The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-26
HEARTREND|NG SCENES
WITNESSED BY THOSE
Who DID RESCUE WORK

Awakening To the cnormitV of the
Christmas eve catastrophe, when seven.
tv-two men, women ana children went
to Their deaths III "A maddcned rush to
leave the Italian hall, following
the cry Of fire" BY some arch.
lend who is yet unknown, the copper
country is III deep mourning. Gloom
spreads over the entire district. citizens
in all walks Of life are saddcned and the
hearts OF everyone 90 ont i'm sympathy
with the bercaved Nothing is spared
that the heartaches of the parents, broth.
ems and sisters may he allcviatcd. I'm the
dale Of somow, citizens have forgotten
the industrial strife INTO which the dis
trict has been plunged. and are standing
shoulder TO shoulder in an effort TO con
sole those bcrclt Of their loved ones.
With the suhsiding of turmoil deeds
Of hcroism come TO li%ht Foremost
among those who riskcd their lives were
the members of the Red Jacket fire de
partmcnt. who were the first on the
scene. Deputies. mounted police and
members OF the Citizens Alliance work
cd hand in hand and by their untiring
efforts, possibly hundreds were saved
During the struxGlc TO release the mass
Of human tonnS, many men and women
who were in the hall when the panic oc-
Cured, made frantic by the CHASTITY sight
of limp bodies being carried before them.
impeded the work of the reScucrs. In
the confusion, they tugged at the arms OF
those who responded to the call for help,
and time and again they became hyster
zeal while the rescue work was III prog
IcSS.
The heroiSm Of Captain Manley, head
of the Waddcll Mahon force i'll Calumet,
resulted in the saving of many lives,
though he came within an ace of having
his life crushed out. Through mob OF
people. he surged up the fire escape and
pushed his way into the struggling
crowd to the stairway where lc assisted
IN moving the dead and injured. He
was 50 severely hurt that his life was Ill
danger until a late hour.
SAVED BY HEROIC MEASURES,
Every physician in the district re.
spondcd to the call for medical aid and
their efforts were responsible for the say
inc of several lives. Two children were
saved bv artificial respiration, three
were rushed to the G. \ II. hospital, AT
other TO the Tamarack and another boy
70 the Calumet Public. Each of these
children will recover. Unaware OF the
fate of the father Of one Of them, the tots
in The G. e. II. hospital yesterday had
sufficiently recovered to be able to romp
about a Christmas tree that had been
erected i'm one of the wards. They likely
will be sent to their homes tomorrow.
Waino Saari, a%ed seven. Is the pa
tiont at the Laurum hospital. With eyes
fear stained aud Sobbing pltliully, he
told an attendant that his little brother,
AGED ). was killed He pleaded TO be per.
mittcd TO be taken to his father
PHYSICIANS declare that death, Ill most
instances. was instantaneous, the chll'
,lrcn dvin" from the rupture OF arteries
or the crushing Of vital ORGANS, ana me
adults diving from suiocatloh.
Scene after scene was so patlletlc tla'
strong men were compelled to turn lnclr
eyes.
One little tot, after being gwen up loI
dead and taken to the morguc, showed
Sims Of life. Physicians were summon
cd but meanwhile, he had passed away
Nnother little gir. not more than D, lay
Tor fully half hour IN building near
the Inflated hall, apparently coId III
death. While men and women siooG
about the little form. slight move OF
tho hands was noticed, then the feet moV"
ed and the child gaspcd for breath. Sh'
was taken TO Il hospital. -
SCENES ARE HEARTRENDING.
The sight of near " hundred PeH I;''l
pilod into a mass six or more lee' lllgl;
and extending almost thirty feet tow ware
the top Of the stairs was heartre fS5ag
Children begged to be rescued pleaeded,
IN fine throes of death, to be drawn IRON !
the mob and cried amid sobs Of e. cS araot
cintiny pain for their parents 30 gr cav
was the impact that children lylag at at ,l'
treated Above them, men ana /, Wollie''
slowly crushed out the lives oil 'lo'e DC
low. -. ,.l,;of nj
Jacob Kaiser, second assistant eIle a o,
tho Red Jacket department, was tlle lll IL,
it,, ,,nou fine scene. AS ne was CIV