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MG 1 vol 2124 number 115

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N. S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Miss Edith Bauld, 277 Barrington St.

On the morning of the 6th, about 9:30 started for the North End in her car to see “what had happened.” Went out of curiosity, not at all realizing how “colossal” the thing was, nor how much need there was of help. When she got there and saw how things were she began carrying wounded to the hospitals. Picked up a soldier, a returned man, who stayed with her all day, carrying injured people to and from the car. She drove back and forth from 10 o’clock in the morning until midnight. At six o’clock she “had something to eat”. Wasn’t hungry but “thought she had better eat.” Had no idea of the number of people she carried to hospital. “It seemed like thousands—but couldn’t have been much more than a hundred.” Took many to “OLD COLONY” the U.S. hospital ship. On the 7th and following days she used the car to take people who were not badly hurt from the hospitals back to their homes, or to shelters. Everybody seemed stunned. “Not a murmur” from the injured. Some one asked her to take [a group of] old ladies’ [an odd ones] who were uninjured, and standing on the street. She loaded them into the car and they asked to be taken to the hospital. She took them there, but as they were unhurt they had to be taken away the next day.
Worked all through the time when people were rushing south in fear of another explosion. “There was nothing in that!” “People were running like mad.” Nobody stopped her, or tried to turn her back. Went along Gottingen St. and over Hungry Hill on her many trips.

an odd ones [written above line near the bottom of first paragraph]

Sat. 12 a.m. Next day drove them home next day, back to W. Barracks [written at bottom of page]

MG 1 vol 2124 number 115 [written at top of page]