Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-12-26

fate which had overtaken some ol
their brothers and sisters, and the
father of one of them. A boy of OF
wears of age. who was taken TO one
of the morgues, showed signs of life
soon after but no restoratives and no
physicians were immediately available
and death ensued.
One couple entered the town hall
where all the bodies had been gath.
cred, to look for their missing child
Their hopes ran high when they had
looked at seventy of the bodies and
failed to find their loved one, but the
last body they viewed, the seventy
first, was that of the missing one.
Members of the Calumet fire de-
partment relate many instances OF
heroic attempts to rescue the panic
stricken people in the Inflated hall.
Patrick Ryan arrived on the scene
a few minutes after the crush oc-
cured at the foot of the stairway He
estimated that there were about one
hundred piled on top of each other
when he reached the stairway. They
were wedged in so tightly it was inn
possible to eXtricate any from the
foot of the stairs. A boy of about G
caught hold of Mr.. Ryans hands and
begged to be rescued. The human
mass kept pressing down and it was
impossible to save the boy. A girl OF
s or . years, grasped the hand of An
gelo Curto, another fireman, kissed
them and implored him to save her.
The crush was so great he was COM
PEELED to give up the attempt and she
perished.
Mrs. A. Neimela, one of the victims,
was suffocated while standing up.
John Burrll, fireman, took a e.
months old infant from her arms and
carried it to safety,
Leonard Woolman, another fire
man, pushed his way into the stair
way and took out boy of 6. unin.
iured. Near him the lads mother and
his sister lay dead. A 7-year old
DICtllel was tdhel put idtSit All l.
year-old boy rescued his brother { t
8 by carrying him down a ladder.
There were other similar rescues.
A child hurled from the front Of TIE
Chief Trudcll, of the hie department,
caught another boy thrown out cf 9
window by his father. John Scarf kill
ed his boy of ) years, by falling on
him and he, too, perished. Scores es
capped by passing from small rear
balcony of an adioinin. house
President Meyer of the Western
Federation of Miners decried attempts
which had been made locally to inter
pret his statements on The catastrophe
as efforts to make capital for his nl-
mediate needs.
He stated emphaticallv that he had
offered merely testimony of eye wit
nesses for what that testimony was
worth and that persons who told liin
that the miscreants who started the
panic by calling fire" wore the in
sigma of the Citizens Alliance, would
be produced as witness at the cor.
oner's inquest.
Offers of assistance from union la.
Dor sources came in rapidly through
out the morning. First of these was
a telegram from William B. Green,
secretary Of the United Mine Work
ers at indianapolis, giving $4,000 to
the union relief fund. 1t was followed
shortly by message from Butte,
Mont, saying that federation mem
bers in that city could be called upon
for any amount up to 100000. Presi-
dent Meyer said that he had with diff
ticulty kept in bounds the parents and
other relatives of victims of the panic
The report that an enemy of the
uniou had started the panic, spread
rapidly among the strikers and there
were many threats of reprisals. The
head of the organization pointed out
that the absence of any outward act
was but another example of the re-
straint of the strikers from the begin
ming of the trouble, five months ago.
Jacob Kaiser, assistant chief, was
said bodies were then piled six deep
in the stairway and men, women and
children were paving their way over
the human heap to the street. When
one of them slipped, the struggling
mass climbed over him and he was
lost.
Kaiser climbed ladder and gained
entrance to the hall through win.
dow. He found four dead in the ticket
Office. Women and children were
and he could do nothing to
stop the stampede to the stairs.
Kaiser said fully one hundred per
sons were taken down ladders by
firemen at the front of the building
A man with baby in gocart EN-
deavored to push his way out the
windows and firemen forcibly held
them back until they could be taken
out safely.
A woman and her two children
crawled out on the cornice and were
about to jump. when they were re.
strained by firemen who carried them
down ladders.
Subscriptions for relief of the be.
reaved families reached $1,000 yes
terday, making total of more than
10000 raised in the copper country
% date.
Chief among the mourners is Joe !.
Calumet's giant, who de.
led company of soldiers. He sobbed |
ike a weakling as he knelt in the !
NOW and stroked the face of his |
hree dead children. Mehichich was
.aptured by the militia five months !
lgo when a mob charged the shaft !