New-York tribune., 1919-11-12

CENTRALIA, Wash, Nov. IL
Three former soldiers, members of
lhe American Legion, were killed,
two other service men were probably
fatally wounded and several other
soldiers were less seriously hurt,
when persons, said to be members of
he Industrial Workers of the World,
tired on an Armistice Day parade
,o-day as ii passed the I. w. w.
Hall.
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 I. W. Ws.
are in the local Jail, guarded from a
mob of several hundred friends of
the men shot down to-day.
Rumors Of additional violence we're
current late .o-nirht. More than one
citizen declared: There will not be
any l. W. W.'s left in the iail bv morn
ing.' Governor Hart mas ordered one
company OF the State Guard, number
ng about seventy-iiYe men, here from
Tacoma.
The Dead:
Arthur McElfresh, Centralia.
Ben Casagranda, Centralia.
Warren Grimm, Centralia.
The wounded include: Dale Hub
bard, Centraiia, probably fatally; John
Earl Watt, Chehalis. probably fatally.
Immediately after the shooting a
crowd of spectators and marchcrs
seized Il man they believed to be the
ring ieader Of the !. ". W. They put
rope around his neck. threw the rope
over the cross arm of telephone pole
and started to haul him up. lie was
IN the air only brief period before
The chief of police prevailed upon the
crowd to let him down. Tonight the
man is in Jail here nearly dead.
About 8 o'clock the mob surrounding
the Centralia jail succeerer in getting
one Of the L. w. W.'s arrested out of
the Jail and into an automobile, rush
ing him away before guards could pre-
vent it.
Lights Suddenly Go Out
Al 1880 o'clock tonight the city's
lights suddenly were cut off and u
voliey of shots raiNed down Pearl
Street. 1t was during this period that
me prisoner was taken from jail and
"plrited away He was rushed toward
wood. and at last accounts the crowd
r1d disappeared with him.
The s"ootine began when the parade
drew abreast Of the Industrial Workers
of the World Hall, according to wit
nesses, the bullets going over the heads
OF the crowds watching the parade.
Vniookers say shots came from every
direction, and that snipers in the upper
windows of the l. W. w. Headquarters
building fired into the line
McElfresh was killed instantly.
Hrimm, formerly lieutenant, was
ieadlng platoon in the parade. He
ieil at the Second burst of fire, fatally
wounded.
George Stevens, of Centralia. at
-'fnfted to disarm an alleged l. w. W,
ana was wounded in the struggle that
cnsucd
Shot by Man Lynched
cupboard sustained his wound in pur-
SUNG supposed |. W. W, who fired as
ns We ran from the group of men headed by
iuooard. 1t was this man, according to
night. ~ g -"'' W.
Casagranda was in tho ranks and a
iine aer bullet struck him in the body.
l., ihey got me this time," he said as
nc doubled up and fell in the street.
The crowd, uniformed and ununi-
,ormed, started the chase. Gathering
up persons suspected of affiliation with
'ne radical order, some of the service
me" TOOK them to jail, while others of
ne marchers tore out the front of the
nu'lo'ng where the I. W. W hearquar-
'Sfs is located, seized and burned a
quantity OF literature and all the fur
Nlture and distributed among themselves
ana Centralia citizens the arms and
ammunition stored in the headquarters.
Meanwhile crowd was catherine
about the Jail. Former service men
some of them armed with the seized
weapons and others unarmed, patrolled
Continued on paoe fhree