Boston Relief Trains Rush to Halifax After Devastating Blizzard
Boston teams rush to Halifax with base hospital care as the blizzard wrecks Richmond and surrounds. Descriptions detail shattered homes, shifting wreckage, and a city dark and stormbound with thousands injured or missing. Rescue squads, soldiers, and Red Cross workers coordinate relief while fears of pneumonia and famine loom amid halted rail service and gasping communications.
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Boston
Halifax
Halifax estimates 20000 homeless after disaster in Dartmouth
Halifax Nova Scotia on December 7 reports property losses between 25 and 30 million dollars with more than 20000 people left destitute. The citizen’s finance committee cites 3000 to 4000 dwellings destroyed and warns that relief must come from Canadians nationwide.
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Halifax
Justice Darris
Citizens of
Dartmouth
Canada
Halifax Victims Aid Fund Grows From Small Private Donation
Mary G. Coleman of Maynard Massachusetts sent two dollars to the Halifax relief fund with a note expressing sympathy. The post office will forward the gift to the Halifax sufferers fund. A Halifax moving picture man lost his camera and sought a replacement while relief workers recount heart rending scenes in the stricken city. Sergeant Robert Arsenault of the Royal School of Infantry told of the destruction, though he was uninjured, and aided in rescue efforts after the explosion near Wellington barracks.
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Mary G. Coleman
Maynard
Mass
Halifax
St. John
Moncton
Robert Arsenault
Royal School of Infantry of
Arsenault
Wellington Barracks
Boston Relief Rushes 10 City Aid to Halifax Disaster
A Massachusetts relief train to Halifax carries Red Cross workers doctors and nurses to assist the injured after the Halifax disaster. At Moncton St John and Fredericton crowds hear harrowing accounts of destruction as 2000 dead and 5000 injured are feared.
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A. C. Ratshesky
St. John
Boston
John F. Moors
Red Cross
Halifax
Moors
Harold G. Gifidings
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
J. BE. A. Supple
E. F. Murphy
John W. Dewis
Donald Baker
Harold G. Giddings
Robert
Massachusetts
Amherst
N. S
of Mercy
Moncton
N. B
Mt. St. Vincent Seminary
Rockingham
James Jackson
New England
EH. WV. Richardson
Fredericton
C. W. Bennett
F. H. Sexton
BH. W. Richardson
Moneton
Relief Train Carries Mercy Through Record Canadian Snow
A relief train speeds through Canada delivering doctors nurses and Red Cross supplies as a winter storm devastates Maine and New Brunswick. The haul includes alcohol gauze and surgical gear with a second train en route to Halifax. Officials warn hundreds to thousands may be dead or wounded.
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Canada
Halifax
Red Cross
Maine Central
Boston & Maine
Canadian Pacific
St. John
N. B
Moncton
A. C
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