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MG 1 VOL 2124 number 227a

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING

HALIFAX, N.S.

they had been warned. A woman with five children came out but refused to leave. They tried to persuade her but she refused to go. They went to the Golf Links and saw many people there, scattered in bunches. H.L.C. girls came in a body, fully dressed and quiet. A great many not believing that anything would happen. They got tired and cold standing round. They saw one fire started. Then they left the Golf Links they went along Robie St. A man came out of a brown house near the fire station and asked them to come inside.
His manner was strange, but they decided to go in. They found two children one about five and the other about ten --cut in the head and face. The blood was clotted. Her sister and the two Maddin girls stayed while she went to MacLeod's drug store with Jean Munro to get peroxide. Her impression was that this man's wife was too nervous to attend to these children. She and Jean Munro heard that there was any amount of work to do at Camp Hill and went there. When they got to Camp Hill they were asked by a doctor at the entrance if they were trained nurses or had had first aid courses. They were warned not to touch any of the cuts and that there was lots of work to do in the kitchen. They went to the kitchen, poured tea, carried tea to patients, collected dirty dishes, and washed dishes, distributed bread, butter and cheese. Children were cold and dirty, rather than injured. Most of them were crying. It took quite a time to quiet them. They washed their hands and faces. They finished up the dishes and as there was nothing more to do they went back to the Ladies' College, late in the afternoon. Heard that a train was going out at six o'clock to Truro. It left between nine and ten. Phillip's put on a conductor's uniform and took the train to Truro. The other conductor, whose home was in Truro, refused to take the train out. They reached Truro about 3.30 a.m. A special going through with three injured people on board, was held by Phillips. Miss Smith reached home at 6.30