note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions

[Letterhead: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
HALIFAX RESTORATION
WAD/HJS

[on top left]
C.B. BROWN
ASST. GEN'L MANAGER
CHIEF ENGINEER

W.A. DUFF
ASSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER
AND ENGINEER OF BRIDGES

C.H. EDGETT
PURCHASING AGENT

F.M. MACLENNAN
AUDITOR

[on top right]
IN YOUR REPLY REFER TO NO...................

137 - 139 BARRINGTON STREET,
HALIFAX, N.S.]
[handwritten top right: ansd. Feb 12.1918]
[handwritten top right: Tel. 2134J Sackville]

Feb. 5th, 1918

Arch. MacMechan, Esq.,
Halifax, N.S.

Dear Sir: -

In reply to your letter of Jan. 26th with regard to relief work I did on December 6th.

At the time of the explosion I was in the Queen Hotel and immediately left the Hotel and probably spent 10 or 15 minutes in Blackie's drug store helping look after wounded people who came in there. I then left to ascertain what damage had been done to the Railway property and what would be necessary in order to get trains into Halifax. I took a motor car belonging to the Cook Construction Co. and went to North St. Station, which I found badly wrecked, and saw it would be impossible to get trains into North St. Station. I then left North St. Station to go to Rockingham, or the nearest point on our lines at which I could get in telegraph communication with our headquarters at Moncton. On the way to Rockingham I had to go through the devastated district and on my way put as many wounded people as we could in the motor car and took them to the Victoria General Hospital. I then left immediately for Rockingham and arrived there probably about 10 o'clock or shortly afterwards. At Rockingham I found that I could get in comm-