Arizona republican., 1920-10-04

GRAPHIC STORY
 IF POLICE RAID ,.
 IN TUBBERCURRY.
 TUBBERCURRY, Ireland. Oct "A town half in ruins and the remnant of its inhabitants living in dread of a repetition of the raid of last week. and a handful of seemingly nervous police who had shut themselves inside bar racks with the body of the slain Dis trict Inspector Brady were what the correspondent found when he reached this remote place in Ireland today.
 The correspondent was told how Acting County Commissioner Russell tried to prevent the destruction of the town From the managers of the two fires swept creameries he received ac- counts of an heroic struggle in the darkness and a thick fog to save the institutions, and from the wife of one of the managers he heard a story of how she. while facing four rifles, pointed at her head, contrived a ruse to safeguard her husband
 For many weeks, the correspondent was told. the local police had been subject to a boycott by the towns people. For a fortnight preceding Thursdays raid, the people were de- .T- &t.r roofs of a store adjoining the barracks. The store later was riddled with bull lets and its interior wrecked.
 When the news on Thursday of the ambushing of a police lorry reached Tubbercurry. two thirds of it's 300 pop, ulation fled in panic, anticipating a speedy reprisal. At about midnight four lorries filled with uniformed n1er. and. it is said. including Commissioned Russell arrived in Tubbercurry. Accounts of what happened after ward as given to the correspondent by various townspeople follow:
 The lorries stopped in front of a pub lie house and when the occupants goi out, Commissioner Russell begged 1 them not to destroy property. One man answered tire commissioner with an oath, and all the men rushed to.
 ward the saloon. An, orgy of drink, | ing. bottle smashing and wrecking eia sued. after which the men broke III | into groups and proceeded systematic. ally with the work of destruction. With | incendiary bombs set fire to the gen. | eral store. which was destroyed. Tws other stores were burned and fiftesr
 smaller shops and residences wer' damaged. The loss is estimated a about a half million dollars.
 The raiders remained for nearl,
 three hours. Refugees who had beel crouching in distant fields said the.
 witnessed the spread of the flames
 heard the detonations of bombs an,
 the fusilades of rifle shots and tn
 shouts of come out you Sim Feinersl" Among the watchers o
 these events were screaming womel and children.
 Those who came in contact with tn
 raiders said some of them wore bls.cl
 coats and policemen's caps; other
 were dressed in khaki.
 Shortly before a. m. the men re
 entered the lorries and were driven off II At about that time it was said,
 neighbor awakened Thomas Mui.ri
 cane. manager of the Ballyara cream
 cry, whose home stands several hun
 dred yards from the big cooperariv
 plant. Hurricane aroused his wife an
 children and priest who was visiiin
 the family. and ran toward the cream
 cry. Hardly had Mrs. NfurrIcsn
 hustled the children downstairs tha
 she heard a lorry approaching. Tn
 next minute several bullets tor
 through the upper part of the hous one of them striking the bed she ha just left. She, the children and tn priest took refuge in the kitchen. A lorry drew up before the creamer sA 4.a.s t.
 set about to destroy it. Foum mel . however. returned to the Murrican 2 residence. What followed was relate to the Associated Press correspondei : by Mrs. Hurricane. They fired aboU ! 20 shots toward the house" she sai' My little boy, who was coming dow 3 the stairs, which faced the door, ha
 a miraculous escape. The men the 3 went around to the rear of the hous ,. and fired into the kitchen. I wa : sitting in the corner with my baby e my lap. The other children were lyir upon the floor. ~ One bullet grazed m
 hand which was supporting the baby V head"
 Mrs. Hurricane showed the eorrei , pendent her wounded fingers an a pointed out to him a splintered ho a the bullet had made in the wall. "The children, the priest and r. sf g continued, ran into the alley and ar 2 other bullet, crashing through the pal 1 tition barely missed the priests nea
 The men then ran around to q front of the house. shouting Con
 out. l went out. The men wcoverir ; me with their rifles demanded to kno u the whereabouts of my husband. I IT K fused 10 tell them. The children meal g while were crying and tugging at II 't skirts.
 c Suddenly from a field across il n, road I heard my husbands voice. | r. called out to me Keep cool. Tho m, d then wheeled and fired five shots n that direction. I pulled down tbe ar e of one of the men as he was fir in n and cried out to my husband. TT r. men still thought my husband was I the house and three of them enteIV ;- They seized the priest, but soon req
 iZed their mistake"
 " After insulting and cursing q ,- priest, the men departed. Meanwh ,a two other lorries proceeded to ( , Anchoniry creamery, four miles ea t@ which also was damaged with ince ], diary bombs.
 The manager of the creamery, al x, employees and neighbors by hard wo y succeeded in protecting the 'creameI Y It is supplied by 500 small farmei
 To obtain from the Tubbercur
 constabulary an answer to the clarg