CALUMET, MI (AP)-- There's a plan to erect a monument in Houghton County to remember the 73 people who died more than a century ago when someone yelled "fire" at a Christmas party for families of striking miners.
The monument at Italian Hall Memorial Park in Calumet would have the names of the victims. Many were children.
Committee member Mike Lahti says that the monument could be made of granite or glass. He says it will be a place where people "can just sit and contemplate" what happened in 1913.
The victims were crushed or suffocated when they tried to get away from the second floor of the Italian Hall.
