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Show ; j hyjsi to. Ben cut ' C? JAIL, A: MMB LIGHTS ;-:.Hi$JffliHLyRE MINEOLA; Tex.; Sept. 10. In an effort to burn his way out of jail yesterday, Silas Johnson, a negro, lit his own funeral pyre. He was cremated while a mob surged around the jail watching his last agonies through iron window bars, but unable to save him. - ' Johnson was arrested on a drunkenness charge and started a fire in the prison, hoping , to burn his way out. The fire got beyond his control, and the turnkey could not be found until too late. A general fire alarm was turned in, and crowds rushed to the burning lockup. Impelled by the, screams of the negro, frantic attempts were made to rescue him. - A heavy battering ram was procured, but the. iron doors, withstood the shocks. Axes and sledge hammers hall no more effect, and the crowd was forced to look on and watch the negro burn to death. ' The town is without adequate fire service, and by the . time the small hose was played on the flames the fire was beyond-control. While the pegro was crying out in his ageii-Y after; thejasi.attempt at -his ;rscuev.one. of ..the.-walls ..the.-walls of the jail fell inan'd he wasv buried beneath the debris. ' ''"'''. . . |