Show BITTLE FOUGHT IN N GUARDS AND TOWNSFOLK FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES WITH FRENZIED CONVICTS wholesale prison break at rawlins ns wyo results in freeing of desperate men who are being hunted down by posses rawlins wyo Wye While a handful ot of guards locked la in the a tate state prison battled with several hundred mutinous pr prisoners isomers in a desperate effort to ro restore order after the second jail delivery in twenty four hours citizens of oc rawlins dueled with ten to thirty fleeing felons felo iua two men one of thel the leaders of the outbreak and the other a citizen were killed and another wounded in the streets ot of rawlins ns the outbreak sunday was the see sec within twenty four hours about 3 saturday afternoon twenty prisoners escaped and nine were recaptured before 8 at sunday afternoon a party oe at de sperato life overpowered the cell house keeper took his keys keya and released leased their comrades from their cells every prisoner willing to risk a battle with the guards made a rush tor for the gates A moment later the citizens of the to town w n heard a fusillade of shots inside the walls A bedlam of shouts and yells echoed from the prison A few seconds later more than a dozen men dalhed 1113 hed down the main street armed with guns and knives holding the few citizens on the street at bay with revolvers they charged into a livery barn holding up the proprietor hastily ily throwing saddles and bridles onto the horses A huge negro with a revolver was left as guard on the outside charles a barber had heard the commotion and camo came down the street with a shotgun the negro shot him through the head killing him instantly E leven eleven of the escaped convicts are still at large they are reported to have reached snake river just ove over r the line in colorado no effort has b been pon mada 49 by AVY wyoming 09 posses to capture them the men are well armed the convicts are divided all of them making for the noted hole in the wall section at the juncture of colorado wyoming and utah the men have terrorized the country through which they have parsed demanding food and firearms at every farmhouses they come across no effort has been made as yet by the sheriffs of routt land and counties to run down the bandits GOVERNOR BLAMES PEOPLE rawlins ns wyo DI declaring aring that the tha prison outbreaks of saturday and sunday in which twenty seven ot of the most desp desperate emte convicts in the institution made their escape was directly due to the action of people outside the prison walla and that the ariso prisoners n era received aid inside the prison by citizens whom he said he hoped to place behind prison bars where they belong was the accusation made monday night by governor john M carey at a mass meeting of citizens here |