Omaha daily bee., 1912-10-14
ONE rs KILLED BY DEBUT
Flee to Hills, Where Desperate
Battle. Takes Place.
CITIZENS ARE REPORTED SHOT
Appeal Made to Governor Carey for
State Troops.
FIGHT RACES INSIDE WALLS
Guards and Remaining Prisoners
Believed In Conflict, While
Citizens Are In state
of Terror.

RAwLINS, Wyo., Oct. ia fresh out
break occurred at the penitentiary here
this afternoon, between twenty ana
thirty prisoners escaping. marchins
through the xfain streets Of the town, and
after killing one citizen, badly woundins
another. and having one OF their number
killed by a deputy. fled to the hills sur
rounding the town, where desperate
battle is now waged between the con-
victs and citizens.
Governor Carey has been requested to
press the national guard Into service
Yesterday twenty convicts escaped and
nine Of them had been recaptured when
todnys uprising occurred
1t is reported that seven citizens have
been killed In the battle with escaped
convicts. Shots are heard at intervals
from inside the penitentiary. and 1t Is
believed battle Is in progress inside the
walls between guards and the remaining
prisoners.
A second escaped convict has Just been
killed by the posse. Telegrams are be-
Ing sent to- Governor Carey, who IL now
at sheridan, asking for state troops. The
town is in panic and citizens, heavily
armed. are guarding their own houses
and the homes Of those who are In the
hills battling with the convlcts. Women
and children are being gathered In the
central portion Of the towns.
Saturdays Outbreak.
CHEYENNE, wyo, Oct. l2-(Special
Telegram. within two weeks OF the
Ilynching of Jim wigfalI, a negro assault
fiend, by convicts in the Wyoming peni-
tentiary at Rawlins nineteen convicts
yesterday made successful break
for liberty, beating board out OF the
prison stockade and scattering into the
rugged country near the prison walls.
Guards on the walls were not aware
ithat the break had been made niftil
commotion arose among seventy other
convicts In the compound who refused
TO take advantage OF the opportunity to
escape. BY that time the fugitives were
gone.
Tonight nine have been captured and
posses are securing all the surrounding
country One party of the convicts met
la kTOCeTy WdBOH lOuuNN WAth ceffNNs'
near the hills captured 1t and drove into
the hills, abandoning the wagon. but
taking it's contents with them Other
fugItIves met TRUSTEES returning from
stone quarry and asked them to join IN
the flight, but they refused
Several of The fugitives are armed with
hammers ana hatchets, with which they
were working in the compound. Among
them Is Jim Butch Dalton, life term
murderer, who is accounted the most
desperate of the men. Warden Felix
Aston. who was in his office when the
break occurred. Is leading posse. Dalton
formerly was a member Of the Whitney
gang of bank robbers.s
| Town in state of Terror.
4 The town is patrolled by armed citi-
zens tonight and men and women sit in
their homes with weapons close at hand
listening for intruders The fugitives are
known to be the most desperate OF the
penitentiary's inmates. led by the des-
perado Dalton. reported at first as cap
tured. and will take long chance to
secure weapons and clothes.
A reign of terror began at o'clock
this afternoon when from the penItentiary
burst a bedlam of shouts of convicts and
Through the streets of the northern part
Of the town nineteen close cropped, hard
featured men. In prison uniform. ran In
a body.
Horses tethered in front Of saloons were
grabbed by the leaders and bore them
at breakneck speed through the town and
away to the hills. outdstancing the
guards that closed in on the rear Of the
Ifugitives after losing precious minutes In
vestigating the cause of the uproar in
the cells.
Nine Convicts Captured.
Four of the fugitives hiding in canyon
north OF Rawlins were caught half an
4 hour after the outbreak and fifth was
captured making for the railroad. Three
were cornered in another canyon, a mile
west OF the town, by mounted pursueFs,
but have not been taken. The guards
returning with the five prisoners were
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