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Show MUTINY STIRS PRISON MINE LANSING, Kan., June 18 (HP) Rioting broke out today in the coal mine 'at the Kansas state prison when 380 mutinous prison- M ers tried to rush the gun cage 720 feet below ground. They were driven back with tear gas. Four guards, equipped with gas masks, were in the gun cage when the prisoners surged into the room at the foot of the shaft and tried to fight their way into the cage with its supplies of guns ammunition and gas. The guards immediately unleashed un-leashed their gas guns and as the acrid fumes spread through the low ceilinged room and passages the prisoners fell back. Those in the cage included O. M.. Johnson, who early today fought off five prisoners with gas when they tried to pile coal cars into the cage. With Johnson' were Robert H. Murray, Fred Murray, John Christian Chris-tian and John Stewart. i The gun cage rests at the foot of the air shaft, only passage to the mine now open, and is so situated sit-uated that those inside it can rake the mine level with guns if necessary. |