Hideous Pandemonium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 99, 29 December 1913, Page 5

Hideous Pandemonium.

THE CALUMET DISASTER. A STAIRWAY OF DEATH. [By Electric. Telegraph—Copyright] [United" Press Ahbooiat t oh J New York, December 26. The hall in Calumet in which the stampede occurred was conferee! to he well provided with emergency exits, the staircases being eight feet wide. Corpses were piled on the clii.'f staircase five deep. They were identified with difficulty. • Mothers, mistaking the bodies, carried away several children who were not theirs. During the panic a miner snatched up his five-years old daughter, but lie was oyerturmxl at the entrance and the child beneath him was crushed to deatli. The average age of the victims was nine years. Several nationalities were represented in the audience, and the babel of tongues in the wild-beast-liko rush made a hideous pandemonium. • . . . PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION REFUSED MINERS' BITTER HOSTILITY. New York, December 27. As a result of a decision not to accept subscriptions for the assistance of the families who are suffering from the results of the disaster in the hall, citizens of Calumet waited on Movers, president of. the Western Federation of Miners. He upheld the decision, declaring that subscriptions arc not wanted. The citizens thereupon forcibly placed Moyers on an out-going train and deported him from the Vity. Citizens.who have fought the strike since July induced the State authorities to sendi troops to suppress disorders, hence the bitterness at Calumet. Relatives of the dead children refused £IO,OOO, public subscriptions to'the disaster fund, on the ground that all the bereaved people are members of the Western Federation of Miners, whose funds are ample to provide for such cases, but the real reason for the refusal is the bitter hostility prevailing between the citizens and the Laborites since the strike broke out. ■., i; j