Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-11-10
WOUNDED LIST OVER FIFTY
Pitched Battle Follows Refusal to
Permit Landing-WhoIesaIe Ar
rests-Women In It-Sheriff
and Deputies Wounded.

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the steamer Verona, which had car
ried them from Seattle.
The boat was met by Sheriff Nc
Rea of Snohomish county, who, with
a posse, forbade the men to land. A
shot fired from the Verona, accord
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 I'M
wounded to the city jail.
The Dead.
In Everett citizens posse
G. o. Curtis, formerly lieutenant
Company I, Second infantry, Wash
ington national guard.
Members of the l. w. W., who were
on the Verona and were brought to
Seattle
Hugo Gerlot, age "a, Milwaukee,
Wis, seaman.
John Looney, age 26, Aver juno
ton, Mass, laborer.
Harry Pierce, age 2S, 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
taken from a second steamer which
failed to reach Everett. The women
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 been
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 a meeting held
Saturday night planned to meet the
invaders and deny them privileges of
landing.
When the Verona reached the city
wharf Sheriff McRea, who was back.
ed by a posse of deputy sheriffs and
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 for
the party, began arguing with the
sheriff and then made a speech.
Apparently as a signal the man
dropped his hand and armed men on
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 boat
were 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 Of
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 1. w. w
members and the authorities at Ev
erett has been of several months
standing, and was the outgrowth of ;
strike of shingle weavers here. AfteI
several minor outbreaks of violenc,
during the strike Sheriff McRae or
ganized the citizens committee an,
expelled all members of the l. w. w
from the city. On several occasions
small parties of men have attemptet
to enter Everett, but have been turn
ed back by the sheriff.
October 80 forty-five members O
the l. w. w. came from Seattle b,
steamer, but were met at the whar
by the citizens posse, loaded int
automobiles and escorted to a poin
south of town, where they were lii
Grated and ordered to go back to Sc
attic.
newspaper Calls Tor Revenge.
Last week the Industrial Worker
the official organ of the l. w. w. Il
Seattle. announced that the forcibl
expulsion of men from Everett mus
be avenged, and called for 1000 vo
unteers to go to Everett to estat
lish the right of free speech"
"The fight must be won," said tn
paper.
Everett Posse Wounded.
Jeff Beard. James Broadhurst, I
Beuhreur, r. e, Brown, Lewis Cor
nor, Owen Clay, Fred DUR, A.
Peterborough. Athol Gorrill, Spokane
University of Washington student
visiting in Everett; Joseph Irving 81