Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-12-27
LOOK FOR men
WHO seized
M0YER
EVIDENCE IS NOW BEING GATHERED
AS TO The MEN RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE OUTRAGE. FUNERALS
OF CHRISTMAS EVE PANIC VIC
TINS TO Be HELD SUNDAY.
CH|LDREN'S CASKETS
ON MEMS SHOULDERS

/ Calumet, Mich, Dee. 27.-Evidence
as to the identity of the men who last
night seized Charles II. Meyer and
John Tanner, officials OF the Western
Federation of Miners. and sent them
out OF the copper strike district, was
| gathered by local officers of the union
today. They announced that several
members of the kidnapping" expedi-
| tion had been recognized and that af-
tidavits as TO their identy had been
obtained from residents of Hancock,
1t was generally believed that these
sworn statements would be made the
basis of warrants for arrests but de-
cision on this point was reserved,
pending the arrival here of Claude o.
Taylor, president of the Michigan
State Federation of Labor, who was
summoned from Grand Rapids, as
soon as the forced departure Of Meyer
! became known.
Much of the activity at the union
headquarters was centered on plans
for the funerals of some seventy vic.
tins of the Christmas eve panic in a
union hall.
Six local churches will be the scenes
of funeral rites tomorrow, the services
being divided according to the ma
tionality and religious beliefs Of the
victims. a few of the dead will not
be buried until husbands and fathers
who journeyed to westward states to
find employment, can arrive here. Ar
rangements have been made for
joint procession to the cemetery,
| where one hundred members of the
federation today dug graves on lots
purchased by the union. All the
Roman Catholics wa be buried in one
section of the cemetery and the Pro
testants on an adjoining plot.
Whether there will be any speaking
at the graves has not been determin.
ed, as President Meyer had this phase
of the plans in charge and the local
union officials had not been informed
of his action in this regard.
Hearses will convey the bodies of
sixteen adults to the cemetery but the
collins containing those of half hun
dred children who were killed in the
panic will be born through the streets
on the shoulders of stalwart strikers.
Four men have been delegated to per-
form this service for each little
casket.
The local union officials announced
that the entire federation membership
from lshpeming and Negaunee in the
iron mining district of Michigan
would attend the funerals A special
train is expected to bring these men
to Calumet tomorrow.
Accounts of Meyers deportation OBJ
tainable today differed in some re-
spects from those available during the !
excitement last night. Then it was
said that three men escorted the union
executive from the Scott hotel in Han
cock across the bridge to the copper
range railroad station in Houghton. !
Todays accounts generally agreed |
that fifty or more men went into the /
hotel and that crowd of several hun
dred awaited them at the railroad sta
ton.
The aflidavits given the union off
cials stated that Meyer was literally
dragged from his room and through
the streets. There was also informa-
ton here that two shots had been fired
and that some members of the eject
ment committee carried buggy whips
which they placed with considerable
frequency on Meyer The manager of
The hotel said that when the intrud-
ers left there, Meyer was unnjured
and was walking upright. No shots
we're fired in the hotel. he said, and
here was no struggle or other evi-
1ence OF disorder within it's walls
ie said, "a number of men" went to ,
Noyer's room. s
First word of the Whereabouts of ,
he federation president came to Calu- ,
net in Associated Press dispatches +,
rom Green Bay, Wis.
These We're followed by telegram +
rom Meyer himself in which he told !
he local officers to carry out plans
previously agreed on and ask them to \
ell the rank and file of the strikers
hat his removal to Chicago need not
iscourage them.
Employees of the Waddell-Mahon cor :
oration and local members of the +
'itiZens Alliance denied Meyers !
harges as to the identity of his assail- =
nts. Only three men employed by ;,
he corporation in question are in the .
trike district now. One of these was u
4 bed, suffering from the effects of 3
eing caught in a jam when he was :,
to rescue strikers chill .
ren from the Italian hall disaster, and =
he other two denied they were in .,
ny way concerned in the deportation. !,
The Citizens Alliance has no formal
rganization and all men approached d
n the subject today said they were C
otally ignorant of the happenings at
hancock h
Efforts to get an authoritative state T
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