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MG 1 volume 2124 number 190

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

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Miss Velma Moore, student at Dalhousie University.
Niece [niece] of Professor C. L. Moore.

Was helping at our house on the 6th. After tea went to Camp Hill hospital with Christine McKinnon. "First impulse was to flee; no person to tell you what to do". Miss M. had no previous experience of tending injured persons, nor even of sickness. "Did what we could--binding up wounds and getting what the patients wanted--getting things the medical students wanted from the dispensary, such as bandages, boracic acid, iodine." A. Goode was in charge of the Dispensary and worked till two a. m. Got acquainted with a few of the patients. Mrs. Ward, whose death appeared later in the papers was terribly scalded about the legs and cut. She was attempting to hold the chimney from coming down on her children. The hot water tank fell on her. Her husband is a soldier overseas Mrs. W. was very bright and talkative, telling everything about herself. Mrs. W. had just finished paying for her house.
Miss Travis was brought in from Bloomfield School, not cut but suffering from internal injuries. Baird attended to her and rubbed body with iodine. Saw Mrs. Crowdis. Could see no eye, only a bloody mass.
On Friday Saturday and Sunday, Miss Moore was in the [kitch] kitchen doing ward-work.