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T!IK (iFOKG LAN’S NEWS HR 1 EES.
PANIC AT CHRISTMAS PARTY COSTS SEVENTY-TV/O LIVES
ceroniBE!”
Police of Calumet, Mich., Are
Seeking Man Who Caused
Terrible Caastrophe.
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 24.—
Police, private detectives and
citizens oi‘ Calumet to-day were
united in thoir efforts to find the
man who cried fire in the Italian
hall where last night 72 persons!
gathered about a giant Christmas !
tree were killed in a panic. The j
authorities feared the man would
he lynched- The dead were
members of striking eopper -min-1
ors’ families. It was understood I
that the man who caused the
panic was not ip sympathy with
the mine strike.
The real horror of the disaster did
not dawn upon the people of Calu- I
met until to-day when the city aw T oke ;
to the most cheerless Christmas in ,
its history. There was little observ- i
once of the day. Residents of all j
parts of the city joined in the general J
mourning for the scores of dead.
The sorrow of friends of the dead j
was increased to-day by the remem- !
brance that the panic was unneces
sary. There was no fire in or near I
the building in which the celebrants
were gathered.
Several hundred miners, their wives :
and children, were gathered about the !
big Christmas tree. The happy lit
tle folk were pressing eagerly toward
the stage in the front of the hall!
where Mrs. Annie Clemens, president
of the Women’s Auxiliary of the
mners’ organization, was superin
tending the distribution of presents.
Christmas joy reigned. It was the
happiest time in the lives of many
of the little ones. They had waited
weeks for this event.
Babies Trampled by Men.
Suddenly a door opened. A man
thrust in his head. Trumpeting
through his hands he uttered a wild
cry:
“Fire! ”
Instantly the hall was a scene of
wildest confusion. Mothers were torn
from their babies and saw them
trampled to death under the feet of
panic-stricken men. The cry of fire
was taken up by a hundred throats.
Mrs. Henry Isola was holding her
little boy and girl by the hand. The
boy was jerked away from her. He
escaped from the building. The moth
er and daughter were crushed to
death by the frenzied mob. Christian
Klarich and his two little daughters
were trampled to death. Mrs. Kla
rich escaped unhurt. There were
scores of such incidents.
The panic was over in less than a
minute. Rescurers rushed into the
building. They found bodies piled
to the top of the only regular exit,
a narrow stairway at the rear of the
hall. When order was restored there
were counted the bodies of 37 little
girls, 18 little boys, 15 men and 13
women.
Every undertaking establishment
was filled with bodies this morning
and bodies were given to the authori
ties, who arranged the dead in as or
derly a manner as possible to make
identification easier.
All through the night surviving
members of families that were nearly
wiped out went from place to place
seeking their dead. Friends sought
the bodies of those they had loved.
Sorrowing children who lost both
their parents were led from one im
provised morgue to another in an
effort to find parents, brothers and
sisters.
The Coroner’s assistants, checking
over the bodies, found that 54 fami
lies had suffered a loss of i ue or more
members.
When the cry of lire was raised
many of the men forgot everything
except their own anxiety to escape
from a possible death in the flames
they thought would soon reach the
celebration hall. They trampled upon
mothers who were trying vainly to
save their little ones. They crushed
the life out of infants and weaker
men.
Contrast to this action was shown
in the action of some of the cooler
headed miners. John Heikkenen and
Henry Manley were crushed to death
with several children they were try
ing to rescue from the mad rush.
One man was seen to stoop and pick
up a little girl. The madly pushing
crowd knocked him from his feet. He
and th® child were trampled to death.
A little •-,irl aged about five leaped
from a window to the street, two
stories below, and was practically un
hurt.
Many of the deaths in the panic
were due to suffocation under the
great pile of human bodies. This was
evidenced by the fact that many
bodies bore no mark of injury.
Saloon Is Blamed.
Tracing the man who caused the
panic, private detectives employed by
the mine owners to-day learned that
he came to the hall direct from a
saloon. Persons nearest the door when
he shouted fire said that the breath
blown into the room with the cry
smelled of alcohol.
A Coroner’s jury was impaneled
soon after midnight and an effort was
made to make a careful investigation
of the disaster.
M ISS C HA LETT A HALL,
a stenographer, who
gets a half-million dollars if
she weds in a year.
$500,000 Goes to Girl
If She Weds in a Year
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Chaletta Hall,
aged 19, and formerly a nigh school
girl in Man ton, Mich., is the heiress
to a half million dollars, provided,
however, “she marries a desirable
young man inside of a year.’’
She is a stenographer for Swift &
Co. Joseph Snyder, great-uncle of
the girl, dying recently in San Fran
cisco, left his fortune to his favor
ite grandniece, with the provision
concerning her marriage within
twelve months. Snyder’s domestic
troubles separated him from his wife
and he was divorced. With his own
marital failure in mind, he left his
fortune to the girl under the one con
dition.
LOPEZ STILL SAFE.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 25.—Ra
fael Lopez, the Mexican bandit, still
is safe within the workings of the
Utah-Apex Mine at Bingham. Utah.
This was the statement to-day of
Sheriff Smith, a noted Western gun
man, who is in charge of the hunt.
All entrances to the mine are
sealed up and the Sheriff and his
men are waiting to starve the slayer
of six men. According to the plan,
the mine will be unsealed New* Year’s
day and a party sent into the mine
to hunt the body of the fugitive who
for five w r eeks has eluded all pur
suers.
The impression prevails that Lopez
has had assistance from the outside.
He is known to have had a sweet
heart in the Bingham underworld and
she is suspected of having organized
a relief committee among friends of
her circle.
TO FIGHT SULLIVAN.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL., Dec. 25.—As
a result of the organization of the
'men
Secretary of Treasury McAdoo
Receives Many Messages of
Congratulation,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Secre
tary McAdoo and other officials of
the Administration are gratified at
the response from the country to the
enactment of the new Federal reserve
banking law.
Messages of congratulation from
banking interests in all parts of the
country have been pouring into Sec
retary McAdoo's office and there is a
steady stream of telegrams from
presidents of banks making applica
tion to become members of the new
system. This morning telegraphic
applications were still being received
and 231 institutions—national banks.
State banks, saving banks and tru3t
companies—from 37 different States
had applied for membership and for
the privilege of subscribing to the
stock. These banks extended from
Maine to California and from Min-,
nesota to Texas.
The 213 national banks that applied
for membership had a combined cap
ital and surplus of $181,580,420. Here
is the summary of the list, with num
ber of banka per State and capital
and surplus:
Alabama 4, $3,082,500; Arkansas 1,
$542,500; California 9, $5,963,500; Col
orado 6, $7,772,000; Delaware 1, $175,-
000; District of Columbia 1, $500,000;
Georgia 9, $9,675,000; Illinois 10, $34,-
064,000: Indiana 4, $1,010,000; Iowa 8,
$1,405,000; Kansas 7. $1,615,500; Ken
tucky 5, $780,200: Louisiana 3, $4,-
725,000.
Maine 2, $750,000; Maryland 14.
$12,895,720; Massachusetts 3, $17,450,-
000; Michigan 3, $1,450,000; Minne
sota 1, $40,000; Mississippi 1. $210,000;
Missouri 11, $19,025,000: Nebraska 3.
$472,000; New Hampshire 1, $250,000:
New York 5, $2,460,000: New Jersey 5,
$1,225,000; New Mexico 1, $225,000.
North Carolina 4, $1,730,000; North
Dakota 2, $180,000; Ohio 22, $35,818,-
000; Oklahoma 5, $339,000; Oregon 3,
$132,000; Pennsylvania 8, $71 353,000;
South Carolina 2, $725,000; Texas 7,
$6,407,500; Tennessee 6, $3,117,000;
Utah 7, $2,685,000; Washington 5, $3,-
961,000; Wisconsin 2, $730,000.
Eleven trust companies, of which
three are in Texas, one in Tennessee,
one in Virginia, one in Maryland, two
in Missouri, one in New York, one in
Illinois and one in the District of
Columbia, applied. Five State banks
applied, of which one each is in Cali
fornia, South Carolina, Texas, Mis
souri and Wisconsin. Two savings
banks made applies: i and both are
situated in California.
GREET PRESIDENT WILSON.
PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS., Dec. 25.
President Wilson arrived in this
quaint French hamlet on the shores
of the Gulf of Mexico at 6:30 o'clock
to-day and found “Merry Christmas-
emblazoned around him everywhere.
It was cold and damp and the skies
were leaden, but the crowd of natives
shouted at the President:
“Wait until to-morrow and well
show you some real gulf weather.”
The President and bis family left
their private car at 9 o’clock and went
immediately to the “Winter White
House,” one mile up the beach, chris
tened “Beaulieu.” The home is owned
by Miss M. A. Herndon, who will
have charge of it during the Presi
dent's stay here.
Joe Murphy, the President's secret
service man, who was sent to Pass
Christian in advance, brought word
to the Presidential party of the quaint
Christmas celebration that awaited
them here. He said they observed
Christmas with fireworks instead of
holly and mistletoe, and have many
delightful French traditions for the
entire Yuletide. The President’s
cheery “Good morning” and “Merry
Christmas” found responsive echoes
in the cheers that went up on his ar
rival.
Representative Harrison, of Missis
sippi, who accompanied the Presiden
tial party from Washington, probably
will remain in Pass Christian
throughout the Christmas season. He
will see to it that the President is not
bothered with any business or poli
ticians of any kind until he is entirely
willing to see them.
SECOND ARREST.
Following close on the arrest and con
fession of James Thomas Turner, mes
senger for the Southern Express Com-
Goes to Pass Christian, Miss., for
the Holidays—Southerners
Give Him Greeting.
President Woodrow Wilson was in
Atlanta late Wednesday afternoon.
He came in at 4:55 in a special train
of four cars, carrying his private
physician, Dr. Cary Grayson, Mrs.
Wilson and Misses Eleanor and Mar
garet, and sundry secret service men,
newspaper correspondents and serv
ants. He left at 5:20 en route to the
Gulf ('oast, where he will try to get
some rest, after his strenuous work
on the currency bill.
in the 25 minutes the President was
here he walked up and down the plat
form ten times, pointed twice, once
north and once south; smiled any
where from 10 to 20 limes, bowed
twice, jerked his cap down over his
eyes once, and chatted volubly at all
times—with Dr. Grayson and the se
cret service men who hemmed him
in like a hedge fence.
His arrival w r as attended by no
ceremony, and his departure was the
same, unless the spectacle of police
men clinging to the steps of the train
could be called something in the na
ture of a ceremony. Some thought it
might be a ceremony; others couldn’t
figure out just what it was.
Poisoner of 4 Gets
4 Life Sentences
MERIDIAN, TEXAS, Dec. 24.—Four
1 fe imprisonment sentences were pro-
rounced on Mrs. Eilen Walker Ether
idge. convicted of poisoning her four
(epchildren.
CAN SELL TO POST.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Atlanta
merchants who want an opportunity
to bid on subsistence supplies for
Fort McPherson are not to be de
prived of that privilege. Major Gen
eral Aleshire, chief quartermaster
general of the army, to-day wrote
Congressman William Schley How
ard to this effect. Mr. Howard re
cently protested to the War Depart
ment against an order issued by the
Department of the East, which was
construed to mean that the Fort
McPherson supplies must be pur
chased from New York. General
Aleshire says the War Department
has no intention of taking steps in
imical to local merchants if the prices
are satisfactory and that Circular 31
has been misunderstood.
ORIENTAL WEDDiNG.
KENOSHA, WIS., Dec. 24— Cus
toms of the Far East were invoked
at the marriage in Balguam, India, of
Miss Eva Thelien, Kenosha, to Wen
dell Kumlien, Appleton, Wis.
Miss Thelien traveled more than
three-fourths around the tvorld to
meet her fiance at Bombay, whence
they traveled on the back of an ele
phant overland to Balguam, on the
frontier.
SWAINS ARE BALKED.
POUGHKEEPSIE. N, Y., Dec. 24.—
The scores of young “blades” who
have been saving their coupons all
year intending to convert them into
chafing dishes for girl friends at Vas-
sar College will have had their paias
for nothing, as that dish has been
put on the “forbidden” list.
LONG-DISTANCE RIDE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The record
long distance ride in the New York
subway has been established by David
Shapiro, who traveled on the cars six
days and nights. The boy was afraid
to go home because he had stolen his
mother’s gold watch and chain.
STORM CLAIMS LIVES.
CUXHAVEN, GERMANY, Dec. 24 -
Heavy loss of life has accompanied the
terrific storm which has prevailed over
the North Sea for forty-eight hours.
The gale wrought deadly havoc
among the fishing fleet on the banks off
the mouth of the Elbe.
At least fifty-two fishermen perished.
More than forty bodies were washed
ashore to-day.
ZELAYA SAILS FROM U. S.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—General
Jose Santos Zelaya, former President
of Nicaragua, who was arrested here
last month charged with murder, but
subsequently released, sailed for
France to-day.
Wilson-Bryan League here. Senators
John W. Kern, of Indiana, and Robert
L. Owen, of Oklahoma, will be
brought to Illinois to open the fight
planned against Roger C. Sullivan,
candidate for nomination for United
States Senator, by his foes in the
Democratic party.
The two Senators will be invited to
speak at a banquet to be given in
Springfield probably on Washington’s
Birthday.
CONVICTS ARE FREED.
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 25.—Thirty-sev-
n Alabama State convicts were given
heir liberty by Governor O’Neal to-day.
eventeen of the number were convicted
f murder either in the first or second
egree and three were serving life sen-
enees.
Two of the prisoners freed were con-
icted in Mobile, four in Montgumerv,
our in Birmingham and others in dif-
erent sections of the State
pany a second man has been taken into
custody and other arrests are expected
.in connection with the systematic theft
of express articles from the Southern
i Express Company during the past year,
j The second man arrested was D. J.
(Alexander, a resident in Mills street, a
railway employee.
Alexander was taken before United
States Commissioner Walter H. Col
quitt and held tinder a bond of $1,000.
He denied any knowledge of the rob
beries.
PEPPER FOR PRIEST.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Dec 25.— En
tering the confessional of the Holy
Cross Church under the guise of desir
ing to make a confession, a woman at
tacked the Rev. Henry Jajeskai and
threw a handful of red pepper in his
eyes. Anne Bradek was later ar
rested.
She had barricaded the house and was
captured after a struggle. Father
Jajeskai was alone when the woman
rushed in and asked that he hear her
confession.
BARN IS BURNED.
DAHLONEGA, Dec. 25.—The barn on
Colonel R. H. Baker’s farm near Dah-
lonega burned this morning and Colonel
Baker and G. W. Burns lost quantities
of fodder and hay and one buggy.
It is thought a negro who had a dif
ficulty with one of the Burns boys
started the fire. Dogs followed a trail
to his house.
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