The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-11-13
MAKE A HOLE ruHoUoa rnE WALL

MAKE A HOLE rHRoCoa THE WALL
The place was guarded when I arrived, bu
the convics had made hole about eieh,
inches across-not large enough for MAJ
to 20 through. The north vail Wa thea
| all in flames The firing from the stockad<
! guard at No. vas constantly kept up BY
Shrader xml Donahoe with considerable
effect One negro chopped on the wall un.
Ill he was shot through the heart. His
name is not known.
James Donahoe, guard at No. l, staid on
the stockade guard house until the flames
had reached the same,
ALL THE TINE SHOOTING,
and had to be called down before he would
leave.
When Donahoe shot the negro Who was
chopping the wall, he broke into laugh
and said: "There, he will quit chopping
now"
POWDER House.
There is stored in this house about six
hundred kegs Of powder. then turned
NV attention to this. knowing il that ex-
ploded that there would not lie enough Of
any of us left TO stop . watch. / took
trusty convict, George Washington, and
carried water and kept the building vet
until il was out of danger.
Capt. Todd and the whole guard force
then marched the convicts to the cosd shed,
preparatory to putting them into the mines
ioI security.
From the time the lamp Was thrown,
until the whole revolt was quoted, It did
not exceed eight minutes. The whole los.
by the fire will not fall much short Of s., 800.
| am loser TO the amount Of 500, or
in articles OF clothing and FUR
private property.
PARTIAL LIST OF THE WOUNDED.
The papers, books and rolls Of the stock
ade were all burned, and il Vas impossible
to get full list OF the killed and wounded.
Dave Brown jumped from the third story
Of the building and dislocated his ankle.
This is the horse-thief that Maj. J. c. Wood
arrested near Springfield, NO., in July,
1876. He was, at that time, an escaped
prisoner from the Warrensburg Jail. He
is desperate man.
James Kelly disloca,ed an ankle-he
Jumped.
Andrew Abner, also = jumper, slightly
hurt in the back.
Thos. King, a jumper. dislocated an
mike and bone in the leg broken.
William Edwards. shot in the shoulder.
This man walked from the stockade to the
,ompany's Office, and laid on the floor
While the ball was being extracted. He
oppressed a perfect willingness to have the
,aIl cut out, but wanted the chunk Of cold
cad after it was out. His wound 10 not
eriOus.
John Edwards, injured in the thigh, and
lip dislocated bv jumping.
George Dean, injured in the spine, from
he effects of third story jump. This
nan was considerably burned.
James Dew asier, sent to the penitentiary
rom johnson county, di-lUcated an ankle,
nd one bone broken, by jumping. His
crm will expire in Eve days.
Thos. Long, dislocated ankle.
WOUNDED. COLOKED.
George jones feigned an injury in his
read basket-claimed to be in great
ain. In a short time he was all right and
a no pain.
Mr.. Clark injured in the spine By jump
ng.
John Majors badly burned-cons'der-
BILE skin slipped of. He will get we'll.
John Williams, hog thief from Pettis,
ably burned.
J. H. Brown crippled in the foot-slight-
= hurt.
Geo. Vaughan, shot in the fleshy part Of
he leg below the knee.
Eight more whose names could not be
earned, are slightly hurt-twenty-thr in
II were taken to Jefferson City to the peni-
,ntiary hospital.
The following IL a diagram Of the build ,
* inside the stockade, showing the three
oors /: