CALUMET'S DEAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15500, 6 January 1914, Page 9

CALUMET'S DEAD.

BURYING THE BODIES. Calumet, December 28, Calum.;t buried its dead to-day. There was a terrible funeral procession of 59 coffins, of which 44 were the pitifully small coffins of children. They were the victims of the stampede in Italian Hall on Christmas Eve. The coffins were borne on the shoulders of men of the Western federation of Miners, who are on strike. The roads were deep in mud, and the bearers stumbled and slipped under their burdens. Relays of men marched by the coffins and relieved the bearers from" time to time. Thousands lined the streets. Men were in tears and women sobbed convulsively. The funeral procession was led by 50 English mineis. most of whom came from Cornwall, chanting hymns. The bodies were placed in six large graves dug by unionists. Th e Chicago Federation of i Labour ha-i made an appeal to Congress to j investigate the conditions of work in the j Michigan copper country. The federation . has also forwarded a resolution charging ! the mine-owners and their agents with the I responsibility of the tragedv. which cost 72 lives. "