The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-19
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crowd. who at ence seized the arm
ory of the prison, Office, clothing,
ammunition, etc. 1t being Sunday
and the prisoners under lock and key,
no guards were on the outer wall,
and but few of the officers were I'M
der arms, most of them being outside
the building and unable to get at the
armory after the alarm was given.
T. Al. Isaacs, a guard from Cold
Hill, was in the yard and had a
6-shooter. With this he confronted
the prisoners as they emerged from
the main building, and the fire be-
came general. Isaacs stood like a
stone column, firing steadily into the
motley crowd and receiving vOlley
after volley with the coolest inditfer-
ence. \ ball passed through his
right knee, breaking it, and lodged
in the rear of the left knee. At this
Isaacs Strengthened himself up,
threw the weight of his body on the
left and only unbroken leg. and fired
again BY this time the armed des-
peradoeS at whom he "a firing were
almost within striking distance Of
him, were steadily approaching and
as steadily firing at him with 6-shOot-
ers. Another shot the heroic IsaacS
in the hip and sent him to earth.
The prisoners seized his pistol, but
out of sheer admiration OF his heroic
courage spared his life.
While this was going on, John
Newhouse, another guard from Gold
Hill, was coming to the rescue with
all speed. regardless of danger. He
rushed in at close range and opened
on the convicts with Il G-shooter, his
first shot taking effect in the body of
+. b. Parsons. one of the Verdi cal
robbers. The nature Of the wound
Is not known. but it is doubtless
serious. N~ewhOuse. the next instant,
received two wounds almost simulta-
neou~ly, one in the back Of the head
and the other in the back. These
wounds knocked him down and rem
dered him helpless.
BY tins time Perasich IA Slavo-
MAN 4 guard from this city, who
was outside OF the prison yard and
unarme,i, had run into the Warm
Springs Hotel and procured a >
shooter. With thi, lie rushed into
the yard and commenced firing.
/ Three Of his shots. he IS certain. took
eff CT. as he saw as many men sqlIrm
and sta%-er rs he fired. ~ he fred
the fourth shot he received a bali in
the LEFT hip, which passed forward
anil downward through the groin
and lodged halfway down the thigh
and between the femoral arter., and
tn bone. His wound IS q serious
one. but not fatal unless The artery
IS injured. The shot disabled him
and left him helpless near the prison
/ door.
Matt, Pixley, one of the propri-
etOrs of the Warm Springs Hotel,
and one of the noble5t young meu
Of the country, hearing the firing.
and imagining the cause, seized a
8 shooter, and, in company with
Perasich. rushed into the prison
ward to assist the officers. The con
victs We're still inside theguard room.
firing through the main door OF
the buildinG at I~saacs, NewhOuse
and Perasich. Pixley rushed up to
the window and commenced firing
at the prisoners inside, when Charles
Jones, Il 10 year young man from
White Pine. Ared at him through
the window. THE ball, probably
from a Henry RE, carried away two
panes Of glass and struck Pixler
Just below the left eye, passing en-
tirelv through his head. H fell
upon the stone porch in front Of the
prison-dead.
c. W. Burgesser, bar keeper for
Pixley, also rushed into the fray,
and met with some hair-breadth es-
capes. A ball shaved close by each
ear, and a third shot struck his pan
falcons in the front of the crotch
and tore away the whole seat OF both
pants and drawers.
Another guard, a little Frenchman
whose name, we regret to say. We
have been unable to learn, fought
heroically to the last. and escaped
without a scratch. He fired a num-
Der of shots-all he had-and then
rushed into the crowd and dealt
many telling blows. This he kept
up until the prisoners were outside
the outer wall, regardless of the
shower of shots that whistled about
him and cut his clothes into shreds.
All accounts of the affair condemn
in the strongest terms the conduct of
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