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[communication] with our dispatcher at Truro over our own wires and I gave him a message for Mr. Hayes, General Manager, stating what had occurred at Halifax and giving him also the approximate damage done to property and my estimate of the number of wounded and killed and asked him to have all the doctors, nurses and relief supplies possible sent to Halifax as quickly as possible from places in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

After sending the above message, I visited Military Headquarters and the City Hall, where I offered to do whatever I could in connection with relief and assured them that the Railway would do everything possible to help them, at the City Hall I met Mr. Colwell, Deputy Mayor, and told him what I had done. He then told me he would like me to send out additional messages signed by the Mayor of Halifax, asking for relief. I again went to Rockingham and got in touch with our dispatcher at Truro and asked him to get out messages from the Mayor of Halifax to the different towns of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. After sending those messages for the Mayor, I arranged that the Telephone Company get a wire working for us between Rockingham and the Halifax Ocean Terminals in order to bring in trains to Halifax on their arrival.

Yours truly

[signed] W. A. Duff
Asst. Chief Engineer.

[handwritten in pencil at top: MG 1 vol 2124 number 51 a]