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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORDS OFFICE
ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, F.R.S.C.
DIRECTOR
HALIFAX, N.S.
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Miss McKinnon was working upstairs in ward H. or L. In one corner of the ward were eight or nine people. Miss M.'s whole time was occupied in waiting on them. Mostly women and children. There was one man, Joe McCabe, very despondent because he did not know what had become of his wife and children. Asked Miss M. to telephone for new to a house next to his wife's mother's in Sullivan St. His wife was killed. His eyes were badly hurt. He himself thought he was blind. Miss M. thought him a car-conductor
Case of Mrs. , husband employed in H. M. C. S. "MARGARET" She had come from Toronto, in order to spend his Christmas leave with her husband. Left shoulder very badly bruised, child lost, but husband not injured. Case of Mrs. Crosby. Seemed to take satisfaction that her hair was braided at the time of the disaster in six tiny braids. Was always getting ready for some such event. Two of her sons were killed in Hillis' Foundry. Miss M. could not tell her. Face badly cut. Small cuts. Did not seem very ill. Case of Mrs. MacIntosh, woman in the early twenties, back injured by "house fell in a heap", Her two children and her husband were not hurt. She had spinal trouble before the explosion and must have suffered very much. As Miss McKinnon was tidying up, Mrs. MacIntosh told her to leave the soda-cracker on the table beside her bed, because she was going to put her belongings in the drawer, and wanted to see if she could trust her neighbor not to take them. She pretended that she was lying on her left side solely in order to watch the cracker, when as a matter of fact it was the only position in which she was comfortable. At four o'clock she told Miss McKinnon to take it away as she was



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