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MG 1 volume 2124 number 114

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFAX, N.S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
Mrs. Annie Anderson.
Medical student at Dalhousie.
Boards with uncle Dr. M.S. Dickson, Dartmouth.

At time of explosion, had not started for College. Dr. D. was sick in bed at the time. Mrs. A. heard a “sickening crash”. Thought of an air-raid and that their house was hit. Heard people crying. The house was filled in a short time, with injured people needing attention. Dr. Dickson was buried in bed under glass and plaster, but was not injured beyond three little cuts. The house was full of bleeding and hurt people from morning till night. The second alarm was communicated Mrs. A. does not know how, very soon after the explosion. Dr. D. moved his operating table out to the corner of the street. All the doctors moved out into the street. They are all close together in Dartmouth. He was amputating an arm. A V.O.N., Miss Bishop, did first aid work, also Miss Hartling, a trained nurse offered assistance. The injuries were head gashes and cuts about the eyes. Saw one woman "clerk" with her face cut open, and the froth oozing through a cut in the wind pipe. She had been cut by heavy plate glass in a shop where she worked, but the eye was not injured. Dr. D. was called to the Nova Scotia Hospital, where he worked about half the night. Mrs. Anderson went with him. Dr. Hattie got back late in the evening. They cleared the patients out of the wards, and kept injured people there for three weeks. The buildings were injured but not very seriously. Dr. Burris was going every day. Two French doctors came from Quebec. Dr. Lawlor assumed the chief responsibility. Mrs. A. found that she could do

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