The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-02
Receives Bullet in Head; No Hope
Is Held Out for Her
Recovery
SEVERAL ARRESTS ARE LIKELY

As a result of q clash between a
force of eighteen deputies and a body
Of from l5C To 2UU strikers, women and
children, near the North Kearsarge
mine Yesterday morning between
and Z o'clock, Margaret Fazekas, aged
ilfteen. lies at the point of death i'm
the Calumet Public hospital. with a
bullet wound in the head. Her condi-
tior is such that the attending physi-
clans express no hope for her recovery,
The bullet entered her head Just above
ana in front Of her right ear, passing
through the temporal and occipital
bones and permitting her brains to
oozc out. That she has lived so far is
remarkable
Details regarding the shooting are
contradictory the deputies telling one
story entirely different from that of
the strikers.
Investigations by Sheriff Cruise and
Waddell secret service men were con-
Quoted yesterday afternoon and as a
result. ii is said warrants will be is
suco for several of the deputies, but
no action has yet been taken. and it is
unlikely any will be taken until it is
ascertained whether or not the girl
will survive.
The deputies were changing relief,
and claim they were attacked ny the
strikers, who threw stones and other
missiles at them. The attack they as
sert occurred on a corner, the crowd
OF strikers rushing at them from three
Of converging streets and forcing
them TO retreat slowly to a point
near the home Of Joseph Gendron.
where they made a stand. The crowd
surged against them, they claim and
the deputies then fired in the air 20
frighten the men back. The strikers
then spread Margaret Fazekas, who
is the daughter of a widow. was
standing in the rear Of the crowd with
her mother, and the deputies claim she
was struck by random shot, after the
crowd had spread
The strikers assert they were fired
upon by the deputies without the
slightest provocation, while they were
paradi1g peaceably. They claim three
of their number were wounded. but
no wounded men have been found 10y
the authorities and none have applied
for medical aid
Bullets Crash Through House.
The scene Of yesterday mornings
shooting WAS but short distance
from the barn used by the deputies
for headquarters The men in the
deputy party were proceeding TO this
barn in changing shifts
1t is said that prior to the clash in
which the Fazckas girl was shot.
strikers attacked a party of men who
were working at the North Kearsargt
mine and that the soldiers We're called
upon To protect them. Soldiers have
again replaced the deputies on guard
at the North kearsarge mine
The Gendron home, near where the
shooting occurred bears evidence Of il.
several bullet holes having been found
In the house. one bullet smashed a
lamp in the house and sped within a
foot of little girl, finally crashing
into the window frame within 4. few
inches OF a mans head,
Major Apted. in charge of the am
bulance corps in Calumet, rushed 20
Wolverine in an automobile yesterday
morning, but found that Dr. A. g.
Roche has given the girls wound tenn
porary attention and that she had
been taken TO the Calumet Public hos
pital in an ambulance
II is claimed that about fifty shots
were fired in all during the disturb
ancc and reports conflict as to whether
any Of these were fired by the strik-
ers. II is said that most of the shoot
ing from the deputies side was done
by three men.
There were no Waddell secret serv-