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MG 1 volume 2124 number 216

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
Archibald MacMechan, F.R.S.C.
Director
Halifax, N.S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Mr. Ralph Proctor.

Returned soldier. Had been badly wounded. Two vertebrae destroyed. Right leg permanently injured. Bad wound in lung. Had been forbidden to lift any [weiggt] weight for at least a year. Young, [per] perhaps 21 or 22 years of age. Quiet manner.

The morning of the disaster he was at Smith & Proctor's place of business, 582 Barrington Street, in the office in the second floor. Things were badly smashed up there, partitions broken down etc., but only one man was hurt and he not badly.
R. P. helped him to get bandaged up a little. By that time people were coming past cut and bleeding and they realized that the damage was not local. R. P. started for his home, on Gottingen Street above North Street. He got there about 9.30. "Things were in an awful mess." Dug his car out of the ruined garage, using an iron crowbar to move heavy timbers etc. When he got it out he found that a chimney had fallen across the street and he would have to move that before he could take the car from the yard. Some soldiers stopped and helped him to move the heap of bricks. The car started well. He went along Gottingen Street to Richmond. Did most of his work on Macara and Russell Streets. First passenger he picked up was a man whose left arm was hanging by a shred of flesh, he was walking along the street holding the injured arm. R. P. opened the door of the car and he got in beside R. P. Filled the car up with others with pretty bad hurts and went to Camp Hill Hospital. The other passengers were not so seriously injured as the first

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