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from the Mission, arrived about the same time as I did, & then Storm & Holmes with their medecines &
syringes etc. I started by turning out the crowd, no easy job but very necessary, then the doctors were
able to work. Even with all that had happened, some of the people disapproved of the womens' faces
being uncovered. There were some terribly sad sights, women with children & one little boy who looked
just as if he was asleep, but nothing did any good. After a time some more natars arrived, very necessary
too as the crowd were trying all the time to get in, many of them afraid that they had relations among the
dead and injured. Haenige who was in the Mission Hospital appeared and was very useful, also Hopper
who produced a Ford truck & then other people arrived all having been at the Muharram procession down
in the town. Eventually we got several lorries and carried all the dead & wounded into them & so to the
Womens Hospital which very soon became crammed, all the wards & verandas upstairs & below as well.
When everyone had been moved I left the place as by then there were lots of people to help. I went down
to the Agency to see Cole & found him entirely unaware that anything had happened. Even when I told
him he seemed quite unconcerned & didn't realise what a shocking disaster it was. Spent all the afternoon