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NOON EDITION NOON EDITION THE DAY BO t An Adless Dcdly Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, gagaa Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. C Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL 3, NO. 75 Chicago, Friday, Dec. 26, 1913 ONE CENT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOI IF CHILDREN AT CALUMET? Over Seventy Lives Lost at Miners9 Christmas Celebra tion When Some Dastard Yelled "Fire" Stories Invented for Press to Save Opera tors From Criticism, Calumet, Mich., Dec. 26. If suffi cient coffins can be brought here to day, the seventy-three victims of the panic Christmas eve in Italian Hall, at Red Jacket, which was caused by some one yelling "Fire," will be buried. But the ugly question: "Who was responsible for that false alarm?" will not be so easily disposed of. It was heard in whispers yester day while the bereaved stood outside of the hall, black despair in their hearts, .and demanded some child, some woman or some man from the row of bodies inside. By night the whisper was a sullen muttering, as the strikers repeated to each other: "We don't want help from the citizens or from the mine owners; we took care of our own when they were living; we can take care of our dead, now." Every effort is being made to sup press the question. New stories are being invented to account for the panic. One of them is that a child set his cap on fire with some Christ mas fireworks, and the sight of the trifling blaze as his father carried him from the hall caused the excite ment that resulted in death. But Mrs. Caesar, 431 Kearsarge street, positively declares she saw the man who pushed his "head in the door of the main hallway and holler ed "Fire." She declares she grabbed him by the shoulders and tried to hold him, realizing what would hap- iSMtfiiHiaaiiiaflflMiMMHiiifiiHiiilti '' - - 'iTrrwrijn MIMrti