Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-12-26
Bitterness Resulting From.
Strike Disappears in Face
of Terrible Christmas Eve.
Tragedy,
NO CLUE TO MAN WHO
GAVE FALSE ALARM
Citizens Do All Possible to-
AmeIiorate Grief of Be
reaved Families No Outside
Aid Wanted,

,sv ~osnso JouHnAL SPECIAL tEssro wiatl
Calumet, Mich, Dec. 25.--On the
dly set aside for rejoicing over the
birth Of Christ, this city mourned It's
dead--seventy-two victims OF false
alarm of fire. Most Of the dead are
children who had gone 10 ~ Christ
mas eve celebration in Italian hall
arranged for the families Of striking
copper miners OF this section.
AZ a result Of the tragedy caused
IL is believed, by a drunken man who
thrust his head into the hall entrance
and shouted fire" all bitterness he
tween the different factions in Calu-
met Is wiped out. There is no III
feeling. There is nothing but dumb
grief which is beyond the possibility
of tears.
4 mass meeting was held this after
noon, at which a committee Of twelve
was appointed TO visit each individual
home Of the bereayed families and
ascertain what financial assistance Is
necessary Unlimited funds are as
gured
with the kindest feeling for those
who offered It. we ask no outside
help" states the resolution ot SYM
nathv adopted These are our own
NfW.llts anu II ~ VAA afANtfhA 70 NfA+NIfN
10 care for our dead and to comfort
The living.
The statement Of President Moyer,
IL the western Federation Of Miners,
that no benefits from the citizens
would be accepted, was disregarded.
The strikers also met this afternoon
and named committee to call on the
strfsetst raIatiVes and learn their
wishes regarding the funerals This
committee VIII meet tomorrow morn
ing to make arrangements for the
services.
The authorities SO far have been
unable to trace the man who Is snld
to have gone up the stairs OF the ltal-
ian hall and raised the cry OF ftre'
which is supposed 70 have started the
panic which led to the fearful crush
In the stairway There seems TO be
little hope that he will he appre-
hended
Matt sari. "a striker, who lost his
son in the disaster, declared the cry
came from a group Of men ana
women toward the front of the hall
A l4-year-old girl who died this morn
ing brought the official revised llst
of dead up TO seventy-two, an OF
whom have been identified. Five in
iured are i'm the hospitals. 1t IS salu
they will live.
Three little girls in the Calumet and
Hecla hospital were able TO-DAY 10 ne
up and about. They romped AROUND
q Christmas tree set up for the pa
tients Of the hospital, unaware OF the
fate which had overtaken some OF
their brothers and sisters. and the
father of one of them. A boy of I or
4 wears of age. who was taken to one
of the morgues, showed signs of life
soon after, but no restoratives and no
phvsician 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 enid.
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 ill-fated hall
Patrick Ryan arrived on the scene
a few minutes after the crush oc-
Cured at the foot of the stairway. lie
estimated that there were about one
hundred piled on top of each other
when he reached the stairway TheN
We're wedged in SO tightly it was I'M
possible to eXtricate any from the
foot Of the stairs. A boy Of about b
caught hold of Mr. Ryan's hands ana
begged to be rescued. The human
mass kept pressing down End 1t was
impossible to save the boy a gifl OF
s or wears grasped the hand of An
at,Afaar firamnn Kissed
them and implored him to save her.
The crush was so great he was conn
PEELED to give up the attempt ana
she perished.
Mrs A. Neimela, one of the victims,
was suffocated While standing up.
John Burrill, q fireman, took o.
months-old infant from her arms ana
carried it to safety
Leonard Woolman, another fire.
man, pushed his way into the STAR
way and took out a boy OF o. unlll-
jured. Near him the lads mother and
his sister Law dead A 7-year-old
brother was taken out later An IL
yoar-old boy rescued his brother OF
9 by carrying him down a ladder
There were other similar rescues
A child hurled from the front Of the
building was caught by spectator
Chief Trudell, of the fire department
caught another boy thrown out Of q
window by his father. John Scarf kill
ed his boy Of 5 years. by falling on
him and he. TOO, perished, Scores es-
capped by passing from a small rear
balcony Of an adjoining house.
President Meyer of the Western
Federation of Miners, today decrled
attempts which had been made local
ly to interpret his statements on the
catastrophe as efforts to make capital
for his immediate needs
He stated emphatically that he had
offered merely testimony of eye Wit
nesses for what that testimony was
worth and that persons who told him