Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Dec. 6, 1917, as coverage of the ship explosion in the Harbor of Halifax, Novia Scotia, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Dec. 6, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 6, 1917, more than 1,700 people were killed ...

AT 430. NOTHING THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN, TELEGRAPHED, OR SAID CAN EXPRESS TO YOU THE HORROR OF THE DISASTER OF THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 6TH. WE’RE FROM HALIFAX. A LETTER WRITTEN MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO.