This picture was taken at the corner of Queen and Green Streets, three miles from the scene of the disaster, a few minutes after the explosion, and shows the cloud of smoke from the explosion. ] [Illustration: This picture shows another view of the cloud of smoke from the explosion. This smoke cloud swept over the north end of the city and was visible in all sections of Halifax for more than a quarter of an hour. By courtesy of G. V. D. V. ] [Illustration: In one brief minute this home was smashed to atoms. Furniture and bathtub can be seen mixed up in the debris. ] [Illustration: This view is looking down on the roof of North Street Station and shows how that building was battered up. ] [Illustration: This is an interior view of North Street Station after the explosion showing the roof smashed in and wreckage trains carrying debris away. ] [Illustration: All that is left of St. Joseph’s Church. ] [Illustration: Ruins at Richmond. This picture was taken shortly after the explosion. ] [Illustration: All that is left of a residential section in the North End. ] [Illustration: The havoc wrought among stores and homes on Gottingen Street. ] [Illustration: This is a view of Roome Street School in the heart of the devastated area. As can be seen this building was completely wrecked. ] [Illustration: Crowds swarming into Chebucto Road School to identify the dead. ] [Illustration: This is a view of the new Alexander McKay School. It now resembles a shell-torn building in Flanders. ] [Illustration: Crashing chimneys fell on the sick and dying and added to the awful horror of the explosion. ] [Illustration: Motor lorries conveying the wounded to the new Military Hospital on Camp Hill. ] [Illustration: This picture shows wreckage of Fire Chief Condon’s automobile after the explosion. ] [Illustration: This picture shows the post office and customs house before the explosion. Although these buildings are located two miles from the scene of the explosion, they were more or less damaged. ] [Illustration: A view of the wrecked St. Joseph’s School, with the ruins of St. Joseph’s Church showing in the rear. ] [Illustration: Searching for bodies in the basement of a school. ] [Illustration: The effect of the explosion on rolling stock and track. ] [Illustration: Coffins piled up in front of Chebucto Road School at the funeral of nearly 100 unidentified dead. ] [Illustration: Homeless people of the North End were forced to spend the night in canvas tents. ] [Illustration: So terrific was the explosion that horses were torn from their waggons and instantly killed. ] [Illustration: This is a scene at Richmond and shows how completely the buildings in that section were demolished. ] [Illustration: