The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-08

 volumes of smoke from doors and windows. The district was Twins bell.
 Half srangled by the smoke l kept pulling out bodies from under beams and fallen chimneys and under wreckage Some Of the bodies were without clothing Many were so nu- tilat4d Chat t sas difficult to realize that they were human some men were yirtaally demented Thinking only of their wives and children they dashed about in the burning debris hazarding their lives with the sinals thought of rescuing their own
 "I shall never forget how felt in that hour saR little children run ming along, some with blood stream ing from them All were crying for their parents. while fathers and moth CTS raced about in frenzy l have never seen anything SO pathetic even on the battlefield'
 Persons arriving here on steamships rom Halifax today added to the story of death and suffering Thomas Trainor. a pilot, said that 1.G0@ bodies had been recovered He had seen several steamers in the harbor that had been damaged and said that the number of seamen killed was large.
 C. II Frizzill reported having seen fifty charred bodies in Camp Bell road. While walking from HalifaX to Needham he counted lG9 bodies scat tered in the fields He saw a woman strolling apparently dazed along the railroad track Win one hand she lec small child On the other arm sht tore the headless body of an infant Another arrival said that in a schoo at Richmond 2oo children had me death
 k. c. Marsh reported having seer mother standing in the street call ing for help that was not to be mad for her husband and four childre! Imprisoned in their burning home | W tS ALtliONrtUlt tf tiA iO eilI}l NflN U lAl house. In another house to which h. | made his way in order to be of aid Marsh found four bodies piled one ol the other by a freak of the explosion Incidents are coming 10 light ever. -four which emphasizes the fact tha | life and death go hand in hand. Death ] too horrible to describe occurred si multaneously with miraculous escape-
 A six year old child was blowl through the roof of house in Youn street, rolled from the roof 10 tn ground and suffered only a fey scratches Another child was res ued from the ruins in Richmond ap )arently unhurt
 This rescue and others like it, havu }dded to the fear that many who wer naimed by falling buildings and un ble to help themselves, perished il the flames or have been frozen
 Some of those reported m4sin ave been found and some familie have been reunited
 Among those reported dead bu who escaped was Dr. Murdock Chis holm.
 The body of Captain James was re- covered from Pier s Lieut. com mander James Ray, was killed in thl dock yard
 When the body Of Elizabeth Ryan ten years old, was found, she stil was clutching a school book in on, hand
 The wife of Lieut. Alfred Shaw, wh. sailed overseas last week, was kille. In her home
 Soldiers from the garrison and sail ors from ships in the harbor hayo done heroic and devoted work No only have they picketed the streets but they have toiled ceaseless,1 among the ruins.
 There have been no reports O footing, although windowless store. and houses have afforded ample op. portunity for theft
 Nearly every merchant has giyer his stock to aid the injured or t' feed and clothc needy survivors.