The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industrySmith, Walker C.
History
The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry
Smith, Walker C.
Industrial Workers of the World; Lumbering -- Washington (State); Lumbermen -- Washington (State)
Steve Sabo, age 21, shot in left shoulder.
Robert Adams, age 32, shot in left arm.
Owen Genty, age 26, wounded in right kidney.
C. C. England, age 27, shot in left knee.
Nick Canaeff, age 35, shot in left arm.
Albert Doninger, age 20, wounded in left arm.
Brockman B. Armstrong, age 35, wounds on head.
E. J. Shapeero, age 24, wounded in right leg.
Carl Burke, age 25, shot in back and shoulder.
Ira Luft, age 27, shot in right side of back.
George Turnquist, age 26, wounded in left leg.
George Brown, age 21, shot in back.
D. J. McCarthy, age 37, shot in side of head and in right leg.
John Adams, age 28, wounded in right elbow.
Edward Truitt, age 28, shot in right elbow.
Others on the boat who were wounded were Oscar Carlson, passenger, nine
severe bullet wounds in all parts of his body; L. S. Davis, ship
steward, wounded in the arm, and Charles Smith, Pinkerton "stool pigeon"
with a slight scalp injury.
The wounded men were none too well treated at the city hospital, only a
part of the neglect being due to the overcrowded condition of the wards.
Wounds were hastily dressed and in some cases the injured men were
placed in jail at once where they had to care for themselves as best
they might.
In Everett the deputies left the dock when the Verona had steamed out of
the range of their rifle fire, taking with them the corpse of gunman C.
O. Curtis, office manager of the Canyon Lumber Company, and
deputy-sheriff Jefferson Beard, whose wounds caused his death the
following morning. The injured deputies were H. B. Blackburn, James A.
Broadbent, R. E. Brown, E. P. Buehrer, Owen Clay, Louis Connor, Jr.,
Fred Durr, A. J. Ettenborough, Athol Gorrell, Thomas Hedley, Joe Irving,
James Meagher; Donald McRae, J. C. Rymer, Edwin Stuchell, and Charles
Tucker. Hooted, hissed, and jeered at by the thousands of citizens on
the viaduct and hill above the dock, these self-immolated prostitutes to
the god of greater profits were taken to the hospitals for treatment.
Among the crowd of citizens was Mrs. Edith Frennette, who had been in
Everett a couple of days in connection with a lumber trust charge
against her, and with her were Mrs. Lorna Mahler and Mrs. Joyce Peters,
who had come from Seattle to attend the proposed street meeting. Making
the claim that Mrs. Frenette had threatened the life of Sheriff McRae
with a gun and had tried to throw red pepper into his eyes as he was
being transported from the dock, the Everett authorities caused the
arrest of the three women in Seattle as they were returning in an auto
to meet the Verona at the Seattle dock. They were held several days
before being released, no charges having been placed against Mrs. Mahler
or Mrs. Peters, and the case against Mrs. Frenette was eventually
dismissed, just as had been all previous charges made by McRae. These
three arrests brought the total number of free speech prisoners up to
two hundred and ninety-four.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account