Victims
The only significant facts not in dispute are the identities of the victims:
Killed:
- Warren Grimm, American Legion Post Commander
- Arthur McElfresh, American Legion
- Ben Cassagranda, American Legion
- Dale Hubbard, American Legion
- John M. Haney, Centralia Deputy Sheriff
- Wesley Everest, IWW
Wounded:
- Bernard Eubanks, American Legion
- Eugene Pfitzer, American Legion
- Earl Watts, American Legion
- Alva Coleman, American Legion
- John Watt, American Legion
Eight Wobblies were convicted of 2nd degree murder for their roles in the massacre:
- Eugene Barnett;
- Bert Bland;
- O.C. Bland;
- Ray Becker;
- John McInerney;
- John Lamb; and,
- Loren Roberts (guilty, but found insane).
Mike Sheehan and Elmer Smith were acquitted. Bert Faulkner and Tom Morgan, who turned states evidence, had their charges dropped.
Read more about this topic: Centralia Massacre (Washington)
Famous quotes containing the word victims:
“Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care beyond today.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“I don’t see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by a steamroller so you have a cardboard person. We are far more resilient and more rounded than that. I will go on showing there’s more to us than our being victimized. Victims are dead.”
—Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)