White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-11-10
SIX PEOPLE KILLED
AT EVERETT, SUNDAY
/. w. w. AGITAToRs COME BY
RoATLoAD FROM SEATTLE
AND OPEN FIRE.
WOUNDED LIST OVER FIFTY
Pitched Battle Follows Refusal to
Permit Observation-Disclosures Ar
rests-Women In lt-Sherlff
and Deputies Wounded.

and Deputies Wounded.
Everett, Wash, Nov. 6.-Six mel
are dead and so suffering from bull
let wounds as the result of battle
here Sunday afternoon, when 25(
members of the Industrial Workers
of the World sought to land from
the steamer Verona: which had car
ried them from Seattle.
The boat was met by Sheriff Nc
Rea of Snohomish county, who, with
posse, forbade the men to land. A
shot fired from the Verona, accord
ing to the boats officers, was fol
lowed Immediately by rifing from
both sides. The steamer fastened
back to Seattle with the dead and
wounded. The Seattle police took
the dead to the morgue, the wounded
to the city hospital, and the un,
wounded to the city Jail.
The Dead.
In Everett citizens posse
G. O.. Curtis, formerly lieutenant
Company /, Second infantry, Wash:
ington national guard.
Members Of the l. W. w., who were
on the Verona aud were brought to
Seattle
Hugo Gerlot age "a, Milwaukee,
Wis, seaman.
John Looney. age 26, Aver juno
ton, Mass, laborer.
Harry Pierce, age %, Seattle, la
borer.
Gus Johnson, laborer.
Felix Baron, laborer, age %.
Three Women Arrested.
Including the wounded there are
294 men and three women under ar
rest at Seattle. Forty-one men were
failed to reach Everett The womer
in jail are Mrs. Hubbard Mailer, Miss
Edith Frenette and Mrs. H. Peters.
The coming of the Industrial Work
ers of the World invaders had beer
previously announced in messages
sent to Everett from Seattle head
quarters. A call to l. w. w. mem
bers from all over the state had been
issued earlier in the week and the
citizens of Everett at meeting held
Saturday night planned to meet the
invaders and deny them privileges OF
landing.
When the Verona reached the city
aaharf SksIS-,SMcR ea, who was back
ed by a posse "Goff'sSssputy sheriffs ane
citizens, stepped forward and inform
ed the men on the boat that they
would not be permitted to land. One
of the men, evidently spokesman fol
the party, began arguing with the
sheriff and then made speech.
Apparently as a signal the mar
dropped his hand and armed men OF
the steamer opened fire on the posse
assembled on the wharf
Bullet Drops Sheriff.
The first man to fall was Sheriff
McRea, seriously. injured. Deputy
sheriffs on the wharf quickly rallied
their forces, however, and returned
the fire of the invaders on the We
roma. Fully 1000 shots were ex
changed.
Men on the wharf and on the boa
we're seen to fall and the Verona i'm
mediately backed out of the dock ant
started back toward Seattle.
That there was not further loss O.
life was due to the action of Ernes
M. Shellgren, chief engineer of the
Verona, in backing the steamer
away.
Trouble of Long Standing.
The trouble between the l. w. w
members and the authorities at Ev
erett has been of several months
standing, and was the outgrowth of q
strike of single weavers here After
several minor outbreaks of violence
during the strike Sheriff McRae or
ganized the citizens committee and
expGed all members Of the l. w. W.
from the city On several occasions
small parties of men have attempted
to enter Everett but have been turn
ed back by the sheriff.
October 80 forty-five members OF
the l. w. w. came from Seattle by
steamer, but were met at the wharf
by the citizens posse, loaded into
automobiles and escorted to a point
south of town, where they were lib.
Grated and ordered to go back to Sc.
attic.
Newspaper Calls for Revenge.
Last week the Industrial Worker,
the official organ of the 1. w. w. in
Seattle, announced that the forcible
expulsion Of men from Everett must
be avenged, and called for 1000 vol
unteers to go to Everett to estab-
lish the fright of free speech"
"The fight must be won," said the
paper.
Everett Posse Wounded.
Jeff Beard, James Broadhurst, E.
Beuhreur, r. E. Brown, Lewis Con-
nor, Owen Clay, Fred Durr, A. j.
Ettenborough, Athol Gorrill, Spokane,
University of Washington student,
visiting in Everett; Joseph Irving Sr,
wealthy lumberman; James Maher,
Donald McRae, sheriff; Lee NAL
quist, j. c. Rymer, e. Stuchell, Jr,
University Of Washington student;
Charles Tooker, Harry Blackburn, H.