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MG 1 VOL 2124 number 272c

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING

HALIFAX, N.S.

ruined area. Soldiers were sent out to warn the people to move southward towards the parks and open spaces. Large numbers went to the Common and the glacis of the Citadel. The magazines were on each side of one thoroughfare along which the injured were being taken to the hospitals. These two magazines were emptied, or rendered harmless, by working parties from the Dock Yard.

The difficulties of providing shelter, food, clothing, for those rendered homeless, were very great, but various public buildings, such as the theatres, were utilized at once. Some found shelter for the night with friends or relatives, many others were taken in by strangers.

It may be said that twenty thousand people were made destitute by the explosion, and, as no building was weather-tight, and relief was not yet organised [sic], their sufferings were severe,