In a short time the intervening block that separated them from the Union Hall was covered.  The building was stormed with clubs and stones.  Every window was shattered and every door was smashed, the very sides of the building were torn off by the mob in its blind fury.  Inside the rioters tore down the partitions and broke up chairs and pictures.  The union men were surrounded, beaten and driven to the street where they were forced to watch furniture, records, typewriter and literature demolished and burned before their eyes.  An American flag hanging in the hall, was torn down and destroyed.  A Victrola and a desk were carried to the street with considerable care.  The former was auctioned off on the spot for the benefit of the Red Cross.  James Churchill, owner of a glove factory, won the machine.  He still boasts of its possession.  The desk was appropriated by F.B.  Hubbard himself.  This was turned over to an expressman and carted to the Chamber of Commerce.  A small boy picked up the typewriter case and started to take it to a nearby hotel office.  One of the terrorists detected the act and gave warning.  The mob seized the lad, took him to a nearby light pole and threatened to lynch him if he did not tell them where books and papers were secreted which somebody said had been carried away by him.  The boy denied having done this, but the hoodlums went into the hotel, ransacked and overturned everything.  Not finding what they wanted, they left a notice that the proprietor would have to take the sign down from his building in just twenty-four hours.  Then the mob surged around the unfortunate men who had been found in the Union hall.  With cuffs and blows these were dragged to waiting trucks where they were lifted by the ears to the body of the machine and knocked prostrate one at a time.  Sometimes a man would be dropped to the ground just after he had been lifted from his feet.  Here he would lay with ear drums bursting and writhing from the kicks and blows that had been freely given.  Like all similar mobs this one carried ropes, which were placed about the necks of the loggers.  “Here’s and I.W.W.” yelled someone.  “What shall we do with him?” A cry was given to “lynch him!” Some were taken to the city jail and the rest were dumped unceremoniously on the other side of the county line.

Since that time the wrecked hall has remained tenantless and unrepaired.  Grey and gaunt like a house in battle-scarred Belgium, it stands a mute testimony of the labor-hating ferocity of the lumber trust.  Repeated efforts have since been made to destroy the remains with fire.  The defense had tried without avail to introduce a photograph of the ruin as evidence to prove that the second hall was raided in a similar manner on Armistice Day, 1919.  Judge Wilson refused to permit the jury to see either the photographs or the hall.  But in case of another trial...?

Evidently the lumber trust thought it better to have all traces of its previous crime obliterated.