This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg//2FB.2ACI/2475 Message Board Post: For those of you who have never read an unbiased account : The News (Frederick, Maryland) > 1913 > December > 29 Calumet Buries Panic Victims About 15, 000 Persons Marched in Funeral Procession Services in six Churches. Calumet, Mich. Dec 29 Inexpressibly saddened, Calumet yesterday , buried fifty nine of the forms of tots, children men and women , who on Christmas eve found death in the panic ridden Italian Hall building during the progress of a Christmas tree entertainment for the little ones.The people of the entire copper country and many from outside points, paid tribute to the dead.All factions were united for the time being by the common sorrow and bereavement, and the lifeless forms were laid at rest as they gathered about the long rows of yawning graves as the caskets were lowered into the earth.Funeral services were held in six churches and were followed by a funeral procession mad up of the smaller processions from each of the churches. It was more than an hour and a half before the end of the cortege reached the cemetery gate. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons marched. The interments were in Lakeview cemetery.Here the dead were buried, most of them in trenches, twenty five on the! Catholic side and the remainder on the Protestant. Following the interment and brief services at the gravesides, conducted by the priest and ministers of churches, a ;public service of eulogy was conducted at a stand near the entrance to the cemetery.All morning long the gruesome death wagon carried the containing the bodies from the homes of the bereaved families to the churches. At some of these homes the parents of the child victims attempted to keep their dead with them a little longer. In one home , a young mother, crazed with grief over the loss of three little ones, threw herself across the casket of her little daughter and fought to prevent the child from being taken from the house.The funeral procession, headed by fourteen hearses, three death wagons and one automobile truck , the latter carrying three caskets, and each of the other vehicles. One marched to the strains of a dirge played by a band of Finnish miners from Mohawk. Immediately behind the hearses marche! d the striking miners, bearing the caskets of all but three or four of the children. The miners carrying the caskets , formed in two long lines, four men to each body.As the children were lowered into the long trenches, many of the usually quiet Finnish women burst into wild wailing. Placed on top of each casket was a sprig of tamarack and there was a great profusion of flowers.Sheriff James Cruse reports that he has been unable to solve to his satisfaction , the sudden leaving of the district by C. H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners. The sheriff is not convinced that Moyer was forced to leave and says it was not known that he had left the Scott hotel or where he had gone until the riot siren sounded.He does not know who ordered the riot call but is sifting the matter thoroughly. There was no trouble whatever at the Scott hotel, he says . The sheriff denied that he had refused protection to Moyer and declared the for the past three weeks he had accorded him every protectionThere have been no requests by the Miner's Federat! ion for the arrest of those persons alleged to have taken part in the kidnapping of the labor leader.