Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-12
coNvicTS IN MUTlNY.
overpower Guards and Escape From
Prison-One Man Killed.

| Leavenworth, Kas., Nov. S.-While
Warden R. w. McClaughry was absent
yesterday afternoon 400 convicts mu-
tinted and seized arms at the new fed
eral prison. A long and desperate
battle with the thirty guards followed.
! AS result one convict was shot dead
one was injured, four guards We're
wounded by the mutineers and twenty
isix desperadoes escaped into the
woods. The freed convicts are now
fleeing toward Easton. Kan, holding
up farmers. stripping them of their
clothing and, displacing their own pri-
son stripes with the stolen garments,
are seeking to outstrip pursuers by
| further flight on horses captured from
the farmers.
Following is list of the dead and
injured:
The dead;
Ford, Quinn, convict from Ryan, 1.
T., shot dead by Guard ]. B. Waldrupe.
The injured:
]. B. Waldrupe, guard, shot in head
and neck by convicts; serious.
Arthur Treelford, guard, shot in the
leg by a convict; not serious.
G. q. Burrows, guard, shot twice in
+
/ Andrew Leonard, guard, leg broken
in grand rush of convicts to escape at
main entrance to stockade.
i Otter, convict, shot by guard,
but managed to escape with fugitives.
Can't Follow Without orders.
Twenty-four members of the Fourth
cavalry fastened to the scene of the
trouble, but when they arrived the
convicts had escaped and the soldiers
could not participate in the chase with,
out orders from their superior.
Forty armed guards from the feder-
al prison are in pursuit of the fugi
tives.
The new United States prison is be
ing built two miles southeast of here
and the 400 prisoners from the federal
prison were at work all day When
the mutiny began the rebelling prison
ers had only two revolvers. These had
been secreted in one of the walls OF
the building. There are two walls
partly completed and the remainder Of
of the site of the building is surround
ed by high wooden stockade. Gus
Parker of Ardmore, one of the ring
i. leaders of the mutiny, got the revolv
ers from their place of concealment
and under cover of weeds returned tt
! the gang. He passed one of the re
: volvers to Frank Thompson, a negro
from South McAlester, Ok, who Sc
creted it on his person.
Hold Up the Superintendent.
When 7. E. Kinds, superintendent o
construction, and three unarmet
guards prepared to round up the mel
, at the end of the days work the two
, armed convicts covered them with re
volvers and encouraged by other mu
tinous convicts forced the men to wall
before them to the northwest corne
of the stockade, where they expecte,
: to make a rush through an opening.
On the outside of the stockade wal
an armed guard and the convicts werI
met at the opening by C. e. Burrows,
guard, who fought them back, but VIII,
received two shots in the neck. Thu
convicts then rushed over to the soutl
t wall to another opening and were me
r by Arthur Treelford, an armed guar,
: who was in charge of all the conyicts
: Treelford resisted the convicts and wa
2 shot twice, but not dangerously wound
S ed.
4 Twenty-six Escape in Rush.
l Defeated in their attempt to escap
: at this point. the men rushed to tn
guardhouse, temporary frame struct
ure where the arms are kept. TIL
guards from the outside rushed in a
, this point and drove the convict
, away from the guardhouse. j. P. Wa
drupe, a guard, shot and killed For
) Quinn, from Ryan, |. L. The prison
, ers then made grand rush for tn
> main entrance and twenty-siX of ther
succeed in escaping.
The convicts in their flight, compel
ed Superintendent Kinds to go wit
t. them, and he was not allowed to II
$ turn until they had gone almost tw
miles. w. F. Peaslee, one of the fug
tives, who has only fifteen month
+: more to serve, deserted the band
Y few moments after Kinds was relea:
y ed. The two men reached here at a
(, most the same time. They reporte
g that the fugitives intended to attemr
}. to reach the rough country southeas
lof here by travelling in small bands.