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MG 1 vol 2124 number 115b

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

to the hospital in one trip. Some were standing on the running-board. The roads were “shocking”, but she had not a stop or a puncture all day. “Sights and horrors”. Some were unconscious from loss of blood. Some children had lost eyes. There was no outcry. “Hardly a murmur from anyone”. Their wounds had been dressed with filthy rags. [illegible] Injured were black and bleeding. One man she took she thought could not live. Some had their clothes torn off and were covered with blood. She worked until about five p.m. transferring injured from the devastated area to Camp Hill. Then she was sent to the Cogswell St. Depot to take surgical supplies to Camp Hill. Made three trips to Camp Hill, taking odd things they wanted. One time back of the car was filled up with such material. After dinner she and Lieut. O.B. Jones went to the Victoria General Hospital and made two trips to the “Old Colony” hospital ship, lying at the Dockyard. Went through the North gate. The wires were down, people had to hold them up before they could proceed. Drove B.S. Hartley, director of studies at the Royal Naval College, to Pine Hill, Y.M.C.A., and other places for an hour and a half. Hartley was looking for injured cadets. Picked him up at the V.G.H. Hartley had looked at one cadet and did not know him. Introduced her to Holmes, who was all bandaged, and his eyes covered up. At. V.G.H. saw a man’s leg being dressed. His foot had been blown off. There was not a murmur from him. Did not think he had hypodermic. Wound up at Mr. Hope’s, had something to eat and went home.
Drove all next day clearing hospitals. Drove till about 7 p.m. Streets were covered with rubbish, but car sustained no injury. Went to Camp Hill first to “see if I could do anything”. “Kept me going till late in the afternoon. Then I [sent] was sent with coal and food

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