Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-11-14
CONVICTS MUTINY.,
Twenty-Six Jailbirds Succeed in
Making Their Escape.
One Man was Killed and Five Injured
During Dash for Liberty by
Men Who Overpowered Their
Guards Robbed Farm-
ers After Escaping.

beavenworth, Kan, Nov. S.-One
man was killed, five others danger
ously wounded and &c desperate con-
Vlcts are at large, as result of a
mutlny late Thursday afternoon at
the site of the new United States
prison, two miles southeast of here,
where 400 prisoners from the federal
prison, in charge of 80 armed guards,
were at work.
When the trouble began the rebel
iious prisoners had only two revo1-
vers. These had been secreted in
one of the walls of the building by
some unknown person. Two walls
are partly completed and the remain
der of the site of the building is sur
rounded by high wooden stockade.
Gus Parker, of Ardmore, /. r., one of
the ringleaders of the mutiny. under
Pretense of necessity, walked to the
corner of the stockade, where the re-
volvers were concealed and under
cover of some weeds secured them
without being detected.
He returned to the gang and passed
one of the revolvers to Frank Thomp-
son, negro from South McAlester,-
L. T., who secreted it about his per-
son. When T. L. Kinds, superinten-
dent of construction, and three un-
armed guards prepared to round up
the. men at the end of the days work,
the two armed convicts covered them
with the revolvers and, encouraged by
the other mutinous convicts, forced
the men to walk before them TO the
northwest corner of the stockade,
where they expected to make a rush
through the opening. On the out
side of the stockade was an armed
guard and the convicts were met at
the opening by C. f. Burrows, a
guard who fought them back, but
who received two shots in the neck.
The convicts then rushed over to
the south wall to another opening
and were met by Arthur Treelford,
an armed guard, who is In charge of
all the convicts. Treelford resisted
the convicts and was shot twice, but
not dangerously wounded. Defeat
ed in their attempt to escape at this
point, the men rushed to the guard
house, a temporary frame structure,
where the arms are kept. The guards
from the outside rushed in at this
point and drove the convicts away
from the guard house. j. p. Waldrup,
a guard, shot and killed Ford Quinn,
from Ryan, l. L. The prisoners then
made grand rush for the main en-
trance and 26 of them succeeded IN
escaping. Most of the escaped men
are from Indian Territory. Closely
followed by the guards, the men ran
to a nearby forest and succeeded in
evading their pursuers.
The men went in the direction of
Easton, Kan, and it is reported here
that they have held up many farmers,
taking horses and clothing.
Andrew Leaven, a guard, is in the
hospital with broken leg He was
hurt as the prisoners were escaping.
One of the fugitives named Otter was
shot. The extent of his injuries is
unknown.
The convicts in their flight COM
PEELED +. E. Kinds, superintendent. of
construction, to go with them, and
he was not allowed to return until
they had gone almost two miles. w.
+. Peaslee, one of the fugitives, who
has only Is months more to serve. de-
serted the band a few moments after
Kinds was released. The two men
reached here almost the same time.
Twenty-four members of the
Fourth cavalry FASTENED to the scene
of the trouble, but when they arrived
the convicts had escaped and the SOL
diers could not participate in the
chase without orders from their
superior.
Forty armed guards from the fed
eral prison are in pursuit of the fugi-
tives.