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MG 1 vol 2124 number 231

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORDS OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFAX, N.S.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Sutherland, C. Barber Carroll Bros.
Home 136 Lockman St.
Description Pale, sandy-haired man. Large thin face, aquiline nose, high forehead. Slight and delicate looking. Questioned by Director in the shop December 18th 1917.

No one was hurt in shop. Al ran out into the street and soon came back. Women came down from the Dennis Building and the barbers dressed their cuts with peroxide, cotton wool, sticking plaster, etc., which they had in stock. Was warned by soldier to leave shop on account of danger of second explosion and "beat it" as far as Spring Garden Road. Then decided that if it was going "to get him" would get him anyway. Saw Dominion Express Co. wagon. Driver asked him to help. He got in and helped to remove forty injured people to Camp Hill Hospital. Estimated that four hundred vehicles of every description were employed removing the wounded. They had to drive slow, motors could drive fast. Came up and down Barrington St. Apparently no lack of willing helpers. "Them soldiers worked like niggers". Included all in his praise. Soldiers, sailors, English, Canadian, American. According to this man there was no confusion. "We were told where to go." Found injured persons collected, who were lifted into the wagon by soldiers. S. spoke of women sitting in their ruined homes "waiting for the husband to come home." and the husband dead. No getting them to quit their poor, little places. Nothing would induce them to leave. The only way was to snatch up children and get them into a motor, as if running away with them.


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MGI volume 2124 number 231