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MG 1 volume 2124 number 180

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

PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Warrena Maddin.
Student at Dalhousie College, boards 32 Morris St.

Room faces [north] north. Was in bed at the time of the accident. Thought it was a German air-raid, and that bombs were dropped outside the window. Glass came in. Was not injured. Went for cellar. Later dressed and went down town to telegraph, along with Laura Smith Elsie Phillips, Pearl Hopgood, Jean Munro. Found crowds of people in the telegraph offices, trying to get messages off, but unable to do so. Were informed that telegraph employees had been injured and apparatus damaged. Met her younger sister, who had been at the Academy. Girls went together up Spring Garden Road. About the Baptist Church a motor-truck with soldiers in it overtook them, going up Spring Garden Road. Soldiers warned them of second explosion. Laura and Clara Smith and the two Maddin girls proceeded along Queen St. and South St. to the Golf Links where they remained about half an hour. Were then going to Professor Finlayson's, who is a cousin of the Misses Smith. At a brown house on Robie St. near the Fire Station and opposite Dalhousie College, a man, fair, fat, clean-shaven, asked them to come in to identify a couple of children he had brought down from the North End in his car. He had picked them out of the gutter. Car was [drive] driven by a soldier and was standing in front of the house. His wife was helpless. The children were two girls, one about eleven years of age, the other younger. They were sitting up. The eldest girl said "Go ahead with the other one first." Warrena Maddin went to Buckley's Drug Store to get iodine. When she returned to the