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The Italian Hall tragedy, 1913: A hundred years of remediated memories.
Authors: Anne Heimo
Editors: Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa & Tea Sindbæk Andersen
Publishing place: Leiden, Boston
Publication year: 2017
Book title : The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural mediation and reception
Series title: European Studies, an interdiscpilinary series in European culture, history and politics
Volume: 34
First page : 240
Last page: 267
Number of pages: 28
ISBN: 978-90-04-35234-6
eISBN: 978-90-04-35235-3
ISSN: 1568-1858
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004352353_012
Web address : http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789004352353s012
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/27808252
The Italian Hall tragedy,
1913: A hundred years of remediated memories
On Christmas Eve
1913 seventy-three people were crushed to death during the 1913–1914 Copper
Strike in the small township of Calumet on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper
Michigan. On Christmas Eve the local Women's Auxiliary of the Western
Federation of Miners (WFM) had arranged a party for the strikers’ families at
the local Italian hall. At some point in the evening someone was heard to shout
“fire” and as people rushed to get out of the building they were hauled down
the stairs and were crushed to death. Sixty-three of the victims were children.
There was no fire. Later on
this tragic event became to be known as “The Italian hall tragedy”, “The Italian
Hall Disaster” or the “1913 Massacre” and it continues to be the one most haunting
event in the history of the Copper Country.
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