Show FOUR THOUSAND DEAD AT HALIFAX EXPLOSION ON MUNITIONS SHIP MN IN HARBOR WIPES OUT WHOLE FAMILIES Twenty five Thousand Made Homeless Following Following Following Follow Follow- Buildings Destroyed Fire ing Explosion ion and Bringing Further Ruin Halifax N. N S. S S. I Four S. Four our thousand persons per per- persons sons were e killed in the burning and und destruction of buildings resulting from the explosion on u a munitions ship Inthe Inthe in inthe the harbor Thursday December G according according ac nc- cording to estimates by the superintendent of morgues whose hose duty it Isto is isto isto to assemble and 1 1 expose e for or i le cation f if possible the Jollies bodies of 01 those inose who perished by shock or fire when the ammunition ship shah Mont Blanc blew blew up in the harbor In one school alone more than children were killed Only Only seven pupils pu pits pils were extricated alive from the ruins of the building The matron and el c emery child at th ih Protestant orphans' orphans home ure are dead Of the 1000 bodies hollies recovered to da dak c only one-half one have been identified Twenty five fi e thousand men women and und children were n made a e homeless l Hundreds perhaps thousands of ol bodies have been consumed b by tune the lames lames' and in scores of cases not only whole families but whole neighborhoods neighbor neighbor- hoods have been wiped out and the tIll names of all their dead may never b be known cnown Men Ien of the naval forces dragged the tIll water vater front Sunday and recovered the bodies of OO sailors soldiers nn an an 1 1 workmen The property property- los loss e variously estimated estl esti mated milted at from to probably will prove to be nearer the he minimum figure Ships Collide The collision occurred near neal pier 8 S In Inthe inthe I the he narrows leading lending from the harbor to Bedford edford basin The lime munitions ship ithe he he Mont Blanc was bound from NewYork New NewYork York for Bedford basin basic when the relief ship hip Imo bound for sea crashed Into lice her The Bont Bout Blanc was pierced on the thu port ort side almost to the engine room The other ship which was only slightly slight slight- I ly y damaged bucl backed ed awa away when flames burst out on the munitions ship and was vas abandoned b by the time crew The captain captain cap- cap tain ain of the Mont Blanc also ordered his ils crew to the time boats hoat as he realized an aim n explosion was inevitable Time The men reached cached shore safely before the time tre tre- n lou bla blurt blast t seventeen se ll n minutes later which blew Mcw their ship to pieces es un and and wrecked ed a a. large part purt of the cit city Many Houses Collapse The business life of the city mind Had begun for the day when the town wa wao shaken haken td hi Its foundations by the time ex ex- Persons in the streets were picked licked up bodily and hurled to the ground round Occupants of office buildings cowered under a shower of fallin falling glass lass and plaster Houses in the Rich Rich- i lond mond section crumpled up and collapsed collapsed col- col I lapsed burying their tenants In the 1 main part of the city where the he buildings ure are chiefly of stone or concrete the damage was confined to tole the le shattering ing of windows and most of the he casualties in this section were cau caused aused ed b by flying glass In the west and nort northwest ends the damage amage was more mor extensive and there the he walls of many man houses mouses were blown to o bits It was in Richmond however how- how ever vei opposite th the scene cene of the time sll lon sion that the havoc was greatest Whole blocks s of pf dwellings mostly of frame rame construction were leveled Fi Fires es Add Add to the Horror T V I Street after street is in ruins and tIll the structures which were left standing by hy bythe hythe the he explosion were destroyed by fires which broke out simultaneously in a acore J score core of places and which it was Impossible Im- Im po possible to check until they had burned themselves out It is believed cd scores cores of f persons who had been heen injured h bj by bythe the he collapse of their homes perished In n the flames from front which they were h helpless to flee Five minutes after the explosion the time streets in all parts parts of Halifax were lied flied with frenzied stricken panic throngs striving to reach the tho outskirts in ill i an nn endeavor r to escape what they Believed was a raid b by a German fleet Heet Hundreds of them theta had hall be been n cut by the Hll shower hower of glass which followed ved the explosion n In the Richmond section the scenes enact enacted d defied d description Seriously injured men and women crawled from iI he the e wreckage of their homes and amid In lay layn In n the streets until they were removed 11 In fn n ambulances and autOl automobiles to ho hos- hos s- s Those Q hurt aided aid aid- 1 ld ed d those more mOle gravely 13 ely injured In Inthe Inthe the he streets plied piled hl high h with debris were verc found the he man mangled lell bodies of or ninny nany om women n and amid children Several everal children hildren were cru crushed to death when wilen they hey were hurled u against telephone 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