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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Halifax Catastrophe - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: September 23, 2016 [EBook #53135] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HALIFAX CATASTROPHE *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - _Views of the - Halifax Catastrophe_ - Showing Effects of Explosion - _December Sixth ❧ 1917_ - - H. H. MARSHALL Ltd., Publishers’ Agents - Sole Distributers - Halifax, Canada - - PUBLISHED BY ROYAL PRINT & LITHO Limited - HALIFAX, Canada - - - - - _The Halifax Catastrophe_ - - - ¶ Forty Views—showing extent of damage - in Canada’s historic city as the result - of terrific explosion on Thursday, - December 6th, 1917, which killed 1500 - men, women and children; injured 3000 - and rendered 6000 homeless; causing - property damage of nearly $50,000,000 - - Issued by ROYAL PRINT & LITHO LTD. - HALIFAX, CANADA - - Copyrighted 1917 - - - - - INTRODUCTION - - -Thursday, December sixth, 1917, will be ever memorable as the date of -the great disaster which, with catastrophic suddenness, burst upon the -beautiful and old historic city of Halifax, causing widespread -destruction, death and desolation, the magnitude of which finds no -parallel in our history. The fateful morning dawned both fine and fair, -and the normal activities of the busy city were set in motion for the -day. No one dreamed that in the magnificent harbor of Halifax the -opening scene in a terrible drama of tragedy was already staged. - -Proceeding up the harbor, and making for Bedford Basin, was the French -steamer “Mont Blanc,” carrying a deck cargo of benzine and an under -cargo of some three thousand tons of nitro-glycerine, and the world’s -most powerful explosive, “T. N. T.” Leaving the upper harbor and -steaming at slow speed was the Norwegian steamer “Imo,” with a cargo of -relief for the war sufferers of Belgium. Slowly the two vessels -approached each other; nearer and nearer they drew, reaching the Narrows -between the harbor and Bedford Basin, at which point they should have -passed. Then happened the inexplicable—save for the fatal phrase -“Someone had blundered”! The Norwegian vessel collided with the “Mont -Blanc,” and almost immediately her deck cargo of benzine caught fire and -a few minutes later, at five minutes past nine to be exact, the three -thousand tons of high explosives aboard exploded with a dull -reverberating roar and a crash that defies description. In a second of -time it was as though a fierce tornado had swept the City. The whole -North End, practically two square miles of territory, became a burning -ruin. A considerable section of the water front was completely -shattered, and all over the city, public buildings and private dwellings -were wrecked, and not a window remained anywhere intact. - -The preponderating magnitude of the calamity can be somewhat realized by -the terrible toll of dead and wounded. The casualties were truly -appalling—1,200 dead, 2,000 or more wounded, and 6,000 rendered -homeless. Property damage was estimated to be between Forty and Fifty -Million Dollars. - -The scenes following the great convulsion are utterly beyond the power -of language to describe. Chaos reigned supreme, and our vocabulary fails -to depict the heart-rending scenes witnessed on the streets and in the -hastily improvised hospitals and morgues. Gallant acts of amazing -heroism are recorded, and Halifax will never fully know all she owes to -the military and naval forces stationed in the city for their -magnificent services, so promptly rendered in the hour of her dire -disaster. - -No sooner had the appalling news flashed across the cables than messages -of sympathy and offers of practical aid poured in from all parts of the -Dominion and the U. S. A. The local Relief Committee was inspired and -heartened by the prompt despatch from Boston of a special relief train, -bringing a corps of doctors, surgeons, and Red Cross nurses with full -equipment, under the direction of Hon. A. C. Ratchesky, the personal -representative of Governor McCall of Massachusetts. Premier Borden -arrived in Halifax on Friday morning, and issued the following statement -expressive of the keen appreciation which all Canada felt at the -magnanimous assistance of the American people: - - “The people of Canada are profoundly grateful for the generous - sympathy of the people of the United States in the terrible disaster - which has overtaken the City of Halifax, and they most deeply - appreciate the splendid aid which has been offered and sent from so - many communities of our great kindred nation.” - -In an incredibly short space of time, considering the tremendous nature -of the calamity, confusion took on the semblance of order, and the eager -hands of willing citizens were busily engaged under the direction of -committees in ministering to the maimed and injured, reverent burial of -the untimely dead, catering for the hungry and providing for the -thousands rendered destitute and homeless through the sudden stroke of -swift catastrophe which has laid the city low. - -Not yet, at this hour of writing, has Halifax recovered fully from the -shattering blow of that fateful Thursday, the sixth of December; but -with optimistic fortitude, with courage and with ardor, is already -grappling with the Herculean task of reconstruction; and thus it is that -the gloom of the present is even now radiantly relieved with the gleam -of a splendid vision—The Greater Halifax of Tomorrow. Surely here is -ample evidence that there is something in man, frail and human as he is, -which nevertheless defies and rises above catastrophe. - - HAROLD T. ROE. - - Halifax, December 14th, 1917. - -[Illustration: - - This picture was taken at the corner of Queen and Green Streets, three - miles from the scene of the disaster, a few minutes after the - explosion, and shows the cloud of smoke from the explosion. -] - -[Illustration: - - This picture shows another view of the cloud of smoke from the - explosion. This smoke cloud swept over the north end of the city and - was visible in all sections of Halifax for more than a quarter of an - hour. - - By courtesy of G. V. D. V. -] - -[Illustration: - - In one brief minute this home was smashed to atoms. Furniture and - bathtub can be seen mixed up in the debris. -] - -[Illustration: - - This view is looking down on the roof of North Street Station and - shows how that building was battered up. -] - -[Illustration: - - This is an interior view of North Street Station after the explosion - showing the roof smashed in and wreckage trains carrying debris - away. -] - -[Illustration: - - All that is left of St. Joseph’s Church. -] - -[Illustration: - - Ruins at Richmond. This picture was taken shortly after the explosion. -] - -[Illustration: - - All that is left of a residential section in the North End. -] - -[Illustration: - - The havoc wrought among stores and homes on Gottingen Street. -] - -[Illustration: - - This is a view of Roome Street School in the heart of the devastated - area. As can be seen this building was completely wrecked. -] - -[Illustration: - - Crowds swarming into Chebucto Road School to identify the dead. -] - -[Illustration: - - This is a view of the new Alexander McKay School. It now resembles a - shell-torn building in Flanders. -] - -[Illustration: - - Crashing chimneys fell on the sick and dying and added to the awful - horror of the explosion. -] - -[Illustration: - - Motor lorries conveying the wounded to the new Military Hospital on - Camp Hill. -] - -[Illustration: - - This picture shows wreckage of Fire Chief Condon’s automobile after - the explosion. -] - -[Illustration: - - This picture shows the post office and customs house before the - explosion. Although these buildings are located two miles from the - scene of the explosion, they were more or less damaged. -] - -[Illustration: - - A view of the wrecked St. Joseph’s School, with the ruins of St. - Joseph’s Church showing in the rear. -] - -[Illustration: - - Searching for bodies in the basement of a school. -] - -[Illustration: - - The effect of the explosion on rolling stock and track. -] - -[Illustration: - - Coffins piled up in front of Chebucto Road School at the funeral of - nearly 100 unidentified dead. -] - -[Illustration: - - Homeless people of the North End were forced to spend the night in - canvas tents. -] - -[Illustration: - - So terrific was the explosion that horses were torn from their waggons - and instantly killed. -] - -[Illustration: - - This is a scene at Richmond and shows how completely the buildings in - that section were demolished. -] - -[Illustration: - - All that remains of several large buildings in the devastated area, - where the full force of the explosion was felt. -] - -[Illustration: - - This is a picture of Clayton & Sons, Clothing Manufacturers’ block on - Barrington Street, one of the largest buildings in the city. - Practically every pane of glass in this building was shattered. -] - -[Illustration: - - This is an interior view of the tailoring department of Clayton and - Sons. This picture was taken after the blizzard of Friday and shows - the snow piled up on the tables and the damage to the stock by the - storm. -] - -[Illustration: - - Rows of unidentified dead in the basement of Chebucto Road School. -] - -[Illustration: - - Amid the Blinding Blizzard of Friday many found shelter in rows of - canvas tents. -] - -[Illustration: - - Wreckage of homes in the devastated area. -] - -[Illustration: - - This shows how completely the train entrance to North Street Station - was wrecked. The whole roof was swept away. -] - -[Illustration: - - THE HOME OF THE HALIFAX HERALD AND THE EVENING MAIL AFTER THE - EXPLOSION. The Herald building is situated more than two miles from - the scene of the disaster, and so great was the explosion that every - pane of glass in the building was shattered. On the north and west - sides (not shown in the picture) the greatest damage was caused, - frames and glass being blown in on the presses and other parts of - the plant. -] - -[Illustration: - - The motor fire engine “Patricia” as she appeared when purchased by the - City of Halifax a few years ago. -] - -[Illustration: - - The motor fire engine “Patricia” as she appeared after the explosion. -] - -[Illustration: - - This house is situated more than a mile from the scene of the - explosion, but the interior was completely wrecked and the furniture - was blown out on the street. -] - -[Illustration: - - Searching for human lives amid the debris in the devastated Richmond - section. -] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: - - All that is left of two homes in the Richmond section. -] - -[Illustration: - - Oland’s Brewery. This building is a complete wreck and all that - remains standing is the smoke stack. -] - -[Illustration: - - The Protestant Service at Chebucto Mortuary, from which nearly 100 - unidentified dead were buried. -] - -[Illustration: - - The Roman Catholic Service at Chebucto Mortuary, from which nearly 100 - unidentified dead were buried. -] - - - - - TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES - - - 1. Silently corrected typographical errors. - 2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. - 3. 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