🔗:https://l.mlive.com/yv3za4 On Christmas Eve 1913, tragedy struck Michigan’s Copper Country in what remains one of the state’s deadliest disasters.73 people were killed, 59 of them children after someone falsely shouted "Fire!" The disaster unfolded amid a bitter labor strike. Witnesses later claimed the false alarm came from an anti-union agitator, but no one was ever charged. Each year, Calumet honors the victims by lighting 73 luminaries in the park where the Italian Hall once stood. (Photo