We felt we would be safe there. but next morning the oil: tanks burst and caught fire along the wharf. The burning oil all but caught us. Captain Robinson cruised about in the burning oil all the morning with only one propeller, At one time we thought all was over; then a tug came along and we got clear, The Empress of Canada came next day and T got the patients over and here we are, refugees, and being taken to Kobe.
There is not a building left and the whole formation of the place has changed. How we are here I don't know. Thousands must be dead. The Messers and Ivys are on board and really many more than one would have expected. All the passengers have been so good in giving up their clothes and the men have been splendid. The one able-bodied patient we had was wonderful-—Tiny White he is known as and he is with us still. Last. night for the first time I got some sleep and feel.a little better now, but the strain of getting all the paralysed people along was awful.
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