The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-11-14
|. ". WIS fire ON
VICTORY PARADE
Snipers Kill q From Ambush,
Many Nabbed In
Raids.

Centraiia, Washington, Nov. IL
Dale Hubbard, one of the victims in
todays shooting during the armistice
parade, died tonight of his wounds.
bringing the death list up to four.
IL was learned late tonight that the
man hanged by the mob here was
Britt Smith, secretary of the |. w. w.
local here.
About S o'clock the mob surround
ing the CentralR Jail succeeded in
getting one of the /. w. WIS arrested
out of the jail and into an automo-
bile. rushing him away before guards
could prevent 1t, telephone reports
here said.
According to report, the mob took
the alleged l. W. w. from jail, es-
corted him to point just outside
the city limits and hanged him on a
bridge on what is known as the old
Chehalis Military road.
Police tonight raided |. w. W.
headquarters and took forty men who
were attending a meeting to the city
Jail for investigation.
The roundup of all men in Port
land suspected of being members of
the Industrial Workers of the World
was ordered tonightby Mayor George
Baker. Chief of Police jenkins at
once detailed a squad of special po-
lire tn search the CITY
Centrala. Wash, Nov. 11-Three
former soldiers. members of the
American Legion. were killed. two
mortally wounded and several other
soldiers were less seriously hur'
when persons said to be members of
the Industrial Workers of the World
fired ON an Armistice Day parade
today as 1t passed the L. w. w. hall. y
a man said To have been one of
those who fired on the marchers is
believed to have been lynched to-
night by citizens.
At least eight supposed Industrial
Workers of the World are in the To- !
cal Jail, guarded from mob of sew
eral hundred friends of the men shot !
down today.
The dead:
Arthur MElfresh, Centralia.
Ben Casagranda Centralia.
Warren Grimm, Centralia.
The wounded include:
Dale Hubbard. Centralia, probably
fatally.
John Earl Watt. Chehalis, proba-
bly, fatally.
Shippers in I. W. w. Hall.
The shooting began when the pa
rade drew ARREST of the Industrial
Workers of the World hall. according
to witnesses, the bullets going over
the heads of the crowd watching the
parade. Onlookers say shots came
from every direction and that snipers
in the upper windows of the |. w. w
headquarters building fired into the
line.
McElfresh was killed instantly.
Grimm. formerly lieutenant, was
leading platoon in the parade and
fell at the second burst of fire. NOR J
tally wounded e
George Stevens. of Centralia, at a
tempted to disarm an alleged /. w. !
W., and was wounded in the struggle b
which ensued.
Tlnhha r1 rot oil IA Ia,
pursuing a supposed /. w. w. who Z
fired as he ran from the group of a
men headed by Hubbard. o
1t was this man, according to re- d
ports, who was hanged by a mob to- n
night. C
Struck I'm Body. Il
Casagranda was in the ranks and a
a rifle bullet struck him In the body. "
They got me this time" he said as ~
he doubled up and fell in the street.
The crowd, uniformed and ununi-
formed. started the chase.
Gathering up persons suspected of
afiiliation with the radical order, N,
some OF the service men took them to tie
Jail while others of the marchers tore ri
Dut the front of the building where m
he I. w. w. headquarters is located. re
seized and burned a quantity of WI
literature and all the furniture and III
among themselves and IN
,entralia citizens the arms and am. sh
nunitiOn stored In the Headquarters. Inc
Meanwhile crowd was gathering LEI
bout the jail. Former service men. er
one OF them armed with the seized lea
yea pons and others armed. patroled SCI