The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-15

severely. Mr. Dent, in addition to his
other terrible wounds, was finally felled
to the ground by blow over the head
with chopper. Sandford received fresh
wounds, Warders Burton, Clarke, Savage,
and Reading received cuts and bruises,
and others were beaten with carrying
sticks used by the prisoners in bringing
water into the Jail. All this occurred
within two or three minutes, and as soon
as the Superintendent and warders mad
been overpowered the mutineers rushed
for the gate leading to the work-yard.
This gate was guarded on the inside only
by native peon, who was knocked down,
and this avenue of escape thus thrown
open to them. They came in pelf-mell,
and, running to the toolchest bTCke
IA open, those who were unarmed
here providing themselves Nth
weapons. The door leading from
the woodward to the engineers office,
which could be fastened on the outside,
was we'll served by the convict poems,
who secured and backed up the wicket
gate with all their strength, and, being
baked in this avenue of escape, some of
the prisoners seized ladders and poles,
which they placed against the outer wall
on either side, and clambering up, still
retaining their axes and weapons, leaped
from the top at the risk of fracturing
their limbs; but the main, body of them
rushed back into the yard whence they
had come, as though, elated with their
success so far, they thought to get pos
session of The entire jail. The European
prisoners, mostly soldiers and sailors,
begged hard to be let loose to assist the
Jail authorities in putting down the up
rising, and the gate was opened by Mr.
Lamb, the Jaiier. The alarm had also
been communicated to the European
guard three of whom came in with their
rifles. A soldier named FELTON,, who is
undergoing Imprisonment for killing a
police peon with his belt, we arc told,
seized rifle from one of the guard, and
with another soldier named Headly, who
followed his example, was enabled to
save the life of Jailer Lamb, who had
been borne down by two Chinese, who,
with axes uplifted, would in another sec
ond have hurled him into eternity had not
these two soldiers providentially shot
them dead on the instant. The Euro
pean prisoners were armed with muskets
and ammunition, and then the work OF
slaughter began. The mutineers, des-
perate savages though they were, found
the European prisoners terrible enemy
to deal with; few attempted to make
stand, but the muskets did deadly execu-
ton among them and they were shot
down or bayoneted by the Europeans,
whom the sight of blood seemed to in
furiate even more than it had the Chi
nese These were driven back, and took
refuge in the work-yard; and while
some, still armed, sought to avail them
selves of last chance to escape by
climbing the ladders numbers hid them
selves in the bCildings-some beneath
the furnace of the boiler, some in the
drains, some among the rubbish scat
tered aboyt The place. The lighting in
side the Jail lasted some time. From
the various accounts it appears that
nearly half an hour elapsed from the
outbreak before the mutineers were fully
overcome. Mr. Dent died of his wounds
on the following evening. The wounded
European warders were, when the mail
left, recovering. Fourteen OF the native
sub warders were wounded, two of them
seriously Fifteen of the prisoners were
killed and twenty four wounded.