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MG 1 volume 2124 number 137a

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

"what was left of the barn" ad put his wife in it. She was frightfully cut and crushed. One eye has since been removed. One arm had a bone split. One leg had glass driven in behind the knee cap. One cut in her neck exposed, but did not pierce, the jugular vein. A cut in her right arm, running from elbow to wrist, exposed the bone. Altogether she had thirty bad cuts on her body, besides many minor ones. She was conscious, and did not lose consciousness at all. Mr. C. put Donald in the barrow with his mother and told Jean to walk along beside him. He took them to Rockhead Hospital almost a mile away. At Duffus St. he met Mr. MacAloney, who was on his way to look after the Hillises. Mr. M had an express wagon with a mattress in it. He told Mr. C. that he would come back and look after them as soon as possible. Then Mr. C. went on to the Hospital. About one o'clock Mr. M. came to the Hospital and took Mrs. C. and the children to Fairview. Mrs. C's injuries were cleansed there as well as was possible under the circumstances, and she was taken to the soldiers' hospital on the Common about ten o'clock that night in a motor lorry. About an hour afterward she was taken to Camp Hill Hospital and there recognized by Mrs. MacKenzie, wife of a Presbyterian minister who was nursing there, she was put on the operating table very soon and looked after. The children remained at Fairview about six weeks.
After putting wife and children in Mr. MacAloney's care Mr. C. went back to look after his sisters-in-law. He had them taken to hospital, and then worked helping others until about four o'clock when he went to Fairview to look after Mrs. C.