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MG 1 volume 2124 number 229

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

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Mrs. Arthur Strong, East Young St.

Saw her little three-year-old daughter, who was ill at the time, blown out of bed into a room across the hall and buried to the neck in glass and broken furniture. Mrs. S. was partly dressed at the time, and badly cut herself but snatched up her three-months old baby and rescued the little girl from the ruins. She then gathered up a few blankets and valuables and left the house as they were warned of fire. She saw the body of the woman in the next house, and dragged [her] a little child from the place. All were badly cut and bruised, and were taken to Camp Hill Hospital and were thence removed to a private house, where they were cared for until they recovered sufficiently to travel to relatives. The strange girl was Margaret Little. She was going to school and saw the burning ship and also the explosion. Both families are now complete and are among the happiest in Halifax, although their homes are completely demolished.

Communicated by Mrs. Fred Palmer to Director personally, December 24, 1917.

Mrs. Arthur Strong, of East Young St. [Hou]

House was ruined. Only two walls standing. One of the pieces of the "MONT BLANC" went through the house. Her husband was a baggage-master on the Dartmouth train and was expected in on the morning of the 6th at ten a.m. The engineer heard an awful noise and stopped the train, thinking some accident had happened to it. Then proceeded. Strong could not work, thinking of what had happened. As soon as possible he went to his home and found it in ruins, but no wife or [childre]