Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-11-12
MEN FIRED UPON
GUARD 16JAILED:
TROOPS CALLED
Ringleader Of Shooters Strung Up But Saved From
Death by Chief Of Police; Another Red
Taken to Woods and Hanged.
HEADQUARTERS FROM WHICH SHOTS CAME
RAIDED, FITTINGS BURNED in STREET

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Centraa Wash Nov. 11Centralia tonight one seeth
ing mob bent avenging the murder by W. WIS today three
participants in Armistce day parade
The four victims shot down by bullets from l. w W.
headquarters the parade there They
diers Two died in the ranks Two succumbed
night Six others are in the hospital wounded.
One W. W. has been lynched tonight Sixteen are in
JAIL guarded by service men who fired the parade
Meanwhile the arrival of Company F. Third Washington
antry from Seattle is awaited by the authorities.
Infurated mobs of citizens raided the W. W. hail.
its fittings in the street. and tried to lynch the W.
W. attorney.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED
WARREN GRIMM, Centraa attorney mortalIy shot as he
BEN cAsAGRANDA CentraIa boot black died of wounds
in hospital
Dale Hubbard former soldier
Britt Smith, hanged by mob
The wounded:
George Stevens Centraa shot in Leg Emery Coleman shot
through the leg wound not John Earl Watt
perhaps fatally wounded Eugene Pher Chelsea eervce
THOUSANDS ATTACK JAIL
Approximately l6 alleged radicals had been arrested and
lodged in the city jail $50 o'clock tonight and crowd of
exseryice angry combng the hills and woods
rounding Cenrala for others.
AT that time the crowd in front of the Jail had sweed
between 1000 and 5000 including hundreds from nearby
towns Frequent yes of Lynch them heard the
mob
Determined ex-servce armed with high powered rifles
surrounded the JAIL while Others armed and armed took
the search of the surrounding district bent rounding
peced radicals wherever found.
Centrala business and city officials attempted to quiet
the surgng crowd by speeches in front of the jail
MOB GETS FIRST VICTIM
AT O'Clock the mob surrounding the Jail get
ting Britt Smith secretary of the local W. W. and of the
arrested W. WIS out of the Jail automobile rushing
him away before guards could prevent
The mob escorted Smith just outside the city limits
and hanged him bridge what is known the old Chelsea
mill road.
The mans body hanging a under the bridge
about the The victim of the ynchng
Dal Hubbard during the fight the bank,
it is said.
FARMER SAW LYNCHING.
Bob Burrows, farmer living the bridge is the best
witness to the hanging.
sThe struggling between the who held him.
said Burrows They worked without word them stop
from the end the bridge the city,
the cossbeam The body with thud
then shot fired Then shots stood distance
perhaps thirty in all fired together
At 1870 o'clock the lights of the city suddenly
shots down Pearl street. It was during
this period that Smith taken from jail spirited away
The firing started when the parade proceeding
Centaias main street. the Second
Avenue where the l. w. w. hall is located.
Grimm leading company dropped in his tracks,
moraly wounded McElfresh marching ranks
Others, wounded, fell to the pavement.
Stevens shot when he attempted gun
an alleged L. w. W. standing on the sidewalk.
FUGITIVE SHOOTS PURsUERS.
Hubbard gathered small number of together and start
ed in pursuit of armed W. W. The fugitive dashed down
side street. turning and shooting the he
The all unarmed. lodged behind both poles and
trees the bullets They finally drove the man to the
bank where he took refuge behind ump OF bushes AS
the fired Wondng several OF them,
Immediately after the shooting crowd OF spectators ana
maches they believed to be the ngeader OF the
W. put neck. drew the rope over the
telephone and started haul MN up he was
in the air only few minutes before the chief of police prevailed
upon the crowd to let him Tonight the in jail
where he nearly died.