Funeral parade

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B>These 2 photos, taken in Red Jacket (Calumet), document the funeral parade of Alois Tijan and Steve Putrich, strikers who were murdered at their boarding home in Seeberville, near Painsedale.</B></div> <div> <B>On August 14, 1913, after a minor trespassing incident, tempers between the company-hired Waddell men and the strikers ended in a shoot-out, with Tijan dying on the scene and Putrich the next day. </B></div> <div> <B>Their deaths sparked an outcry from the union and the community, and resulted in a large funeral procession through the Copper Country.</B></div> <div> <B>The first photo shows the procession turning off of Fifth Street and down Oak.  The second image shows interesting details, noted in Thurner pp 75-76;</B></div> <div> <B>"The Finnish Humu band lead the procession to Lake View Cemetary...men carried boughs and wreaths of evergreen, women and girls bouquets of wild flowers...Following a Croatian custom when death prevented fulfillment of marriage plans, ten girls dressed in white, with flowing veils, and a young woman attired as a bride, followed the white hearse of Tijan."</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Copper Country Reflections</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copper Country Reflections"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id237.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corner 6th and Elm"><U><B><IMG SRC="0420e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id239.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mohawk parade"><U><B><IMG SRC="0410e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>       </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><A HREF="id225.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Western Federation of Miners"><U><B><IMG SRC="0440e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Click arrows to go through series.  Use the UP arrow to go back to WFM main page.</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> Funeral parade</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5a922520.jpg" border=0 width="546" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5d820520.jpg" border=0 width="544" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>