Show BLIZZARD SWEEPS STRICKEN HALIFAX RESCUERS FORCED TO SUSPEND EFFORTS WHEN STORM STALKS IN DISASTERS DISASTER'S WAKE Injured Men Women and Children Buried Under Ruins of Shattered or Burning Buil Buildings ings Perish From Cold a and d Hunger Halifax N. N S. S A S.-A A raging blizzard swept over stricken Halifax on Friday So fierce was the tho storm that rescue workers were forced to suspend their their operations In the devastated section It Is believed belie certain that all the injured in in- burled buried under the ruins of shattered shattered shattered shat shat- buildings have perished of cold an and hunger Battered by a biting wind and blindIng blindIng blind blind- Ing snow the plight of the time survivors of Thursdays Thursday's s holocaust is little short of desperate The windows and doors of virtually ever every house in the city were shattered by bJ the time explosion which wrecked the Richmond section and devastated a large larg part of the water front Improvised barricades of boards gave little protection against the elements and attempts to heat buildings into which the snow is steadily steadily stead stead- ily drifting seemed hopeless The city was again In da darkness kness Friday Friday Fri Fri- day clay night except for the illumination afforded Tor led b by liya JL ji scanty supply of oil on lamps and unless these were carefully screened the they were extinguished as soon as lighted by the gale which h ch whistled through the time crude shutters Only a small percentage of the buildings buildings buildings build build- ings had even this slight protection fr from m the lie storm The suffering of those who escaped injury was increased b by the fact that every a available blanket quilt and comfort comfort com corn fort had been requisitioned for the hundreds of Injured In the t temporary hospitals Many of these are so gravely grave grave- grave I l ly wounded their only hope lies In the best of care fears feats are felt i that cold shock and exposure will result re re- re- re suit sult In an outbreak of pneumonia There Is enough food on hand for immediate needs but it will last only a short time unless additional supplies are fire received Hundreds of bodies have been taken to the morgues and rescue squa squads s are constantly finding new victims victims vIctims vIc vIc- vic vic- tims buried under tons of f debris until until un un- un- un til tEl the time blizzard bUzzard forces them to cease work There Is every reason to believe that man many more will be recovered reco |