Show I All H HI HN N 1 9 I I HAlifAX I s I II I U m mI O I II I I JAILED Terrific Gale Hampers I II I Relief Work as City is Searched for Bodies I of Disaster Victims I HALIFAX 4 J P Pc Dec The Ih 10 he deck eck cargo argo of the st amer amer 1 Pic ice iceton l ton laden with munitions caught j i fire last night and only the quick and courageous work of a Halifax Halifax Halifax Hali Hali- fax company of riflemen prevented prevent prevent- ed another big explosion in the harbor The men boarded the ship threw the burning cargo j I overboard and checked the j flames before they could spread to the holds The vessel was taken to sea today and sunk By Dy United Press N. N S. S Dec 10 H a. a 1 All German Gelman citizens of Halifax h are aro being arrested today They w were rc ordered taken into I custody regardless of sex Seven men and one woman had been arrest arrest- arrested ed up to to a a late lato hour last night and arrest I others are arp being rounded up p as rapidly as possible The Tho surviving officers and crews of the steamers Mont Blanc and ond Imo I mo I which collided resulting in the terrific explosion have also been ordered ar ar- ar rested Rescuers were working In a downpour downpour downpour down down- pour of ot rain today and every Indication indication indication indi Indi- cation is that the death toll may be increased over the estimate of at 2000 rather than decreased Premier Sir Robert Borden BonIen announced announced announced an an- cancellation of ot his political engagements lie He will devote his entire time to the relief of Halifax The premier announced that the doI dominion dominion do do- minion government had appropriated I for tor Immediate relief work Borden thanked the people of ot the tho United States for aid that has hag been rendered in a n statement issued toda today I The people of Canada are profound profound- profoundly ly grateful for the generous sympathy of ot the people of the tho United States in inI inthe inthe the terrible disaster which ha has overtaken overtaken over over- I taken the ely ci Of Halifax and they most deeply appreciate the splendid aid I which has been offered and sent from fromI I so many communities of ot our great reat kindred kindred kindred kin kin- dred nation he statement said B Bodies dle have been brought to the general morgue in blocks of ot fifty and a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred at a II time Some are being gradually gradually gradually grad grad- identified With a warm Lain fain slowly turning the tho white streets Into rivers of slush and debris sailors soldiers and civilians today were still laboring in the city of ot f the dead as dawn broke The city Is practically practical law The Tho night was spent in a a. howlIng howlIng howl- howl Ing ng gale that followed the blizzard bUzzard of Saturday With it came a a. rain that increased suffering as tents fell tell and the he wind was driven through Improvised Hun Hundreds who had round found shelter In tents were turned into nto the open again as us a a. mile fifty-mile gale tale crushed tho the improvised ed quarters Relief Hellet units from Massachusetts and Maine which have havo arrived have been assigned quarters and are ore working heroically Bellevue formerly tho the residence of tho lie British general commanding the tho Halifax garrison before Canada took over ver the defense of ot tho the dominion hasteen has hl teen been handed over o to the Massachusetts ra etts lied Iced Cross Croas One hundred and fifty patients can be bo cared for tor there By Oy Associated Press Pre HALIFAX Dec Dee 10 Burial Burial of ot tho victims of the explosion and fire tire hero Thursday ch U a was WAA begun today M Men r n at Fair Fair- Continued on Ott page page ago 21 2 ALL HUNS Continued from page 1 This advertisement view cemetery I called attention in the morning papers I to still another problem problem finding finding mento men mento mento to dig graves graes for the hundreds of dead Health authorities working in cooperatIon cooperation coop coop- with the general relief committee commit commit- tee made It plain that burial must not be delayed Laborers were assigned to the cemeteries cemeteries teries and men who had never expected expect expect- ed to do that sort of ot work assisted In Inthe Inthe inthe the task Little groups of ot sorrowful people went silently to cemeteries adjacent ta the Richmond district utterly wiped out by flames and laid away their dead without friends in attendance and with the commitment rites omitted I There were not enough ministers to toj j officiate for all There were not enough hearses pallbearers and not enough I The dead were laid away with none there but the folks from homes homs now I but a mass mafS of ruins One general genera service was held for all j 0 |