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MG 1 vol 2124 @122a

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, F.R.S.C.
DIRECTOR
HALIFAX, N.S.

car to an open space about five or six hundred yards up the street. Went back to the house. Took all the food he could find and put it in a big bread-box, put milk in a stone jug. Took them to the back yard and buried them under stones from the stone wall. Got his account books and wrapped them in the automobile cover and buried them under stones.
A man came to him and begged him to come to his wife, who he said was bleeding to death on the Common (in North End of Dartmouth). Dr. B. went with the man, who was a grocer. Dr. B. had had nothing to eat that day, so they stopped at the grocer's shop and went in thro' the place the window had been to find some food. Dr. B. ate some biscuits and a piece of cheese. They went on to the Common and found the woman cut badly about the breast, with glass in the wound. Their house had been almost opposite the ship and she had been pinned under beams and badly bruised.
Dr. B. could not do much there, so he took her in his car to the house of friend who lived farther away from the worst damage. The woman's grown daughter was with her. They found no one in the friend's house, everyone having fled at the alarm of the second explosion. The fires were out. They placed the injured woman on a veranda which faced south and was quite warm. D. B. stitched the wound without aneasthetic -- gave a'strychnine hypo; told her daughter to get fires on in the house and to cover her mother with anything she could find, so as to keep her as warm as possible. Then he went back to his own house --- put on fires and got plenty of hot water ready. He was in the office dressing injuries for the rest of the day, as people began coming in again very soon. His wife and child