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MG 1 vol 2124 number 141a

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N.S.
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Mrs. D's house was soon filled with wounded people - but there was no place to lay anyone down. Not even room on the floor for anyone. Mrs Mosher and Robert Wright were perhaps hurt more than any others. Mrs. Mosher is not by any means recovered yet Wright was badly cut about the body and also had been drenched by the Tidal Wave. Mrs. D. was afraid that he was going to die. They sent him to a hospital in an automobile which Mr. Scriven got - before the second alarm came. When they were ordered out "some-one" carried Mrs. Mosher and the others walked south. In the field of the School for the Deaf - people were lying on mattresses and on the ground. Wounded and dead together. There were two or three hundred people. Mrs. Dustan's son (11 years) was on his way to school - walking with two or three other boys along Brunswick St. just in front of Tabernacle Baptist Church. They were thrown on their faces. When they got up the Dustan boy cried "Beat it for the field, boys!" They clambered over, under the fence of the School for the Deaf property, and had no sooner got over than the roof of the Tabernacle Church was lifted off and fell on the street just where they had been.

Mr. Dustan had come to see if they were all right before the second alarm and had then gone to Richmond.

The Dustans home was too badly broken to live in, so the family went to Mr. W.A. Henry's on South St. and stayed there until ten days ago, when they came back to their own house which had been partly patched up so that they could live in it. The roof of the house was broken in one place. Walls were in two places broken quite through and in almost every room the