73 killed when someone falsely calls out ‘fire!’ in crowded Michigan hall 100 years ago today (12/24/1913)

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Video: 'Italian Hall Disaster of 1913'

(Wednesday, December 24, 1913; Christmas Eve) — 73 people, most of them children, died today in a crush of panic after someone falsely called out “fire!” during a Christmas party for striking miners and their families at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan.