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MG 1 Vol 2124 number 147
Halifax Disaster Record Office
Archibald MacMechan, F. R. S. C,
Director

Personal Narrative
Arthur S. Fry, Foreman Nova Print Co.
Description Brown face, loud speaking, off-hand, intelligent, ["you" slashed out] young, clean-shaven, smoking a cigar. Communicated personally to Director, December 31, 1917 ["H. D. R." slashed out], H. D. R. O.

On being questioned about the explosion -- heard a rumble. ["Tho" slashed out] Thought Mr. Zwicker was trying to pry open his safe, in the room overhead. Shouted " Beat it!" All employees got out without injury. Hurried to his home, a flat No. 24 Gerrish Street., Found his wife "screeching", tearing planks and plaster off a bed on which the baby lay. When they got the rubbish off, the baby was not ["ther" slashed out] there. Baby was found under the bed, without a scratch. Usually "the missis" shoves the bead against the wall. That day she had left a space about a foot, (illustrating with his hands). Fry's opinion was that the force of the explosion had lifted the baby into this place of safety. So strange a story that Fry suggested he might not be believed. "Not a lie". Another child according to his own account was blown ["from" slashed out] into the back yard from the house with "something". This "something" was the back door which had been blown into the yardat the same time.