Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-11-14
SOLDIERS SHOT
BY |. W. WIS
Parade in Washington State is
Suddenly Stopped by Firing
of Anarchists, Several of
Whom Are Lynched.


former soldiers, members of the
American Legion, were killed, two
other service men were probably NOR
tally wounded and several others
soldiers were less seriously hurt
when persons, said to be members of
the Industrial Workers of the World.
fired on an Armistice Day parade to-
day as it passed the Industrial Work.
ers of the World hall.
A man said to have been one of
those who fired on the marchers is
believed to have been lynchcd 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.
The dead:
Arthur Melfresh, Centralia.
Warren Grimm, Centralia.
Ben Cassagra.,da, Centralia.
The wounded include:
Dale Hubbard, Centralia, probably
fatally.
John Earl Watts, Chehalis, probab-
ly fatally
The shooting began when the r,
rade drew abreast of the Industrial
Workers of the World hall, accord
ing to witnesses, the bullets going
over the heads of the crowds watch
ing thep arade. Onlookers say shots
came from every direction and that
snipcrs in the upper windows of the
Industrial Workers of the World
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
tally wounded.
George Stevens, Of Centralia, at
tempted to disarm an alleged Indus
trial Worker of the World and was
wounded in the struggle which en-
sued
Hubbard sustained his wound in
pursuing n supposed Industrial Work
er of the World who fired as he ran
From the group Of men header py
Hubbard.
1t was this man, according to re-
ports, who was hanged by a mob.
Cassagranda was in the ranks and
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 uniform
ed, started the chase.
Gathering up persons suspected of
affliation with the radical order.
some Of the service men took them to
Jail while others of the marchers tore
out the front of the building where
the Industrial Workers of the World
headquarters is located, seized and
burned quantity Of literature and
all the furniture and distributed
among themselves and Centralia citi-
zens the arms and ammunition stor-
ed in the headquarters.
Meanwhile crowd was gathering
about he Jail. Former service men,
some of them armed with thes eized
weapons, and othersa rmed, patroled
the ground near the Jail to prevent
further violence.
According to ex-service men, who
said they were present, Hubbard's
party caught the man they wcro
chasing, after he had fired at ther,
several times, ON the banks Of the
Skookunchuck river n small stream
which runs through the town. Hub
bard and the man grappled, they
said, and the supposed Industrial
Workers of the World fired directly
into Hubbard's body. George Stevens,
another Of the crowd chasing the gun
man, kicked the pistol from the In
dustrial Worker Of the Worlds hands.
A rope then was placed about the
mans neck, thrown over the crossarm
of telephone pole and he was hoist
ed into the air. The police. persuad-
ed the crowd to let the man down be-
fore he was dead, and he wns taken
to Jail.
purLoso Eardan Corn;yoI Cofurdny