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MG 1 vol 2124 number 179

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING

HALIFAX, N.S.

Explosion ---Sight

Tremendous column of smoke shot up to great height and spread out in light fleecy clouds. (C.H. Creighton)

Big, white smoke. (Major J. P. Edwards)

Huge pyramid of billowed flame with apex waving sinuously, evidently in heated air, To the right or east of the flame was a huge, white, billowy cloud of fleecy whiteness. In a few moments more it changed to a squat, black pall which drifted slowly over the sky southward (Dr. Fraser-Harris)

Puff of red flame four or five hundred feet high with smoke cloud above it. (B. S. Hartley)

Large cloud of yellowish gray rising skywards. As it rose, it took on the form of a huge flower unfolding in the air. (Dean Llwyd)

Big puff of smoke, with flame going up through the centre. (unknown man, eyewitness of the explosion)

Big black ball shot into air 1000 ft. (Mr. Slaney, eyewitness)