 However, in 1913, Red Jacket suffered from the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914, and the population began to decline.In the same year, the town was the site of the Italian Hall Disaster.Striking miners and their families were gathered on Christmas Eve for a party in Italian Hall, when the cry of "fire" precipitated a stampede that crushed or suffocated seventy-three victims, the majority of them children.