Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-09-18
OF TM ESCAPED
PRISONERS D.
tFrom our Ertra Of tbs mOrnfng.,

From our Extra Of this mornfng.l
GOLD HILL, Monday, Sept. 1873
O'Clock 4. x.-At 8 o'clock last night
Gold Hill and Virginia City were
thrown Into q terrible state Of excite
ment BY a telegram from Carson City
which announced that at about 8
O'Clock last evening q number Of pris-
oners In the State Prison made a forci-
BILE entry into the armory Of the prison,
obtained a number OF Henry rifles and
ammunition, sud from the skylight
Of the armory deliberately shot
the guard Ave 4 In ! number,
who were stationed around the walls
Of the prison. The report further
stated that a, h~and.to-hand fight then
ensued between the Warden, 1t. Gov.
Frank Denver, and some Of his assist
ants, and the armed prisoners, In the
upper part Of the main prison building,
near the armory. The conflict Is de-
scrlbed as follows: On hearing the re-
ports Of, the u Henry rifles, which
subdued the guard on the walls,
Denver and Bob Dedn,nn, clerk In
the ofioo, rushed up stairs, at the top
Of which they were met by q prisoner,
who iourished large bowie or carv-
Ing knife and made several lunges at
Denver, who was entirely unarmed,
and he! would doubtless have been
assassinated but for the assistance In
stantIy rendered BY Bob Dedman, who
fought the man with a chair, breaking
his arm and knocking him senseless to
the floor. At this juncture, another
prisoner arrived, and with a pistol shot
the Warden In the feshy part Of one
of his thighs 4; when; another prisoner
appeared 'with'a Henry rifle, and with
the butt, end of which he struck the
Warden over the head, knocking him
senseless, and inhicting a serious II not
fatal wound. The prisoners seemed to
have remained up In the armory until
they were fully equipped, when they
escaped out Of the sky-light on to the
roof, and thence out on to the walls ct
the prison on the south, and escaped
down 10 the ground outside.
Thirty ptlsonsrse ESCAPED, each armed
and equipped with Henry rifles. Zone
Of them, whose arm had been broken
by Dedman, subsequently returned,
and was again confined Some OF the
prisoners had shackles OH their ankles,
most Of which have been found on
their trail, broken off as the prisoners
were escaping through the sagebrush,
some dhtancS from the prison. {
. Matt. Pixley, o young man who
kept the Warm Springs Hotel, next
door to the prison, in going into the
prison, yard when the guard was fired
upon, was killed by the prisoners.
One report says that he wal killed
with a large, heavy stone thrown from
the top Of the wall; another report
says that be shot at one! of the pris-
oners, who turned and shot him dead
with hts Henry ride. 0 tPlxley was! q
young married man, and his wife, on.
seeing. the dead body other husband,
went into spasms, apd early this MORN
Ing It was feared the terrible shock
would prove fatal r- sr.-r,.r' -r,!l r,'i
At 8 o'clock last night the Suite
authorities ~telegraphed to General
Batterman, at Virginia City, to come
down with his military company, the
National Guards. The Guards, forty
in number, were soon ready, and. a
locomotive and passenger train being
placed at their service, they left at .
o'clock and arrived in Carson at seven
minutes past 10. They Immediately
marched out to the prison, where they
remained as guard7at night. r,.rf
The prisoners left In n squad, and
doubtless went up the Carson river in
the direction Of Genoa. Many Of the
people of Carson city and ranchmen
kept on their track during the night,
as the report Of firearms were heard
occasionally in;tlie direction of Genoa.
Early this morning a large posse of
armed men started on their track from
the prison. . Doubtless some Of the
prisoners stole horses from the ranches
up the Carson river, and have struck
for the tall timber on Lake Tahoe,
Hope Valley, the head waters Of Car
SON and Walker rivers. ID
George Downey, sBen Lackey and
Thomas Harkin, the three best de-
tectiyes In the State, started after the
fugtiyes early this morning, also
armed With Henry rifles.
Tie escaped prisoners are a desperate
and heartisss set5of s~conndrols, and
they will not hesitate to kill anybody
who may hinder their escape. What.
makes It particularly dangerous to
arrest them Is the terrible and fatal
weapons with which asyhafe armed