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MG 1 vol 2124 number 129

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
Archibald MacMechan, F.R.S.C.
Director
Halifax, N.S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Miss M. A. Christie.
Teacher at Victoria School, Dartmouth.
Home, Bedford.

Was at the school building in the north end of Dartmouth. Only two children, the janitress and Miss Christie were in the building, as school did not open until 9:30. The other teacher, Miss Moseley and the rest of the pupils had not arrived. The two children were in the class-room with Miss Christie. The double windows had been put on a few days before and when the explosion occurred it knocked the windows, frames and all, into the room. If the children had been in their places it must have killed many of them. The two children who were there were not hurt. How they escaped Miss Christie does not know as she was knocked down and buried in a heap of plaster, glass and splintered wood. Her face and head were scratched and cut so that she thought at first that she was badly hurt; but although she bled very freely the cuts were very slight, only surface scratches. The only scars left are two very small ones on the side of her neck.
The [two] first [two] two explosions that she heard were so slight that no one there paid any attention to them. Then "things began to fall in on them" and then came the big explosion. Miss C. thought that it was an air raid and when she had managed to [cra] crawl out from under the heap of debris which covered her, she tried to get the children into the basement. The children would