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MG 1 volume 2124 number 173a

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N.S.

THE DEVASTATED DISRICT OF DARTMOUTH.

NORTH DARTMOUTH.

The most badly wrecked area runs north of and includes Dawson St. Many houses are completely down, several buried in snow drifts, none are unscathed. There is a good view of the Devastated District of Halifax, which resembles a wooded hill after a forest fire. The 'Imo' is aground directly below Dawson St. The Emmanuel Church resembles a toppled card house. The Stairs Memorial Church has west side (toward the explosion) 'stove in'. The Rope Works are badly wrecked. The school near Tuft's Cove still has its spire (or central bell-tower) but very little else. The Breweries are in ruins, but chimney is standing, expensive machinery lying along the railway track, while intact. [xxxxx] One man escaped from the Brewery. There was only one little girl in the demolished Tuft's Cove school but she was unhurt. Many were injured at the Rope Works, but none was killed. All the pine (?) woods are down, in some places over the road. The shore is piled high with wreckage of every description, and the railway bank [xx], within the R. R. fences, is covered with iron from the 'Mont Blanc'. On the shore, the trees and grass are a greyish-black. Large number injured, according to inhabitants.

TOWN OF DARTMOUTH.

This is very like the central portion of Halifax. All windows shattered, many chimneys down, and quite a few houses collapsed. Of the Rink, only half of the facade and the tower remain standing.