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Centralia Tragedy

November 11th, 1919 attack by American Legionnaires on the Centralia IWW hall, and the violence that followed
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Summary

Centralia Tragedy is an attack[1]. It draws 247 Wikipedia views per month (attack category, ranking #265 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: massacre[4]
  • Location: Centralia[5]
  • Commons category: Centralia Tragedy[6]
  • Target: Industrial Workers of the World[7]
  • Point in time: November 11, 1919[8]
  • Number of deaths: 7[9]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/University of Washington[10]
  • Victim(s): Wesley Everest[11]

Why It Matters

Centralia Tragedy is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Hmains · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Centralia Tragedy
    Sitelink count → 3
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'en', 'es']
    Claims rich → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Commons category: Centralia Tragedy"
  2. 8w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → attack, massacre
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||fr */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47278|batch #47278]]"
  3. 10w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United States
    Point in time → +1919-11-11T00:00:00Z
    Freebase id → /m/04_c7d
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.720555555556, 'lon': -122.96138888889}
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: occurrence, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263392|batch #263392]]"
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