| Show SCORES TRAM thail ailt LED TO BEATH DEATH IN PANIC celebration TURNED INTO MOURNING AS OF FALSE ALARM OF FIRE in mad ruh rush fop for exits tho the weaker one once are thrown down and trampled to death by those tho so who thought only of self calumet mich moro than eighty persons m mostly children were killed wednesday night at a christmas Chrls thias celebration held by copper mine strikers in hl italian hall because of a needless panic caused by ci a false alarm of fire while several hundred miners an and d their wives nives looked on and scores of children pressed eagerly towards the stage to recene christmas presents a man stuck his head in at the door of the hall and yelled firo viro 11 tho the cry was taken up at once by those in the hall everyone sprang up and started tor for the doors tho the weaker persons were throws to the fluor u and those behind tried to climb over the human barrier la in a few minutes the panic was nas stopped by the fact that the stairway and the other avenues of egress were ere blocked so effectively that those inside could not get out and those without could not get in to aid the maimed and remove tho the dead the alarm was spread outside the hall by a few person who had been near tho the door and escaped unhurt A crowd cro wd soon assembled and the work of clearing the hall was begun tho the only regular exit was a narrow stairway at the back of the hall when this had bad been cleared ot 0 tho the bodies it was found that seventy four corpses had been beep laid in fn a row raw beside the hall building it was thought that probably a dozen more had been carried away by friends tho the dead included thirty seven girls nineteen boys thirteen women and five men excited relatives stood about the building some dazed by the sudden change from holiday lestini ties to tragedy others calling hysterically for a missing child and a few even threatening violence to the res cuers auers for keeping them from the long ions row of bodies |
