Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-09-18
Desperate Conflict Between
the Prisoners, officers,
and Guards Of the
Prison!
ONE MAN KILLED AND aKV.
RRAL WOUNDED ON BOTH
AIDES. INCLUDING 1T.
GOV. DENVER.
TWENTY.NINE DEsPER.
ATE coNvlcrS At
TARGET
e EXCITEMENT
the MILITARY OF VIRGINIA
CO TO the REScuE-PUR-
SUIT OF THE PRIS-
oNERS

eonvlcts at the State Prison, situated a
mile and q quarter from Carson City,
made the most desperate and success
full attempt to escape ever yet known
at that establishment. The result was
that twenty-nine effected their escape.
after Q revere hand-to-hand conflict
with tho guards and officers Of tho
Prison, in whichseveral were wounded
on both Sides including Lieutenant
Governor Denver, and Matt Plxley, Of
the Warm Springs Hotel, near by, was
shot dead. The wind was blowing
heavily at the time, and binding
clouds of dust filed the valley, consid-
erably favoring the break In obscurlng
or disgusting any unusual sounds
made By the prisoners.
The Break.
Il being Sunday, the prisoners were
not at work, but were In the large
common room or hall allotted to them
outside Of the cells. At the hour men-
toned v. E. Rollins, Captain Of the
Guard, went into this room rs usual to
lock up the prisoners In their respective
cells for the night. He had just
stepped inside the door when he was
knocked down by a blow on the head
with u bottle by one of the prisoners,
another also striking him over the
len eye with q slung shot,
both INJECTING severe wounds.
BE fell bleeding and almost s~enseless
TO the floor, and was Immediately
selsed by Pat Hurley, one OF the con-
yfctS and thrown Into a cell near by
and the door closed. This was done
without alarming the guard or any one
Alse outside the CRATE. The prisoners
than proceeded to do what Pat Hurley
did a few months ago. Climbing OH
top Of the upper tier Of cells, with All
az they had somehow procured, they
cut a hole In the roof large enough to
crawl through, each prisoner being
armed with q sort Of slung-shot, made
of bits Of iron or other metal sewed or
tied I'D in strips OF cloth, while a few
had knives they had made themselves
or somehow come in possession OF. The
roof was too high at the point Of egress
for them to jump to the ground, there
fore, calculating the distance correctly,
they passed along to just over a room
at the head Of the main staircase lead
ing from the second story to the ground
floor. Cutting q hole through the roof
a. hastily as possible, all the scamps
Immediately jumped down through,
and passing down the stairway were
directly In possession Of the office and
armory Of the prison. The guards and
officers Of the prison were taken COM
lpletsly by surprise, but as soon as the
sIarm Was given the fighting COM
menced. Il was q desperate hand-to'
hand conflict, In which the guards and
officers stood up to It maniully' ana
the prisoners fought with allthe energy
Of d~eaperation. It was Of short dura.
non. however, when the convicts be.
coming masters Of the situation - Of
tbem took leave Of the prison. There
ware "a In all confined there, we be-
,lieve. but the balance concluded to
stay or could not get away. Among
thcs. were Davis and johnson, the
staoe robbers. Those who escaped
passed through the prison yard and uE
over the face Of the stone quarry, those
climbing up frat hauling up the other;
bv thelr hands, while others made a
hole through the high board fence near
bv. About half Of them had their iron:
on-a chain from the waist to ankle
and thence an end for a ball attach
.msnt. They went In an sasterly direc
ton TO the high ridge beyond thu
prison and followed IL, turning TO the
fight. The following, copied from the
Carson Register extra Of this morning
aiyes the Names term OF confinement
ETC., Of