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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
8
Continued from prior page, officials await a more accurate survey before an official announcement. A munition ship ablaze steams toward Halifax raising warnings of renewed danger during harbor approaches.
A exhausted carrier pigeon seeking refuge in a house near the burned area became the center of a police and military inquiry. The bird carried a message in German or Austrian, though authorities later withheld details and a quartermaster sergeant's wife said no message was carried.
Enumerates numerous individuals presumed dead linked to a Halifax event. Includes names such as Isaac Creighton, Dr. Murdoch Chisholm Hogan, John Harris, W. David Whiston, Mrs. Stockhall and child, Mrs. Sweatman and child, Mrs. Myers, 56 Union street, Hazel Beares, I. Rost, and many others across streets like Union and North Dartmouth with various family groups and work associates.
Statements from Imp survivors allege the Mont Blanc did not show a warning flag for explosives and that both ships misread signals amid mist. They claim Mont Blanc came on the wrong side, the Imo on the Dartmouth side, and that the fire prompted only a rush of crew, not fear of explosion. Sixty men loading provisions on the Picton at Acadia sugar refinery are missing after the wreck, and prominent locals begin patrolling as constables to ease police strain.
Miss Martha Manter of Lowell Massachusetts was buried for 30 hours under ruins in zero weather and blizzard conditions. She survived the blast and was located at the Massachusetts Unit Hospital in Halifax, then on the road to recovery.
Halifax relief committee sends a resolution thanking Massachusetts for sympathy relief supplies doctors nurses and hospital units. It also credits A C Ratshesky for expert advice and sympathetic activity aiding Halifax in the wake of the citys devastating loss of life and destruction.
American hospital and relief units worked at full blast as Boston dispatched a special relief train. The death toll would have been larger without aid. Supplies arrived to ease distress and the homeless shed burned clothing for warmer garments and comfort.
American surgeons at Bellevue Hospital treat glass and steel fragment wounds from the wreck and its aftermath. Massachusetts unit leaders credit Colonel Bell for hospital readiness and praise inter Allied cooperation while noting beds and supplies steady and recovery progressing.
Charles O. Bourne of 218 Howard Street Melrose claims to manufacture tags used to identify carrier pigeons. He says he makes 100000 tags annually and sells to pigeon fanciers across the continent, noting the tag 29 29 denotes the pigeon’s coop number.
The Red Cross praises a local response to its request for old kid gloves. A cleanser firm has cleaned hundreds of pairs and stores at 755 Boylston street will collect gloves weekly for disposal to the headquarters. Readership is urged to continue sending gloves.
Milton resident Michael Henry narrates severe rheumatism suffering since 1914 and bankruptcy from prior care. He credits Osmo-Chemic treatment and Snow Pencil demonstrations with enabling daily work without pain or crutches, urging readers to seek consultation and trials.
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