Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-10-24
PRISONERS INAR|OT
SECOND OUTBREAK OCCURRED
SUNDAY AT WYOMING PEN
lTENTlARY.
TWENTY HAD ESCAPED DAY BEFORE
RawIins Was Panic Stricken and
Called on Governor for Aid-Two
Men Killed While Others
Escape.

Rawlins, Wyo.-A battle ragged SUN
day in the state penitentiary. Locked
inside the walls with hundreds of mu-
tinous prisoners, a few guards were
fighting desperately to restore order,
and prevent a wholesale prison deliv-
cry. Camped outside the walls a force
of citizens, heavily armed, was ready
to drive back the convicts if they MUIR
dered the remaining guards and make
a rush through the gates. Shouts and
occasional shots told the story of des-
perate fighting within the walls.
Another battle was in progress in
the hills south of Rawlins between a
posse of citizens and from 20 to 40
escaped prisoners. Two men have
been killed in the streets of Rawlins,
one is desperately wounded, and w
convicts have been recaptured, follow
ing the escape of from 10 to 30 pris-
oners this afternoon.
Ask Governor for Aid.
The town is in panic. Frantic tele-
grams were sent to Governor Carey at
Sheridan, imploring him to send state
troops to protect the citizens. He is
now here.
T~ownspeople, barricaded in their
homes, or, heavily armed, are patrol
ing the streets, guarding their own
homes and the houses of those en-
gagged in the man hunt in the hills or
the vigils of the prison walls.
Quiet Finally Restored.
Quiet was restored late in the day
following the escape of from 10 to 80
prisoners and the battle inside the
walls. The mutinous prisoners have
been subdued and locked in their cells.
Marshal Hayes returned to Rawlins
from the manhunt in the hills, bring
ing one of the men who escaped whom
he had shot and wounded. Two of the
20 escaping Saturday have been recap
tured. The men who escaped Sunday
were led by Antoine Pazo, a life-term
murderer, who a few months ago in
the prison dining room seized a knife
and almost disemboweled a fellow
prisoner. Pazo stabbed a liveryman
after the escape this afternoon, and
was shot and killed by an officer.
Fusillade Inside Walls.
Tut outbreak Sunday was the Sec
ond within "a hours. About 3 o'clock
Saturday afternoon 20 prisoners es-
capped and nine were recaptured.
Sunday afternoon a party of life
termers overpowered the dollhouse
keeper, took his keys and released
their comrades from the cells.
Every prisoner willing to risk a bat
tie with the guards made a rush for
the gates.
A moment later the citizens of the
town heard a fusillade of shots inside
the walls. A bedlam of shouts and
yells echoed from the prison.
A few seconds later more than a
dozen men dashed down the main
street, armed with guns and knives.
Holding the few citizens on the street
at bay with revolvers they charged
into a livery barn, held up the proprie-
tor and saddled and bridled the horses.
A huge negro with a revolver was left
as guard on the outside. Charles
Stressner, a barber, had heard the
commotion and came down the street
with a shotgun. The negro shot him
through the head, killing him in
stantly.
Mexican Slabs Man; Shot.
At the sound of the shot the con-
victs swarmed from the barn, some
with stolen horses and some afoot.
A Mexican wantonly stabbed the
proprietor, severely wounding him,
and a few seconds later paid for the
deed with his life. Hugh Rogner, a
deputy sheriff, shot him twice, killing
him almost instantly.