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[embossed letterhead:
[Top left]
[Underline] CABLE AND TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES:

[Column 1]
BRANTFORD, LIVERPOOL
WELLDECK, LONDON
BRANTFORD, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE
BRANTFORD, CARDIFF
BRANTFORD, LEITH
FURNESS, ROTTERDAM
FURNESS, ANTWERP
FURNESS, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA

[Column 2]
FURNESS, MONTREAL
FURNESS, NEW YORK
FURNESS, BOSTON, U.S.A
FURNESS, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
FURNESS, BALTIMORE, MD.
FURNESS, NEWPORT, NEWS
FURNESS, NORFOLK, VA.
SIGMA CHICAGO
[centered bottom of both columns] FURNESS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD

[top right of page]
MANCHESTER LINDERS, LIMITED
HOLLAND AMERICA LINE
CANADA LINE
CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES LTD.

[centered underneath the above]
FURNESS, WITHY & CO., LIMITED
HALIFAX, CANADA

[end of letterhead]]

April 10th '18.

Halifax Disaster Record Office,
Box 25, City.

Dear Sirs:

Referring to your circular No. 1 in regard to facts in connection with the Disaster. As you are no doubt aware, out of 80 men we had working at the Acadia Sugar Refinery, 71 were killed, 6 seriously injured and 4 slightly injured. We enclose a narrative in connection with same.

Yours truly,
for FURNESS, WIHY & CO. LTD.

[signed] J. E. Furness
DIRECTOR.

J.J. B/2.
Enclo. [handwritten in pencil to left of this notation: Carew [underlined four times]]

[handwritten in pencil top right: MG 1 vol 2124 number 54]