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Show 1 Refusal of Man to Help Dig Escape Tunnel Proo-vokes Proo-vokes Fight. One May Die cf His Injuries, In-juries, Prison Officials Declare. Refusal of an interucd enemy alien in the Third 'war prison camp at Fort Douglas to take his turn at working : in an escape tunnel precipitated a miniature mini-ature battle with knives yesterday morning, in which three of the prisoners were more or less seriously wounded. , Two of the men are in- the war prison hospital in serious condition, and it is reported that one is likely to die. The third man is suffering from several gashes in his body, but - his condition is not considered serious. The three men involved in the cutting affray-'' -are Prisoners of War "Max"-Gunter, "Max"-Gunter, ' ' Frit. ' ' Fisher and " Wilhelm ' ' Borrsoiin. Gunter and Fisher are seriously seri-ously wounded. The fight, which occurred during the early hours of yesterday morning, brought to light the fact that another escape tunnel was in course of construction construc-tion inside the prison compound. The tunnel was found by the officers shortiy after the light and has been filled up. The prison officers had been suspicious that some of the prisoners were working work-ing on another tuunel, but had not been able to locate the workings. The affair of yesterday morning gave them the information needed, and the tunnel was -easily found. It had not been carried to any great extent at the time of discovery. Tunnel Is Discovered. From information secured, it appears that several of the, prisoners of the compound had entered upou an agreement agree-ment to work on the tunnH in turns, the work to be done in tie wee hours of the night, when there was least likelihood like-lihood bf the operating being disco v-ered v-ered by guards. The work was begun audi had been carried to a certain extent. Early yesterday yes-terday morning, it is learned, it became the turn of one of the three men mentioned men-tioned above to go into the tunnel and do his share of work. Which -one of the men it was who was supposed to go on shift has not been made known, but when it came time for him to take his turn he declined, for reasons best known to himself. The other two men. it is reported, (Continued on Page Ten.) ALIENS BUTTLE ii war ran (Continued from Page One.) attempted to persuade the third to proceed pro-ceed with his part of the work. This led to an argument and words led to a fight. In some manner the men hail gotten hold of pieces of metal, which they had fashioned into the form of knives or large daggers, with which they were working in the tunnel. They immediately converted these from tunneling devices into fighting instruments, in-struments, and there was a melee in which all three participants were badly slashed before the guards could get into the barracks and stop them. Gunter aDd Fisher both received somo ugly wounds about the abdomen, it is reported, re-ported, and one of them was so badly ripped that the surgeons hold out little hope for his recovery. Borrsohn got a number of' wounds, but his were not of a serious nature, it is stated. These men are said to be of thc I. W, W. element of the prison camp and am members of the troublesome faction that the prison authorities have had to (tail with ever since the prison becarofc-a camp for civilian eoemv aliens. K On account of the fact that the figlvN occurred about the time that news of the surrender of Germany reached the city and post, thero was a report to the. effect that receipt of the news io the camp called forth a remark abe the kaiser from one of (lie prisojB,. and that this precipitated the blooTjy melee. At first the prison authorities thought this was the explanation for the fight, but investigation developed that it had nothing to do with the affair, af-fair, but that the wholo trouble arose over the escape tunnel and refusal of one man to work iu it when his turn came. . |