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Halifax Disaster Record Office
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N. S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Mrs. Clara MacIntosh.
Wife of Dr. G. A. MacIntosh, 464 Robie St.

Description. Little woman. Fair Hair, blue eyes, irregular features. Nervous-energetic temperament.

Was in bed at the time of the explosion. The five windows were smashed in, and glass came upon the bed, but she was not cut. Her maid began to scream,. Ran down stairs in bare feet, over glass, but did not find any injury from it until five days later. Heard children crying on the street. The neighbors soon began to come in with injuries to be dressed. They were walking cases, but some collapsed when they got there from loss of blood. One came from the devastated area, Miss Lillian Giffin, who lives in Campbell Road Was up in the third floor of the Wright's house, near the foot of Kaye Street. The next thing she knew she was on the street, drenched, with her skin black, and a telegraph pole across her. She was to Mrs. MacIntosh "I want a bath." Her coat was riddled, and her underclothes were black and had to be thrown away. She had walked to Dr. MacIntosh's house. She was not badly hurt. Mrs. MacI told her to get a broom and sweep away the plaster. Set the less injured men at work blocking windows etc. She herself controlled hemorrhages until the doctors came, about nine-forty-five, and put in stitches. A soldier came to the door and ordered them to the Common. The house was full of patients, even in the furnace-room. Sound could not move themselves and had to be carried out to the Common opposite the house. Spread blankets and rugs, laid the