The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-20
DONE BY DARING.
(Continued from F,irst PC

| further back than last Sunday, I thinls,
when we had the scuff1ing and disorder
in the dining room, as told in the State
Journal They kicked on the pigs feet
food. We had enough certainly There
We're two barrels of them. They we.ss
| larger than usual and if they run short
in number there was plenty in bulk.
Here's the storekeepers acquisitions
for Sunday, showing what they had TO
eat:
Forty-three bushels of potatoes
Thirty-five pounds of coffee
Ten pounds of corn starch.
One thousand four hundred pounds of
-four
one hundred and eighty pounds OF
oatmeal
Ninety gallons of milk.
Forty bushels potatoes.
One hundred and seventy-f1ve pounds
prunes.
Fifty pounds sugar.
one barrel syrup.
Five pounds tea
THE whole credit amounted to $109,-
81 1000 people were fed.
when the outbreak started I imagine
the men were just like a lot of boys
following a circus The leaders went off
and the others followed to see Wha.
would happen. Many of these were not
in it at heart but went along to see"
Strategy and. daring broke up the
mutiny at the state penitentiary- The
trick was turned by the prison OTf1C1alS
in the middle of the night, which makes
it more of a marvel than ever, because
it was one of the most serious prison
outbreaks on record in the United States
Two hundred and eighty four convicts,
with fourteen captured guards, were in
the mine thirty-Six hours, without food
and scant water. Eight armed officers
subsequently reinforced by seven others,
captured the outfit at the foot of the
shaft after a pitched battle against a
hundred cOnVicts. Two cOnVictS fell
then the mob fell back and was driven
into a breast of the mine StragglerS
scattered over the mine in fight, and
fifteen were left down when the round
up was abandoned.
Warden Tomlinson's determination to
storm the mine came suddenly. Con-
Wet Graham, who climbed the air shaft,
brought an alarming report at 10 O'Clock,
deciding the warden on immediate ac-
ton. Desperate and weakening, some
convictS were reported to be preparing
to torture two of their hostages and send
up an ear or finger as a visible sign
warning the warden to yield
Mr.. Tomlinson acted at once. The
men had the cage blocked at the bottom
of the shaft. He had been allowing the
convicts to initiate all negotiations, re-
plying only to communications they sent
up. Now he wrote a note, tied it to
stick, and dropped it down the shaft
He asked them to send up a conference
committee. They sent four men at
once.
up. On the descending cage were the
eight guards Each guard had a A re-
volver. When the cage struck bottom
they faced a mob of hundred surprised
prisoners, who formed for resistance,
nevertheless, armed with picks and bars.
stand back" ordered the guards, but
their command was not Obeyed. and the
cOnvicts would not surrender, the guards
say.
They opened fire on the mob and
routed it.
At the same time at the top of the
shaft the capture of the convicts depu-
tation took place. Warden TomllnSon
saws the faces of the four men were
wreathed in smiles as their heads ap-
peared a few feet below the top level
When the cage stopped with a slam con-
sternation succeeded happiness The
mutineers' committee looked straight
into the barrels of half a dozen Win
chesters.
Hands up. marehl''
The men We're as much surprised as
their fellows 100 feet below.
you've never seen eight such long
arms as shot up in the air right then
and there remarked TOmlinSOn in tell
ing it "They heard the popping going
on below. and knew the game was up"
The same cage was Immediately
dropped back with seven more guards
upon it. When this reinforcement ar
rived, a detail of officers set off for the
mule barn and released the hostages |
The guards who had been in captivity
were sent up first. 1t was almost mid |
night. They had been prisoners for 36 |
hours on parched corn rations- They |
were grimy and tough looking, but
happy. They were instructed not to |
talk, but were sent home at once to their |
anxious families. No time was lost by |
them in so doing.
Guard Kirsley stopped long enough |
to describe the captive guards feelings
and give confirmation of the plot -
harm them. He said:
I'VE We're pretty well frightened last |
night We thought they were going to /
attack US. I had only a penknife as /
weapon They would not let us send Up |
messages, only such as they dictated, /
and we don't know what they added to
them. We could get little sleep on the |
hard rocks, and 1t was pretty tough ex-
perience. We were considerably fright I
ended. We heard they were going to at
tack US I think they had it planned to t
jump on US; they were pretty desperate. I
THE first we knew of the rescue was
when a fellow came running and told us
that there were men at the bottom of /
the shaft. You see-the cages are double
and one is up when the other is down I
They would lock the down cage, and it I
could be operated only when they pei
mitted it. Somehow, the warden got the I
cage loose, and sent the men down. I
When we heard of this from the convict. /
we thought it was ruse to get US sep
arated, and we did not believe 1t. But /
pretty soon I saw the brass buttons, ana I
you can bet they were the sweetest thil 3
/ have seen in long time. The fellnw +
that told us said that a gang of men !
came down, and that they were firing
gatling guns down the passages The
strikers melted away entirely
mot all the miners were mixed up in
this There were some desperate men
who made the others join We guards
all greed that we would stand by those
who were made to join, and we know
their names. We will give all that u
the warden. But I tell you no men ever
did drawer thing than those fellows
did who went down for u.s.