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Show I. Ml. W. MEIERS ATTAGKOFFICERS IFIVE KILLED IN PITCHED BATTLE WHEN WORKERS ATTEMPT TO MAKE LANDING. Had Taken Boat at Seattle With Intention In-tention of Landing at Everett, But Citizens Objected and Fu- rious Fight Followed. Everett, Wash. At least five men were killed and twenty or thirty others oth-ers were wounded Sunday in a pitched battle at the Everett city wharf between be-tween 250 members of the Industrial' Workers of the World, who came here from Seattle on the steamer Verona, and a posse of 150 citizens headed by Sheriff Don McRae. Sheriff McRae was among the seriously wounded. The number of casualties aboard the Verona is not known. After the shooting, shoot-ing, in which about 1,000 shots were exchanged,, the Verona turned around and started back to Seattle. Many men were seen to fall on the deck of the steamer, and others, panic-stricken, jumped overboard. Some were taken from the water, but others "disappeared "dis-appeared and it is believed they were drowned. The Verona reached Everett shortly before 2 o'clock. The coming of the party of invaders had been announced in messages sent to Everett from Seattle headquarters. A call to Industrial Indus-trial Workers to the World members from all over the state had been issued is-sued earlier in the week and the citizens citi-zens of Everett at a meeting held Sat urday night planned to meet the invaders in-vaders and deny them privilege of landing. The trouble between the Industrial Workers of the World and the authorities author-ities at Everett has been on for several sev-eral months and was the outgrowth of a strike of shingle weavers here. After several minor outbreaks of violence vio-lence during the strike, Sheriff McRae organized the citizens' committee and expelled all members of the Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World from Everett. Ev-erett. On several occasions small parties of men have attempted to enter Everett, Ev-erett, but have been turned back by the sheriff. |