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The Italian Hall tragedy, 1913: A hundred years of remediated memories.




TekijätAnne Heimo

ToimittajaBarbara Törnqvist-Plewa & Tea Sindbæk Andersen

KustannuspaikkaLeiden, Boston

Julkaisuvuosi2017

Kokoomateoksen nimiThe Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural mediation and reception

Sarjan nimiEuropean Studies, an interdiscpilinary series in European culture, history and politics

Vuosikerta34

Aloitussivu240

Lopetussivu267

Sivujen määrä28

ISBN978-90-04-35234-6

eISBN978-90-04-35235-3

ISSN1568-1858

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1163/9789004352353_012

Verkko-osoitehttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789004352353s012

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/27808252


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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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