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MG 1 VOL 2124 number 205

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING

HALIFAX, N.S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Mr. L. A. Myers, of National Drug Company of Canada
Residence 276 Robie St.

At the time the explosion occurred, Mr. Myers was standing in front of the pate-glass window of the National Drug co. looking up Bedford Row. The seven plate-glass windows in the front of the store broke into bits not bigger than a thumb-nail, and the bits flew all over the office. There were nine people in the office at the time, but none were seriously hurt. Mr. M. had a slight scalp wound --'more spectacular than serious". He thought that a gun on one of the ships in the Harbor had been accidently fired and that the shell had come through the window. He turned to see if the shell had gone through the back of the store. Thought of course, that the damage was purely local. when he saw that other places had been damaged and realized that the destruction was wide-spread, he decided to go home to see about his wife. Some one told him he would horrify his wife if he went home with this head and face all over blood, so he went to the hospital and was bandaged before going home. When he reached his house he found that all the windows on the lower floor had been broken as well as some doors, but there was very little damage done upstairs. His wife was all right, so he came back to the office. Here, on examination he found that the windows in the first four stories were all smashed in, but the fifth story did not have a window broken. Mr. M. says that the air wave could not have been very high.