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vable catastrophe, sts dx) ag. by the side of its dead, 8. (most of whom were _hild of the frightful | ric r ghtin : C2 Ee A hE a w mi! This panic followed a false alarm: : ery of fire during the progress of a {ree entertainment ar- ranged for families of the copper strikers To-day Calumet ses their neighbors, their brothers, their sisters 'and their little children staggering under an almost unbearable burden of 'dis- tress and grief. The authorities have so far been unable to trace a man who is said 40 have gone up the stairs of the Italian hall and raised the ory of fire, which is' supposed to have started the panic which led to the fearful crush in the stairway and caused the death of the nearly four soore men, women and children. There seems to be little hope he will 'be apprehended. The other theory that the cry of fire origi- nated within the hall was substan- tiated on Thursday by Matt Bart, a striker, who lost. his son in the dis- aster. He declared the éry came from a group of men and women doward the front of the hall. A fourteen-year-old girl who died on Thursday morning brought the official list of dead up to 73. All bave now been identified, Five in- jured are in the hospitals, all of whom, it is said, will live. Thres little girls in the "Calumet and Hee- 1a hospitals were able on Thursday to be up and 'about, and they romped around the cits tree sot. up for the patients unaware of the fate which had overtaken some of their brothers and sisters and the father of one of them. A boy of seven or eight years of age who was taken to one of the morgues showed signs, of life soon alter, but no xestoratives and no physician were immediately avail- , gable and death ensued. One con- ple entered thetown hall where all he bodies had been gathered to look for their missing child, Their pefisied Li er i piled on top of each of whe reached the entrance of the b build: Many tales of the Sotceness of ithe crush during the height of the | crush during the height the panic were told. One man was | seen to. stoop to ple his ils. daughter, only to be ph ed on and forced to trample her beneath him, A woman who ran to the aid of three small boys was orushed to death 'with them, When the 'rush began a woman went to the piano and began play. io ing. Another woman stood in centre of the stage, on. which the Christmas tree had: been erected, and started to sing. Their efforts | to quell the panic were futile, as they were not heard above the tu- mult. Matti Kotzjarvi, wife and two daughters, were all kitled. Chris- tian Klarich and his two daughters were crushed to death, but Mrs. Klarich managed to escape. A large number of families lost two or niore children, More than fifty |™ of the®dead were under ten years |track, of age. Mrs. A. Niemela, one of the vic- times, - was suffocated while stand- ing up, John Burrill, a fireman, who witnessed her death, took a six-months-old infant from her arms and carried it to safety. Leonard |soe Wilman, another fireman, pushed his way into the stairway and took out a crying boy of six uninjured. Near him his mother and sister lay dead. An eleven-year-old boy res- the people of|ing. i Ronit 8 Lehr SRT Se NL Sh bo Sg Fi ons, 160; hove, track, and Biba 14 1-40) -- T be to 1" 1-30, iE = and Baled ys 1 at on feds $1 a Ww ime: Ines. Oran, Winnipeg, Deo. Rorthern, No. Non orn; d6 i901 No. 8 rE hE 76 190; No. 4 re rejeotad ode; @ tu, Fo. i mutty; 76 1-20 i Tod Wi {utes ! Prd HH cued: his brother of nine by carry- a! ing him down a ladder, Another child, thrown out of a window by a frantio father, was caught in the arms of an onlookes. "Another father killed his boy hy falling on ba him, .and he, too, perished, DISTRICT OFFICER'S WORK = Sanitary. Suryeys Twenty-eight A doapatch from Toronto 'says: Thiviv-five 'thousand miles of 'tra-|P9 'wel' in' 12 months' is 'the modest re- cord of Dr. R. BE. Wodshouse, dis- $riot officer. of health for the great area that makes up Northern On- gario. - Dr. ~Wodehouse's report to the Provincial Board of Health for the year contains sbriking ' testi- mony to the efficient work the new: rlliirio offisers are doing dn reser: g general Supervision over the bio! health: - The térritory 'em' raced ip disiies even, over whic! 8, em Ign Thun: Have Been Com pleted "for Municipalities official visits to various centres of population. ter-houses in fhe district. made them comply with the strict sani- tary provisions of the law, and se. cured. the removal. of jnasniiazy, buildings at. several. points. One. set .of Open sewers were, changed, While: three. and three railways. ab five - divisional points have gewage treatment Plants sayy he "Sport Sa i der k Bab, Reo: "Rainy River and}: The 3 owbela? province. 552 miles ab an ox; or half the area of the} "The district offi' 40; eocon: Winker" eh ie £ Lor 82.10, i 0; He visited all slaugh- | Homans, Hoo, ordered to instal {ii per | per cent. over {ois and the increase , $8.50 to 8478, on