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

MG 1 volume 2124 number 161

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Harvey Jones, Editor of the "ECHO"
Communicated to Director personally H. D. R. O. December 17, 1917.
Description. Small, slight build, neat, dark, gentleman, worn and tired.

Was in the party first to board the "IMO" on the evening of December 6th. Went on Pickford and Black's tug, agents for said ship. Found body of Hayes, pilot, crouched under the lifeboat on the bridge, as if he had tried to shelter himself from the effects of the explosion. There were two dead men on the forecastle-head. Below the cabins were wrecked. It was pitch-black. As he went on never knowing when he was going to stumble on a corpse, he heard the most awful yell. Was feeling "kind of blue". Hair stood on end. Man behind him bolted, felt like doing so himself, but did not. Yell was repeated. Then recognized that it was a dog, shut up in one of the cabins. Nothing would induce him to leave. He growled at anyone who approached him, and ultimately had to be shot. Jones thought the dog was mad.
Note Jones told the story of the dog in Veith St. cellar, which was confirmed by Colonel Simmonds.
As to Panic As local agent of the Canadian Press, Jones had gone to the telephone office to telephone the news to Mills at Truro, because the telegraph wires were down and the news could not be sent in the ordinary way. When the alarm came the girls bolted from the building. He understood this was the

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