The weekly soliphone., 1917-06-07
STORM PUTS END
 TO PRISON RIOT

Joliet, H., June 5.--Atfter one prisoner had been killed, eight se- verely injured and several others hurt today during three riotous outbreaks at the state prison by I160O convicts who objected to new rules enforced by Warden Bowen, rainstorm drove the last 200 of the mutineers to the cell house, al though they had stubbornly refused to retreat before the bayonets of national guardsmen, who quelled the outbreak.
 Fires set within the prison build ing destroyed the prison yard office building, the curio room, the office building and portions of the chap el, the foundry oil house, the lum- Der store building, rattan shop, chair shop, entailing a total loss of $2OO,OOO.
 Don Flaherty, life-term convict from Chicago, died of injuries sus- tained in jumping from burning li- brary.
 Injured: Peter Waters, prison guard eye put out with brick thrown by rioters; William Ray mond, guard hit by ricocheting bullet; Michael OConnell, life-term convict, probably fatally injured by jumping from library window; Walter Weed, convict, injured in jumping from burning building; Walter OBrien, formerly Chicago police sergeant, hurt i'll jumping from building; James Williams, con vict, stabbed by rioter while fight ing fire; John Murphy life convict, said to be leader of riot, skull fractured, probably fatally, by guard with clubbed rifle.
 There were three riots during the day and the disorder was almost continuous. All offenders are lock ed in cells tonight and Warden Bowen said the strictest discipline would be enforced until the unruly spirit had been smothered.
 The first trouble came at break fast when 900 convicts mutinied lover an order issued by Warden Bowen that thereafter prisoners should not receive visitors except relatives. The men began throw ing the tableware about the room, breaking furniture and driving the guards to cover.
 The chair factory was fired about three hours later. The prison fire department was driven back by the convicts when an attempt was made to extinguish the blaze.
 By free use of the fire hose the jrevolters were driven back and the flames put out
 Il The mutterings of only partly lcowed convicts caused the warden Ito ask for state troops. The mili- ltiamen in Joliet are in federal ser vice and an order had to be Ob- tained from army headquarters in iChicago. By the time the soldiers arrived fires were set in several places and it looked for time as if the prison would be burned to the ground.
 Capt Hamlet c. Ridgway order led the soldiers to fix bayonets and drive the men back, while the fire department combatted the flames. Capt. Ridgway and Warden Bowen walked toward the threatening con victs, commanding them to stand !, back in a corner of the prison yards. The rebels refused to budge land shouted threats at the officers. But when the troops advanced, the front ranks of the convicts broke before the bayonets and all the out laws backed to the prison walls.
 The men were told they must return quietly to the cellhouse or be fired on. With the flames cracking near them the men re- fused to yield, apparently hoping that the fire would get the better of the fire department and release all to the open fields.
 As the flames began to die be- meath the hose of the firemen, many of the revolters gave up. In the course of a couple of hours, all but about 200 of the convicts were under lock and key. The remain i der sullenly stood their ground, as l the officers would not fire on them except as a last resort. l Rain finally began to fall in l torrents, and the prisoners at last l surrendered to gain shelter from lthe clements