The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-20
DONE BY DARING.
Warden TomlinsOn COnquers
Mutinons COnTicts.
Descends Into the Mine With
Armed Guards.
TWO CONYICTS SHOT.
Desperate Miners Submitted
Only Before Bullets.
One Hundred Massed at Bottom
Of Shaft.
ARMED WITH PICKS.
FusilIade OF Shots Caused Them
to Surrender.
Guards We're All Rescued and
Uninjured.
One Hundred Massed at Bottom
Of Shaft.
FusiIIade Of Shots Caused Them
to Surrender.
Guards We're All Rescued and
Uninjured.

Lansing, March z0.-warden TomlIr-
son won a decided victory over the mu-
tinors convicts in the penitentiary mine,
but IL required heroic measures and two
convicts were shot but not fatally. At
mid7ight last night the trouble was over
the 10 guards rescued and 26s Of the
2S4 convicts were safe in their cells
Ralph Clark. a 20 year man was shot
IN the forearm and elbow and viii pro-
baby lose his arm and Alfred Hatfield.
a 10 year man was shot in the leg but
not seriously
There were 100 convicts massed at the
bottom of the shaft and the wounded
men were part of the crowd. They were
armed with picks and crow bars and the
guards opened FIRE as soon as they reach
ed the bottom
Fifteen Of the miner convicts could not
be found They were supposed to be IN
hiding or had become exhausted from
hunger
The hnal coup was a brilliant and dar-
Ing dash into the black depths of the
mine by a party OF guards commanded
by Warden Tomlinson in person
The strike which ended last night be-
gan at noon Monday, when the men re-
fused to work longer. took the guards as
prisoners and sent word to the surface
that they would treat with the warden
DAl-l through a COInIIlLLee. ana IN WIZ
ing Since then they have receded n
their terms several times. TIL finally they
sent word that they would come out If
their punishment would be overlooked
and would waive all their demands They
were told that no terms would be mada
whatever, that 1t was a. case of plain
surrender. The last message from the
mine came when. early last evening, The
miners sent up Guard AIcShane, who was
sick.
This action was taken as a sure sign
of a weakening. and when miner clam
bered 400 OF the 720 feet up the air shaft
10 the cage. and told his story. how the
men were out Of light. and had no food
and only some water, brackish, that
they had found and boiled TOmlinSon
knew that the end of the night was at
hand But he was in no hurry. He bided
his time. 1T was after 10 O'Clock at night
when he took a notion to reconnoiter. He
left his comfortable Office on a MESA ge
that, there was no sign to those not in
the secret. till near midnight.
Then came the news. a party of nine
men, grimy. hungry and tough-loobing,
but very happy, ssed through the maia
builqing and out Of the front gate Of the
prison. Many Of them broke into a run
here They were the rescued guards
homeward bound. and they were eager
TO greet their families. Soon the rest ot
the Ia We're out and after that came
some Of the miners
And then the story became known of
the quelling Of the desperadoes who for
IS hours had held the mine as a fortress
and had just been conquered. It seems
that the warden. when he went to the
shaft house about 10 o'clock. had an ink
Hing that the miners were weakening He
gathered two forces Of volunteers from
among his surface guards and th4ze
forces went into the mine. one through
the air shaft and the other through Tie
hoist.
All these men were armed Down irt0
the pitch blackness they went taking
theic lives in their hands The shafts e~d
in little clearings. and in them the cor
victs had gathered. As the armed forces
entered the little circles the miners Who
were gathered there melted into dark
ness The guards gathered the irnpris-
oned guards together and sent them to
the surface.
The miners were gathered next and in
squads were sent up. They were thor
oughly cowed. Only a few shots were
needed TO break the strike. when the nasn
first landed in the dark. but no one vas
hurt. The ringleaders were taken and
imprisoned first, and then the rest Were
corralled- The warden went down ard
bossed the job he had started and car
Tied out SUCCESSFULLY