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MG 1 VOL 2124 number 202C

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, F.R.S.C.
DIRECTOR

HALIFAX, N.S.

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with their own concerns. McLennan went to look after the people he had rescued first and found that in the meantime they had been taken away. Met a man who told him that his wife was bleeding to death. He got a one-horse team to take his wife to hospital. She was unconscious. He had bandaged her himself. He put this little girl in the waggon [sic] first, as his wife was father up the hill. Another man, presumably a friend, went with him. McLennan visited various houses, digging out living people and leaving the dead under the wreckage. Fires were springing up everywhere, one by one. The soldiers came about noon. McLennan could get nothing, not even a drink of water. Met a man coming down the hill, stout, well-built, middle-aged. He was crying. Told McLennan that his wife and five children, were all killed. This many have been Frederick Cameron, 661/2 Broom St., fitter in C.G.R. Roundhouse McLennan kept working his way towards Fort Needham. Heard no word of second explosion. Met a boy about fourteen coming up the hill, crying. Name Calvin Suttie . Had been working at Hillis's [sic] Foundry, his father and step-mother had been killed, and his little brother. He hadn't a friend in the world. McLennan told him to wait and come home with him, which he did. About one o'clock McLennan was exhausted, having had nothing to eat since the morning. Crossed over in the Dartmouth Ferry with C. Suttie, and walked all the way to Waverley, which he reached about half-past seven, very much exhausted. Next day was the storm, and they could not get to the city. At the time of the explosion, Calvin Suttie was not in Hillis's [sic} Foundry, but at George HIllis's [sic] house repairing Gordon Hillis's [sic] bicycle. McLennan and Suttie did not get back to