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MG 1 volume 2124 number 192

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

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Miss Florence J. Murray.
Medical student at Dalhousie, fourth year.
Home O'Leary P.E.I. Boards 446 Robie St.

DESCRIPTION

[Inclined to be stout, very fair, pink and white complexion. blue eyes. Brother who had gone overseas was tuberculous. Rather emotional.] Her room faces north. Explosion "like all thunders rolled in one." House shook violently. Ran down stairs, before house ceased to rock and tremble. Thought it was a bomb from an air raid. Went into the street. Saw damages to other houses and realised that there would be need of medical assistance. Went to Buckley's for bandages and iodine. Emptied pills out of the first bottles she saw and filled them with iodine. Woman was half dragged half-carried into the shop with a facial artery cut. Blood was spouting from it. Dressed the injury and left the woman sitting in a chair. The danger was that the hemorrhage could not be stopped. Miss Murray judged that she would be able to walk. Found people in street with cuts and bandaged them. Went to the house of Mrs. Gunn. Found her and Miss Gunn badly cut and dressed their wounds. Within half an hour of the explosion she was on her way to the Victoria General Hospital. Saw injured people being carried past and stopped at Camp Hill, shortly before ten o'clock. Saw ambulances, waggons etc., bringing in the injured. Stretcher-bearers were carrying injured into the hospital. The hundred convalescent were working "like slaves". Some were hardly able to crawl. What struck Miss Murray was "the organization without any organization." Without anyone to direct, everyone was working intelligently, without