Complex sentence: Tensions rise when a family is revealed to have typhus and when a woman goes into labor, some of the men attempt an escape when they find a guard they think they can trust, only to be caught and executed.
Split into simpler sentences: Tensions rise when a family is revealed to have typhus and when a woman goes into labor. Some of the men attempt an escape when they find a guard they think they can trust, only to be caught and executed.