Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-11-19
I.w. WIS MURDER SOLDIERS.
llastartls' Bullets End Lives OF Over
seas Men Pamding.

Ben Cassagranda, Centralia real
estate han, died late to-day from
wounds received when Industrial
Workers OF the World fired on Ar
mistice Day parade here to-day. The
death list early tonight stood at
three Arthur McElfresh having been
killed instantly. All were overseas
men. Dale Hubbard, one Of the ST;
men wounded. was reported dying.
The other wounded will recover, i,
was said. All the killed and wound
ed were overseas veterans.
Sixteen alleged Industrial Work
ers Of the World were arrested early
tonight, and more were being placed
in Jail as fast rs they could be found.
Former soldiers were guarding the
Jail TO keep the prisoners from Il mob
which crowded around the building.
Immediately after the shooting, a
crowd Of spectators and marchers
seized a man they believed to be the
ringleadcr OF the /. W. w. They
put a rope around his neck, threw
the rope over the cross-arm Of
telephone pole and started to haul
him up. He was in the air only
brief period before the chief Of po-
lice prevailed upon the crowd to
let him down. Tonight the man
was in jail here nearly dead.
Headed by Veterans.
The whole city had turned out to
celebrate the anniversary Of the sus-
pension Of hostilities and large
parade was formed, headed by the
city's boys who had helped bring
about the glad day year ago. Wear
ing the uniforms that sheltered them
in the trenches Of France and on
the picket lines Of the German bord-
Of the hundreds of women and chill
dren who lined the streets.
AS the column swung around the
corner Of Tower avenue and Second
avenue, the band struck up a patri-
otto march. Then bullets came into
the ranks from an unseen enemy.
Men fell to the pavement and tiny
rivulets Of blood showed the spec
tators what had taken place, the
crack Of tho rifles Of the assassins
having been drowned by the blare
Of the band.
Tiny puffs Of smoke from the roof
of a nearby building indicated
whence the bullets had come, and
the nearness OF the ]. w. w. hall led
to the quick decision that the heroes
who had weathered the sanguinary
battlefields Of Europe had been slain
from ambush by radicals who op-
posed the American system Of
government.
The marching soldiers did not
linger to await the order to fall out
but with seeming intuition rushed
into the nearby structure and sought
their way to the roofs. The snipers
had disappeared, but the service men
sought highways and byways for all
suspicious persons and then sent out
pioneers into the timhered try
p around lhu city.
%u1d,n Unrror.
X WiYeS. daughters uuN uweetMca rte
" OF tb@ paradol9 after Il mumnutdry
pause from thN S.lden terror. OF the
Aitua..on, rushed to the aid OF the
( fallen. That the firing was intended
J for soldiers was shown by the fact
! that all the killed and injured we're
in the military section of the pa
rade. which was made up partly Of
residents OF Chehalis.
Arthur MCIClfrcSh was found to
have been killed instantly, but War
rem Grimm did not die until later
Grimm's death added to the fury Of
the crowd OF civilians that swarmed
later about the Jail to demand VEN
geance.
He had been an idol Of the town
even before the war, as he was q star
football player at the University Of
washington. He had added to the
esteem OF his townsmen by pro-
fessional career until the war for
democracy called him. He had been
welcomed home with all the plaudits
due warrior, and his death at the
hidden hands Of those who opposed
that for which he had faced the enc
my In the open, drove men and
women to frenzy.
AS soon az the first excitement
subsided somewhat, word Of the at
tack was sent to Governor Hart, at
Olympia. He communicated with
Department Of Justice officers at Sc
attic and then dispatched rs mem-
bers Of the Third Infantry, National
Guard, to Centralia
Mob Hangs Prisoner.
Seattle, WASH, Oct. | About S
o'clock tho mob surrounding the
Centralia Jail succeeding in getting
one OF the l. w. VS. arrested out
Of the Jail and into an automibile,
rushing him away before the guards
could prevent it.
At 7.30 tonight the city's lights
suddenly were cut off and volley
OF shots rained down Pearl street.
1t was during this period that the
prisoner was taken from Jail and
spirited away. He was rushed
toward nearby wood and at last
accounts the crowd had disappeared
with him.
\ report telephoned to the AS
sociated Press here tonight says:
''rhe mans body is now hanging on
rope under the bridge about ten
feet from tho wafer rho I w w