The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1917, Page 2

> THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1917. ahaa DEAD PILED IN HEAPS IN TEMPORARY MORGUES IN HALIFAX SCENE OF MUNITIONS EXPLOSION ON WATERFRONT IN HALIFAX---SHIPPING IN THE HARBOR eee yet eee aero eee ’ eeeeene | nderwood & Underwood: eee bee edaeee ee WePETEEEPeecrir Lene ree eee oe bbb D444 4 DOG4-4 0 91-44-44440d OD O46 140404 O EOE E EEE | | we tn iy a nr ays voc a hao NOT HALE HORROR MADE PUBLIC, GERMANS FORMING %S4roNeusTON ome “Free Agagemy of Music waa one of the first big buildings to post the notice “Mer Hore.” ‘The headquarters of the Terminals Construction Company | ‘ you" have:| clroumtérence,” ho sald, “wero burn | the Night—Great Staff of Doctors befrott, Dec, 7, — Photographie find those they | red by bi gla n shore far as it in known | ch av me en a oO eaeain, ee Sete p=! SAYS DIRECTOR OF RELIEF TRAIN FNGEARMY'N eeu. he hg wets injured, There were many other miraculous escape of a like i nee sat ut fi me lericton i on Nh ve ' - - | INew York Brokers Testify Regard- coer available building In to-day a shelter-house or hospital. The] eit peed. ‘he | ot even en the balled of Fran Many of the Injured at Halifax Died During || § SAY POLICE. Cee aiciaik eine board, er 1 t could be seen for miles in « iy | to Kaltschmid in } and the big sheds on their plers have been hastily equipped for hospital ea me ‘ iy AL novenieed| aie ecg rig pao oan and Nurses Needed. bees ar f te and checks which bore parpor Jand for the me ¢ God be quick!" | strewn the sldewalke—men,| ABOARD MASSACHUSETTS RE- |rellof to that despatched by xpe | ee Ril . the t prominent Cerman Of eee tere people whose homes wore intact are sheltering those] We iris Immediately rushed to} women and PeTestha TIVRE WIN ILINW (RAEN (HRs Si. done, Ne Bo/| rate em nontas Sna New Late epee tet ntroaucad’ 1h FO eee ammuie. Hundreds of bodies Ie In temporary worgues] grt anything that wo could lay our |the deal, Many with fractured skulle peo, 7 SRieE CHRALiGAG le ATER ITS ee tec eee t Court, towtay, by awalting recoguition and burial, Whole families are wiped out, parents] hands on, Sweaters, coatw and other | or broken limbs were dying unattends | 14. \¢ cs : : pean : _cover a perold acy trie |Hatifax are more appalling than waa] John 1 be In charge 0! ot thant t of Detroit, and ANC are left childicss, and children have been made orphans clothing were torn In strips for ban-|ed In the streets, | a [the Rea . k in Mulifax AN day and night the agonizing search for the missing went on. Res-) lage erything was piled into the| “set out to ald tho injured and|!dicated by last night hd JAil supplies w directed to Nim iand| Word warand were forwa cuers tell harrowing tales of thelr experiences, Houses in most Instances |! olive, which then tore away) m nent ‘ stonped before a | This if a message that was de-| the work of surgeons, nurses and social |* Me aN al KOUrce—a pr al b a ‘ " ee simply wettied down, story on atory, crushing everything within, It was AL top apeed for the acone of | Wooden frame houwe. thet was, In japatch. to Gov. McCall this morn- | Rite T csen hues: De etn lattan stachmidt’s hecessary to remove the wreckage layer by layer to rescue (he inmates, SUS GLRARET | lerving out that his wife was in the [ing by A. C. Ratshesky, manager Bene taea ot asvantal ra Sieeen (Hr on the ers worked with almost superhuman strength and energy At the convent was: killed} bu home somewhere, With two] the Massachusetts special rel 0 ihe and more wil be sent forward | pro-Cerman sentime rnstorft, R.A German Embasey naged to enter the house}, ured to be the| The body ef an old woman. | One party of soldi an hour and a half to release urged them to still greater effort. Just as they Ifted the last of) gon if Mr, Moors considers them necesaar 4 in newspa the sisters were terribly | others L vid found what ap} bur oung Kir pinned under debris whos: ywher profess fc Jout by fying glass, which In our sed of the elty did most of the dam If, Jones, Directo! ef of the Red wks to Kaltsch ts mado to him during the n the wreckage from her she expir Dee. y window of the aca pepe argue apts woe Ope and peek | There is Immediate need of a great] tinued stigations to-day of con-| {oF Wane al Capt. assongers on acferryboat near the Dartmouth shore felt the cou-| was br and some of the p | " ane he bls though be staff of surgeons and scores of nurses. | 4 6 all his organiza | ¢ ted tens enka este evidence, cussion from the water even before it was felt in the alr. Glass crashed | iy the por fell." ers SE ce Tbe Bile hen Bs By h eslok Ie hal asia ot atieae auation, | whe We Vin the mili- epgundt a beg — sugers were cut and bruised, | ‘There is nothing: to Justify the] phere were hundreds, many hun-|chusetts unit should be in Halifax at and foodatuf's ati ‘ret and Count Bernstorft in and pa Five littis children were borne tende the Immediate disposal of the short time lator five little corpses were borne tenderly out sirgeca who, indices A Taw ike have been tnelud: A woman wandered among tie dead. She peered at face after face work—the most. stupendous task (hat ’ f Whien she found the one she sought she lay down beside the body, All she S F L SION AND PANIC has confronted the people of Novi Fr 6, | mol Special Trais of Doétors and Nurses helt: “ yunt In his bank. J. #6. nudtaor for Knauth, Nachod New York bankers, testified Kaltechmidt transferred thd $25,- < and that tater he drew amount ¢ ly into one of the hospitals, Ajrumors that (he collision In (he har- dveds of similar incidents." eo ————$—_-¢o— Nat beside her loved one Scotia . wanted was to stay there and d t ‘A Government employes named Macdonald, who mado all speed to DESCRIBED BY A SURVIVOR og ten the Bay St npn found that his wife and four children John additional hospital supplies oh bis home ager the explosion, GA ETEANA Bt reach his home ath were taken aboard to meet pressing . vex Hoxton, i Af nit al Build day to the Fede ing was guarded by soldiers t TWO AMERICAN AIRMEX special react al trate sisting of erishe 5 two-ye hter bad been killed while playing tn eg y 7 We Das 7 9:7 CATRID RRR IES INE SS bal lg” —+ | demands pending the arrival at Halls q quantity of medical and other supplies STAGE NE BV : n ; fax of u shipment due to leave Boston | start for Halifax ¢ fternoon in ie tend are Gaward Condon, Chiet of the Fire Department; First Thought After Tremendous Concussion | at noon to-day OP Gharge of B flumtington Wolestt. | WOUNDED IN FRANCE Wwittiam Brunt, Deputy Fire Chief; Capt, Peter Broderick of the Mire De- sae | outiy Gia bostaton Meath | canal ae partinent; the wife and son of the Rev. W, J. Sweatman of the Kaye Street Was That a German Bomb Had |got into communication with the Hil-| American ‘Troops May Be Sent (oN the Mar : : jae Mothodist Chureh, and Dr. Murdock Chisholm Been Exploded. | 1ax authorities over the raltroad tele alifax Prem Camp Aye. ie Re Sroctycteurtn | War Department Announcement ; Scores of those who lost their lives were children In the public schools aph wire and learned that suppiies| AYER, Mass, Dec, 1.—Preparations| Street, Rel EN Ae Bale cide tn the north end Many others suffered broken limbs and were rescued with HALIFAX, Dec, 7.—William Barton, travelling auditor for the Canadian and help of every kind would be were made at Camp Devens to-day to a euent his time moving’ tron) uts Corporal and Private on end a completely equipped field hos- 88 to al und he never Casualty List. most w lcome, It had not been ham anly possll the authorities sald. © take care of the hundreds of tn t the office of the cagus. Insi quarters in the Public chers who escaped injury Imperial Munitions Board, at Ottawa, related to-day his experiences during diMiculty from the ruined buildings, The te Worked heroically to save the lives of the children under their charge. — and following ¢ pital unit, including army surgeons and Red Cross nurses from the base hospital to Halifax If its servic: —Two Amer- Wednesday WASHINGTON, Dee, jsjican airmen were wo! » munition ship explosion In the harbor yesterday, He ; . < palin aera ag of the Canadian Express Company, W8% yay at breakfast in the Hulifax Motel |jurea, many of whom had perished | wer quired. Plane were perfects where he did his dictating. ial Frav the War Department an- od when the roof collapsed. . ; Vausing & ie ene ‘ vbidag bai nother {important arrest is expected |) ay In less than half an hour after the disaster 6,000 persons had gathered ten seconde it was all over," Mr. Barton said, “A low rumbilng, a) uring the night , fur a special train and officals nated | toxday D PRRT Os Tee eens. Tailan o» the common and thousands of others had sought refuge In flelds outside quake shock, with everything vibrating, then an Indescribable noise, fol- plea ps ana eather Lea tee SHER EE SOS tare 8S Sie MAYOR W nea eva wound “add ei Dubiin ie the city. lowed by tho fall of plastor and the smashing of glass, GE teas bodlen Will Revan bs claimed | ———~—-—_ | IRES SYMPATHY. Private Eaward F. en » 7 7 7 , SON ‘ — ounded Buffalo. IMPOSSIBLE TO GET LIST OF MISSING. ‘In such momenta the human minds Because of inability to get into PASSENGERS AND CREW | Dowling Offers Any Service New| wou Butte Tt hes been ible to get all the names of the miselng. iam does not hesitate; a cry went UP|to alight and resume their Journeys Som uaeAttan with Halifax yester-| York Clty Can Gty DIED. have been scattered, and because of the lack of communication there ts ‘a German bomb! A rush for ty afoot, There was grim work ahead” |4ay the relief train was despriched OF NIEUW AMSTERDAM SAFE! Acsine: HAY vowling to-day ho Immediate means of bringing them together, It probably will be days headl 4 t w ieee {WithOUs welling to: Know. wether tte) ne owing telegram to. the Lord | KOMP---ALDEM® Ott ree emote s 7 ays door, headlong Sewn die ‘Y WOMEN AND BABIES DEAD \ 44 814 comfort would be useful and ar ts yor 4 Services st CAMPBULL, FUNERAL before the full extent of the casualties is known, amid falling pictures, glass and plas OO ee Wescane ther pacly wan avaticind colnuich We t Halifax ine | net? ith all reaklents of our] CHURCH, Brosdway, @@tm ot, Friday, I. D. Smith, Secretary of the Dominion Textile Company, repor aes “| IN STREETS OF HALIFAX, | he party was gratified to/ Dutch Vessel at Hallfax Carrying hile Se etas y, ter, to the swinging doors of a few ag libisdanh dha tush learn that the decision to start Inst a hoa ma hale ‘ , . wreckage of the company's mill, but no serious casualties ant aeconds before, now ripped from tnelt SAYS ONE EYEWITN night proved wise 350 Sends Word to Lo ey | DRIOWN a oarctene for My aris ala cri Four hours to-day the relict troin Oftices of a Dba) runtington on Sunday ut 2 P.O ht ‘ of the olty is wholly wrecked ontae pieces of glass to tne streat:| GT. JOHN, N. (By) Dec. T—Bye-|| sen tirouah) & snanhy buried a ‘vot! Word that the passengers and crew nmand te. Vrain leaves Station, 33d at, @ re known t t t Re ¢ r re 1 ‘on | deep ow, tha MINGA ¢ bisdsihaiaegali WLURG, 10 A. M us av., Brooklyn, « ‘ are known to be dead at Dartmouth, opposite Halifax, | Here I found myself with a bi «of Halifax explos on | a Meas Ww, that was whirled over! 4° the Holland-America Line steamer ting Mavor, | 10.08 4. several are missing and presumed dead. a woman, How she had o into reaching here to-day told 4 s of | the fields by a cutting north wind t horr th <t h Railroad men enid it w. Nieuw Amsterdam are safe in Hallfax / A comm of bunkers and brokers was formed to-day and will mect | My arms I do not sho|tho horrors through whict . ad men sald it was cold and : ’ Rvelerioaii ne | parsed. In tho party were fourteen |raw at Halifax and that the suffering was recelved at the local offices of to-night to tnke a 1 on the cliy’s financial needs. was, hysrericany ‘ rey omit man stud trom Mount] was intense, Tho special had th ut 4. | ‘Tho work of rescue and relief was | poor sister, my poor sister young women students » Moun n ho spec nad the! the line to-day. ‘Academy of Music and many other SSH eM orgunised and the |“ “outside overhead a giant sinoke | St Vincent's Academy fight of way and made @ record run| he ahip had 880 passengers in ber ; cademy of Music 7 public buildings were thrown open | .jou4 was moving northward. Dyn-| Esmond P. Barry, St. John postal] on its mission of mercy: \two cabins and etecrage. Most of to house the homeless. Five hundred tents bave been erected on the | .., seemed over. 1 crossed the row clerk, wos ot Richmond during the} ABOARD MASSACHUSETTS RE 4 common, and these will be occupled by the troops, who have surrendered | juig my feminine burden on a door-| worst of the catastrophe. Ut was LABF TRAIN, via St, John, N. B., Dec,| tem were Dutch subjects who ba their barracks to the women and children | step and returned to the h My terrible,” he said ‘ dying in|7—"Gov. McCall has given me ord been tn this country for weeks unable Every nook and cranny in atl avatlable bulldings was made ready | aid, for I war unscathed, was pos- ur \ of them|to go the limit in rendering aid, and | to get passage home to Holland Some Special for Fri within an hour to receive the wounded, A steady stream of ambulances | sibly needed far there, 1 made | caine n shot|1 shall," sald Mr, Ratshesky, ‘Just! came from as far aa Java, New York- CROCOLATE COVERED CREOLE © and automobiles arrived at hospitals, which soon were filled to capacity | my way upstairs to the rooms of two Be tout, faces si wits as none asl ohh get art shiag re-| erg on board were M, L. Thompson, a Crean riche n inest Oe with the injured. Doctors, and unteets tolled ceaselessly in| friends. T ; v v but x oo ; i am Niny - ah Q Ps representative of the Texas Ol! Com- botelal ue fwre'daye nalts 5 fandd Saturday ork of sucee helr ranks soon were swelled by ot | normal, even the & was unbroken e appears now that tremendous as: : : j 0 the by rk : cor rh Z ran . re swel by others, who ar: Ca rsa vanes. of glad renuain un or == we were} ance will bo needed pany, and Gerald Van Casteel, a pub- Fi “is she rive x co! in ¥ increastr Ab ri ne nearby towr See in thea: Oo More 1 | work Tround a wrecked building! "Arrangements were made le schoo! teacher, of No. 050 West Attractive Offerings for Friday & Saturday, Dec, 7th & 8th ie cor sLiK of wounded wil be relieved by t & some of! : y i A ft t injured to other towns. Some may be removed t aking some Of the) way in tho atrocty mecting my two \ baby fifty feet! night With James Jackson, hea Sai aicast STH CHOCGTATE CANACHEIC n other town may b moved by bow sommpanions on the thre rhey, {or ™ rneath @ burning mass|the New England Division One fact that caused fear for the LOWS—Aw the 4 special traln bringing carloads of food, clothing and other much joo, were unacathed erytng for ald, We could not get! American Red Cross, to forward alvatoty of the passengers of the liner Mee harwumalens Gncwese t necded supplies arrived here th ng from St. John, N, B. Mayor = “Our plans were au made. We ¥ thirty feet of the child and) jurge equipment needed to te-| was that no one 18 allowed tg disem- erings of hate Premines i Mayes and the majority of the » ns of St. John have arrived also. were off to the mediate ty of ad wateh while 1 ned to! ment what we have aboard, The bark during the Inspection, which ts qari Mik Chovotate, The blending of The report that the milltary hospital at Rock Head, close to the Nar-| the disaster, for among many theort don Men and nid chit= | signment of ours aff and nurses will| carried on while the vessel lies at ‘ they ere. dellstoun (site te MO Eee” ea ; rows, had been destroyed and wil the patie Killed proves untrue. | we opted ax m pla dredw i burned O rtern:| pe ceterrained .etter Arrival:at Hall. )an hor, ie ine POUND TIN, wr ey ND BOX 49c © Seratches and cuts from flying glass were the worst injuries suffered by “lowing wp of & munition ship. ‘To-| W , but the whole force will be placed wo other neutral passenger liners = ' the patients, with two exceptions, @ n the building was virtually | ward Citadel 1111 we wen! Jed our Ww HC. a tre nducior.!as a unit under the direction of the that salled fr here left Halifax } merecked nd the fur we we ) 0 A H i por on Gen only a few days ago. They were tho OTTAWA, Ont, Dee, 7. Investiva to the Hallfax disa will horrid the aftermath een i CHRerOn, & ee sit Abul : for | ® "4 cy oe Ane cakes TO CHURCHES, SUNDAY SCHOOLS & PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS cts Carr fl 1 ic | roports show not one-half of the | ® and the Bea . 4 ‘i ' + ducted by Judge 1 uralty of ne Court of No ti ene ; of Metropolitan Mixed Candy and be peri ted by Judge tt Admira Z Court of Nova a, : perator, and fam-|torrible story baa been given the| oan Hner Helllg Olav: 30 Pounds ot Male apoltian, J a Canty a ) $6 45 naval representative ad representative tile marine, it was killed 7 f OXGS f . is > rid, Will you please have the A lal ach ¢ i butl AMBRIGAN CONSUL SARB \#eisted Prose say to the ns 30 Pounds ji trusts oo» if a ld “ps 4 ‘ Halifax that ev hing tha Fl 0 id d Manhattan Mixed Candy and 60 hall it ACCORDING TO DISPATCH gone tn geen atic 30 Pounds ries de) ior. “ $8.25 i ‘ REETS tre| RECEIVED BY HIS WIFE ovinced by Massachusetts ant ts bide Dies 1h AEC ae | ; } ni — not the last relief corps that the 8 Aceh ur Hen MILK CNWOCODAIB { = os = § prepared to send, We be * ‘Chocolates, COVERED | PHILADELPHIA, 1D. Fihel : : we A real chanel with | bert anican’ { rile the scene to-night an told 0 Dace see i : Me Sinai An Consul Gen- land our AuraGD ay fob RC ae g%) fond mak i = es nd | eral, and his aides alifax are wafe, from neat adian ‘ i. " | fi ; y .\ Hones N er. JOHN, N. B. Deo. 1-A aa This information w tained sin il the home} 4 burt can Everybody at or ound, Abs c . was dee \iern a gram from Mr. Watts his daylignt ahea¢ | 4 * if Paand. , haw the tlh Seat gerne test AS Ne — | our house likes ¥ vi ; overis 35 Pre te Wan | ned Crese Proparts Send an ° AAT fe Btores, New Yorks i" Bleanor Tapley of St. John, a vtudent | into a hospital, tow as many as ® an Md Needed, Post Toa ties Fa pe obliced Brockivn, Newark. r ,treminee Mile F at Mt. Vince Academy at Halifax Nd be found piace for were brought | porse!’ A cor aan jBicte, Departinent in 4 ARTS TOT Deb samen nad , 1 PERN on 75c cotied welent | uarite ws 64¢ 1 AS Rpeen . 4) daw ; 88) Washingt 1 not en Red Cross officials here to-day VS. Pe i 3 The aD 3 wale warts . Map Tapley save that the armory and cared for by the sisters and girl the streets and paase re tecena |Oeee tone tks White 8 ee ee ed to aend to Halitex additions O39 o662, zy Au die eontainas:, aes BOX ‘ F f ' ; \\