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MG 1 vol 2124 number 165

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFAX, N.S.

February 13, 1918.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
G.H. Libby, 111 Roome St.
Now at 110 Hollis St.

Wife was sending children off to school and on going to the door with them saw the ship burning. She went out to the road and stood there watching the fire. There were two children in the house with Mrs. Libby's young sister Ethel Ennis who was 15 years of age. The children were 16 months and 4 months old respectively. Thomas and Kathleen Cann, children of Mrs. Libby by a former husband, were on their way to school. Mrs. Libby went into the house to get Ethel E. to come out and watch the fire. E. E. did not come as she was not fully dressed. Mrs. Libby went to the street again. She just got there when the explosion came. She was carried 'right in behind the house, four or five rods'. When she came to she didn't know where she was. After a bit she got up and came down in front of the house. Found Thomas and Kathleen Cann (Thomas, 9 years old and Kathleen, 4 years old) in the gutter buried in debris. Got them from under the rubbish and water that was covering them and carried them over in the park and laid them down. Kathleen's head was very badly cut. It is still being dressed by the doctor. Thomas was not badly hurt--just surface cuts. Mrs. Libby was not hurt--but her clothes were almost all torn off and she suffered from shock.

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