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

MG 1 volume 2124 number 161 a

second time. It was about eleven o'clock.. Saw motors with whole families in them, speeding south, and "hundreds of people" going in the same direction. Was with the party in motor which took Captain Lemedec of the "MONT BLANC" to the French Consul Gaboury, at his house at the head of the Arm. (Miss J. MacAloney saw motor there and recognized H. Jones). Captain would not talk. Left him there and came round via Dutch Village, through the desolated district. He actually saw the crowd on the Common. It was "dense".
The wounded were being carried to the Hospitals in every kind of vehicle, from a motor to a milk-wagon. He "heard that there were three births on the Common". He saw a man's leg drop out of a truck as he went by." When they boarded the "Middleton Castle" for which Pickford and Black were also agents, previous to the "IMO", he was told that one dead man was a "sight" and that he had better not look. The corpse was lowered over the side on a board, one end of which tilted, and the brains fell into the boat, almost on one of the men in it.
Fortitude Cyril Gorham had three of the bones of his left hand broken, but continued to aid in bringing in the wounded. When asked to have his hand dressed at the hospital, each time he said "I can wait."
Note Jones was a witness of the fires in Richmond. He said they were 'individual'. There was no conflagration. Thus confirming W. Robinson, Naval Instructor R. N. C. C.
Generosity. A woman in Veith St. kept a small shop of the corner variety. Building was ruined by shock. Gave away all her stock to her poor neighbors, saying "I can go to service again".

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