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Show ?1 Killing of American Legion Boys 1 By I.W.W. Radicals StirsWrath I of People of Pacific Northwest I GRIM TASK BEFORE CENTRALIA AFTER DAY'SRIOTINC Citizens Burying Dead, Ascertaining Causes of Clash With I. W. W. During Armistice Day 5- Parade in Which Three Members of American Legion Were Killed and Several Others Seri-i Seri-i ously Wounded, and Finding Men Guilty of I Starting Trouble and Shooting Down Marchers j CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 2. Nineteen alleged Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World were in jail here at 8 o'clock today. The men were rounded up yesterday and last night after the firing on the Armistice day parade. Company F, Third regiment, national guard of Washington, Washing-ton, which arrived here early today from Tacoma, was not I patrolling the streets today. The guardsmen were billeted in the chamber of commerce rooms. Later the national guardsmen went on patrol duty in many ; parts of the city. At 8:30 orclock they were posted on the ; main streets and were guarding all the roads leading into Centralia. I CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 11 (By the Associated Press.) The grim task f of buryinp her dead, ascertaining the cause of the clash in w hich they were killed and finding the guilty ones oc-t oc-t cupled Centralia today. Persons said to bo Industrial Work-I Work-I era of the World fired on an Arm-I Arm-I istice dav parade here yesterday, ki 11-- 11-- log one member of the American ' Legion outright and rounding two ; cthera so thrtt ;hf. died ?oon alter; a il lourth legion member sutfered a fatal vound in grappling with one of those it accused of the firing Toda the id body of this man, Brltl Smith, sec-t. sec-t. retary of the local Industrial Workers L branch, is hanging from a bridge near I here, from which Smith was thrown I by h mob last night. Three separate in r-stigations are " undtr way. Two agents of the federal Idepartment of justice arrived early to Iday from Seattle to inquire into the affair. I A representative of Governor Hart L ordered here hurriedh from lOlympia li-t ni-ht for an inquiry and, I Upon his preliminary report today, the' I Pernor is expected to make -.ome j announcement of steps conterupla tei loy stale officers Former Service Men Investigate. A committee of former service men I Md others al.-o K making an lnv Ml I gallon and on- member of this an-' 'hounced last nipht it already had ob 1 I telned eid.Qc. unheal ui y i sterday's I clash had been planned months ago I j I by the radicals 1W Herman All.-n. an atiornev, who j r ini3 announcem. nt, said .lame, Lamb, I I of twenty alleged members of the I I industrial Workers taken into rustody ! lytsterdav, had made a staiement ells-IQClosinK ells-IQClosinK the premediaiated natun of f the firing He aleo declared Mf-tram- I lound In the pockeu of Drill Smith I I save similar indications I Captain David Livingston, one of j ine men named in the alleged confes-M-on by Lamb, le,l i b.- Armistice civ1 rtf f1 terda lb- was not . " I ih. ,iDRSlun served in France uithl 'n 161st infantry. William scales a Eu"' ,h0 oluer' tnarrhmg be-I be-I ' j.rlmm when tin- latter was shot. P i inL m n nruu"d h;nr' bfr it 'in Ifvl, !" a f';'mP'iRn conducted by ,i - ntralia citlz, ni agalnsl the 1. W. W V vi Radical In Jail. J Nineteen alleged radicals were in - I vlTf ',xiay v tU" """ l';" xl, ' havin" ,J"rn rM.d v a mob' r Tho rf"SU" of th" lofting s. M. rdav bniiHi'W1 "r'P'Mj 0111 lhr' fro' ol the, furnl, 3nd m;uie a bonfire of Ih1 L tho anl )ai"'rs f""IHl Among I ,:D 111 J-'il was Lln.er Smith. Cen-JJlia Cen-JJlia attorney lor ),, i w w. Smith GSvumresl;d in hia ffK l'-v W H and ,)r'na',al "f h high school. Paced 1' UmK ,h Jalled radicals , I Jhe ca -V,K klV' 'h"L HliGi i Cldler n, .,l,"'r socrelarV Former T ithrrLv d on d'n outside the jail A the ulk.-d confession, was taken I 9 . to the Chehalis jail last night. Alleged Confession. One of the men arrested yesterday and last night in the sweeping search for L W. W.'s following the attack, was said to have confessed plans were made months ago to "get" Warren Grimm and Arthur McElfresh, two of those killed, and William S. Schales and Captain David Livingston. The four had been active In suppressing sup-pressing radical activities in this community. com-munity. Rifle Fire Sv;epc Ranks. Without warning, bursts of rifle fire swept the ranks of marching overseas eterans as they paraded past I. W W headquarters. From that building and tho roof of a building across the street bullets came Persons in the crowds that lined the street to honor the returned heroes also pulled weapons and began firing. Grimm, leading a company of men, dropped mortally wounded. McElfresh. McEl-fresh. marching in the ranks, was killed instantly. Then Casagranda died later from his wounds. John Earl Watt, George Stevens, Jacob Phltsler, Christ Coleman and E. Eubanks also fell wounded, th'e Ural named probably fatally. Stevene wafl shot when he at t.-nipted to disarm an I. W. W. standing on the street. Dale Hubbard Dies. The fourth death of a parader was added when Dale Hubbard, recently re turned overseas man. gathered a small band and started after the 1. W secretary Hubbard and the Fugitive grappled after a chase in which Smith 1 tired repeatedly at his pursuers. As they clinched Hubbard received four wounds in the body. rmther pursuer overpowered Smith and he was taken to jail, later to be recoved and hanged alter citizens learned that four of tb loriner sol 1 diera had died. An attempt to lynch Smith was made before he was lodged in jail "it fellows cant hang me," he said. "I was sent to do niv duty and I did It " Smith was tossed from a bridge over! the Chehalis river after a rope was tied about his neck and a volley of j bullets sent into his body. The lynching lynch-ing party worked silently and in dark aess while taking him from jail. Littlo was known of Smiih He came here a short time ago. American Legion Commander. Grimm was commander of the local post of the American Legion. He re-1 turued recently from Siberia and had been practicing law with his brother.! During his college das at the UniVer-ulty UniVer-ulty of Washington, he acquired fame j as an athlete. He was 31 years old; and is survived by a wife and baby daughter. McElfresh was 24 years old. He re-j turned from France last May after sixteen months overseas. KubtMCd 3erv?d with rne 20th engineers en-gineers In France. He was married onlv two months ago. CENTRALIA, Wash. Nov. 1 Three members of the American Le i glon are dead, two other former service serv-ice men are in a precarious condition and several others were wounded w hen persons, said to be members of the Industrial In-dustrial Workers of the World fired on an Armistice Day parade here this afternoon. Another man, said to have been one of those who fired on the marchers, is believed to have been lynched, but confirmation was lacking At least eight supposed Industrial Workers of the World are in the local Jail, guarded from a mob of several hundred former comrades of the men' shot down today. The dead: Arthur McElfresh. Centralia Den Casagranda. Centralia. Warren Grimm, Centralia. The wounded include: Dale Hubbard, Centralia, (dying). John Earl Watt, Chehalis, not expected ex-pected to live. j The shooting began when the patadel drew abreast of the Industrial Workers oi me voriu nan nere. according to witnesses, the bullets going over the heads of the crowds watching the parade. pa-rade. On lookers say shots came from every direction and that snipers in the upper windows of the I. W, W. headquarters building fired into the line. McElfresh was killed instantly. Grimm, formerly a lieutenant, was I leading a platoon in the parade and fell at the second brst of fire, mor-talh mor-talh wounded. Stevens attempud to disarm an alleged al-leged I W. W. and was shot in the struggle which ensued Hubbard sustained sus-tained his wound in pursuing a sup-! posed I. W. W who fired as he ran I from the group of men headed by ! Hubbard i Ii was this man. according to re-i re-i ports, who was hanged by a mob to-' to-' night. I Casagranda was in the ranks and a rifle bullet struck him In the body j "They got me this time," he said asi he doubled up and fell in the street The crowd, uniformed and un uni formed, started to chase the reds and, Hubbard was shot while chasing one of the leaders. Gathering up persons suspected of affiliation with the radical order some i former service men took them to jail, while others of the marchers tore out the front of the building where the i W. W. headquarters were located, seized seiz-ed and burned a quantity of radical lit erature and all the furniture, and distributed dis-tributed among themselves and Cen 1 tralla citizens the arms and ammunl-; j lion stored in the headquarters Meanwhile a crowd was gathering; 'about the jail. Former service men. some of them armed with the seized; 'weapons and others unarmed patrolled I the ' round near the Jail to prevent fur- ther violent e. According to ex-service men who said they were present. Hubbard's party caught the man they were chasing, chas-ing, after he hud fired at them several times, on the banks of the Skookum-chuch Skookum-chuch river, a small stream which iuns through the town. Hubbard and the ; man grappled, 'hey said, and the sup-posed sup-posed I W w fired directl Into Hubbard's Hub-bard's body George Stevens, another jof the crowd chasing the gunman, kicked the pistol from the L. W. W.'s hands A rope then was placed about the man's neck, thrown over the cross-1 (arm of a telephone pole and he was hoisted into the air The police p. j Buaded the crowd to let the man down before he was dead and he was taken ! to jail. T. C. Rogers, mayor of Centralia, A. C Hughes, chief of police here, and other citizens addressed the crowd In front of the jail tonight asking the citizens not to attempt to lynch the prisoner. Early tonight a meeting to discuss the siUiation -.?hh held at a ?oeal ?lub ,.nd immediately afterward the city's electric lights failed, In the darkness one man was removed from the Jul I The best available account said thei man was placed In an automobile, i whic h H as waiting in readiness, flank I ted by six other cars filled with men and hurried into a wood near the town I .This man, reports said later, was hanged to o bridge It generally was I believed tonight that the lynching had I I taken place. Rumors of additional violence here were current late tonight More than' one citizen declared; "There will no' I be any I. . W.a left in the jail by ; morning." Governor Hart has ordered one company of the state guard, uum-I uum-I bering about 7T nu n, here from Taco-ma. Taco-ma. PORTLAND Ore., Nov. 11 Peine hero tonight raided headquarters of the Household Workers' Soldiers' and Sailors' club and look sixty men inlo: CUStod) The police acted following a report that those in the club were meeting lo protest against "persecution" "persecu-tion" of the I. w. W. at Centralia, Wash The men were taken to the police station for investigation. A quantity of radical literature was found in the club rooms by the police I SEATTLE. Wash , Nov. 11 Ac, ord ,ing to reports telephoned here tonight. tho Centralia mob look the cameras j from all newspaper correspondents jand photographers. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. If A preliminary pre-liminary cmfei em id Republican I leaders has been called for tomorrow i in thlse city to begin a campaign to bring the national Republican convention conven-tion of 1920 to San Francisco, national I committeeman William H. Crocker an 1 nouueed today. CENTRALIA, Wash Nov 11. Dale Hubbard, who was shot in the breast, was operated on late tonight and doctors doc-tors said ho had a fiehting chance for his life Lieutenant Warren 0 Grimm Who was kllbd had been elected last. Thursday night commander of ('.rant Hodge post, American Legion, here. |