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Show HAND TO I1ASD. A Desperate Strnrele Between' Soldiers and a Convict Gang. Madrid, Nov. 16. Convicts in the Tarragona Tarra-gona prison mutinied this morning, overpowering over-powering the, guards and prepared, with outside assistance, 'to effect a general escape. The, troops were :hastily summoned, and when the convicts refused to return to their cells the soldiers fired on them. They advanced ad-vanced on the troops, however, with all sorts of . improvised .weapons, and a desperate hand to hand fight ensued. Some of the soldiers fell back, reloaded and as opportunity opportu-nity offered fired into the convicts, whowere finally overcome, not, however, till nine of them were killed and sixteen wounded. |