high with debris were found the mangled bodies of many women and children. Several children were crushed to death when they were hurled against telephone poles by the force of the explosion.
 In scores of cases occupants of houses who had escaped without in- jury or who were only slightly hurt were baffled by the flames in their search for members of their families and were forced to stand by impa- tiently while what once had been theiI homes became funeral pyres fol loved ones.
 A government employe named Mac Donald, who made all speed to reacf his home after the explosion, found that his wife and four children ha( perished. His twO-yea old daughter had been killed while playing in tho yard at her home.
 Among those killed were the chic | of the fire department and his deputy who were hurled to death when a fir, engine exploded.
 Scores of those who lost their live were children in the public schools il | the north end. Many others suffered broken limbs and were rescued witt | difficulty from the demolished build ings. The teachers who escaped in | jury worked heroically to save tn 1 lives of the children under thei | charge.
 Lebaron Coleman, manager of tn
 Canadian Express company wa 1 killed when the roof of the North Sta | ton collapsed.
 In less than half an hour after tn | disaster 5000 persons had assemble | on the common and thousands 0 | others had sought refuge in field
 outside the city. Hundreds were re
 ported missing by their relatives an
 1t was not known whether they wer alive or dead.
 l. The work of rescue and relief wa promptly organized The Academy c | Music and many other public building
 were thrown open to house the home
 less Five hundred tents have bee erected on the Common and these wi
 be occupied by the troops who hay
 surrendered their barracks to tn
 women and children.
 Every nook and cranny in all avail
 able buildings was made ready withi
 an hour to receive the wounded. ]
 steady stream of ambulances an
 automobiles arrived aJ hospitals whic
 soon were filled to capacity with tn
 injured. Doctors, nurses and volun
 teers toiled ceaselessly in the work (
 succor Their ranks were soon swelle
 by others who arrived in constant
 increasing numbers from nearb towns. It was announced befor nightfall that 25 of the injured ha died.
 Those who were only slightly in , jured were sent to their own homes ( ] to those of friends after their wound had been treated. There were hun dreds of cases of serious injury how lt ever, and it is expected the death Ii.
 will be greatly increased by those wh