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Department of Agriculture
Province of Nova Scotia

M. Cumming, B. A., B. B. A.
Secretary for Agriculter
Principal, College of Agriculture

Truro, Nova Scotia

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P.S. As a fair story of one of the more fortunate as they thought it, families wo same to Truro I might say that we took to our house a father who although at work on the dry dock when the explosion occurred was unhurt; a mother within one month of confinement; a baby 2 years old and another 1 yr old. The mother had been blown from her front door, where she had been watchin the burning boat, across the street. She arrived at our house at 6 P.M. having worn all day only her night gown, a thin wrapper ad two pieces of cloth taken off a clothes line tied around her feet. She was tired and dozed on her feet swollen and black. Nonetheless she completely recovered in three (3) days and did not have a scar or bruise or any evidence of the disaster. The 2 yr old baby had twenty five cuts sewed