Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-08
TOM WELLS THERE
Connecticut Prison Directors on Way to Scene of Mutiny.
noUNTED GUARDS SEARCHING.

Eor the Prisoners Who Escaped
 They Will All Be Recaptured, It Is
 Thought, or Shot Down-Warden
 AicClaughrey Was In Kansas City
 Making Arrangements for Annual
 Convention of Prison Reform Asso-
 citation.
 Leavenworth, Kan. Nov S.-Forty mounted guards are searching the country for 8 radius of five miles around the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth to-day for the 26 convicts who succeeded in escaping late yesterday. The country is wild and rough and affords ample oppor- tunity to escape, and as all of the con VtctS are desperate men and armed, conflicts will doubtless result before they are captured.
 The net known result of the mutiny and the fight with the guards was. one convict killed and four guards shot or otherwise hurt. but it is believed that many of the fleeing convicts received wounds from bullets sent after them by pursuing guards.
 The dead: Quinn Fort, desperate criminal from the Indian Territory. who Is believed to have been the ring leader of the outbreak.
 The wounded: Joseph B. Wal drupe, prison guard, shot in forehead and breast, condition still critical.
 Arthur Trelford, captain of the guard shot in leg. not serious.
 c, B. Burrows, guard, shot in neck, slight.
 Andrew Leonard. guard. leg broken.
 It develops that the mutiny was planned several months ago. but the men had never found q favorable op- porttnity to carry 1t into effect until yesterday.
 The convicts chose the favorable moment Of the day. when many Of the guards acting as foremen of construc- ton of the new cell house were un- armed.
 Since last night the old prison has presented an air of activity it has not known for years. As soon as the alarm was given guards were formed in marching order and mounted men. armed to the teeth. were drawn up in front of the main entrance. Most of the guards were old plainsmen. The escaped cenyicts were counted the most desperate criminals in the soutls- west and the guards started out on their hunt with a full realization of this fact
 The scene Of the mutiny, however, being some distance from the prison proper, the cenyicts have secured q good start. and aided by the rough. wooded country, they had, before dark ness fell, placed a good gap between themselves and their pursuers. The guards at best could make but a de sultery pursuit and were compelled to await daylight to take up the search.
 The alarm was sent out in all dlrec- tions. the officials of Kansas City, Atchison, St Joseph, Topeka. Leaven- worth, being asked to keep the police On the lookout, and all night in each of the cities armed police and detec- fives patrolled the outskirts.
 During the night reports came in from all directions of thefts Of horses and vehicles, clothing and food by the convicts and as the report spread that the convicts were at liberty citizens in the outlying districts became terror stricken and barred their doors.
 Early to-day an increased number of guards. armed and mounted, were started out from the penitentiary.
 It is believed that all the conyicts will ultimately be captured if not overtaken by the guards and shot. Each prisoner had undergone an ex- animation under the Bertillon system and to-day these descriptions were mailed to every chief of police in the country.
 Warden R. W. McClaughrey was in Kansas City when the mutiny broke out. arranging for the annual conven. ton of the National Prison Reform as sociation which is to convene there tomorrow. He arrived home at the prison about three hours later and i'm mediately set to work to recapture the eonvicts-
 'sI have not completed my investi- gation,'' said he to-day, /" but am of the opinion that the outbreak was not due to the fault of any of the guards 7
 CARNEGID LORD RECTOR.