The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
TINS ARE BURIED
Funerals of Fifty.nine of
Calumet Tragedy.
SAD SCENES AT 0BSEQUIES.
Western Town Still Shuddering From
Blow of Catastrophe--All Factions
United For the Time by the
Sorrow and Bereavement.

Calumet, Mich, Dec. 29.-Fifty-nine
VT those who lost their lives in the
panic of Christmas eve were buried.
More than 10000 men and women
marched in the funeral procession, and
the day was one of mourning through
out the mining section.
Funeral services were held In six
churches. Five of these are located in
Red Jacket and another in Hecla. At
the conclusion of the services the pro-
ceSsions from the churches were joined
in Il single procession that made its
way slowly to Lake View cemetery
There the dead were laid in trenches.
twenty-five on the Catholic side and
the others on the Protestant side. Aft
er the ministers had conducted their
committal services a general service
was conducted near the entrance to the
cemetery.
All morning the death wagons went
hurrying through the community TAX
ing caskets from the homes to the sew
eral churches. Many of the stricken
families live several miles from Calu-
met, and one of the bodies was
brought from Copper City, eight miles
away, for the funeral service. The
collection of the bodies proceeded with
difficulty in many instances, parents
insisting that they would keep them a
little longer, One young woman whose
three children died in the panic threw
herself upon the coffin of one of them
and fought to prevent 1t from being
taken away.
Several of the churches at which the
funeral services were to be held sus-
pended their usual morning services.
At each church special seating arrange
ments We're made for the relatives of
the dead. Even with these arrange
ments many mournerS were unable to
gain admittance to the churches. At
one of the Finnish churches the serv-
ices were halted because of the fire.
quent outbursts of grief.
All Factions Unite.
Shuddering still from the stunning
blow of the catastrophe, the people of
the entire copper country and many
from outside points paid deep tribute
to the dead All factions were united
for the time by the common sorrow
and bereavement as the lifeess forms
were laid at rest In Gods Acre and,
gathered about the long rows Of yawn-
ing graves as the caskets were low
cred into the earth, great multitude
breathed a prayer for the dead and a
petition for lasting peace in the dis
trict which has been stricken nearly
half the year of 1913. The catastrophe
and funeral of the victims brings to a
close year of strife and of sorrow for
the Keweenaw peninSular towns, the
copper mining country, and there was
scarcely one in the vast multitude on
the bleak, snow covered hillsides at
Lake View who did not wish that all
the sadness, all the troubles, all the
dissension, might be buried with the
covering over of the graves Of the
fifty nine martyrs of the great strike.
Mingled in the crowds were rich and
poor, worker and idler, miner and
mine managers, all called out because
pay the last tribute to the departed
The day was dark and dreary, but this
did not serve to keep the people in
doors.
The funeral procession, headed by
fourteen hearses, three, death wagons
and one automobile truck, the latter
carrying three caskets and each of the
vehicles one, marched to the strains of
dirge played by band of Finnish
miners of Mohawk. Immediately be-
hind the hearses marched the striking
miners, who bore the caskets Of all
but three or four of the children, those
three or four being in the hearses
The bodies of forty-four children and
fifteen adults were taken to the ceme-
terry, the adults in hearses and the
children in death wagons.