Show convicts in runaway whilo returning to camp the other side of monday night about froia this city where they had been attending the photoplay at the electric er a party of twelve state prisoners who are working ou the state road had a narrow escalo from death 01 serious injury the men ft ere in a ft igon and aft guards ft ere riding behind on horseback the drafting the fhagon got beyond control this side of middleton and upon arriving at the bridge across the gulch west of middleton crashed into it sending the guardrail living and one of the mules going oer the shock brought the wagon to a standstill in a very precarious condition on the edge of the bridge with the gulch about twenty feet deep beneath and the struggles of the mule suspended by it harness and alie uneasiness of the other mule threatened to carr the whole outfit into the gulch quick work ft as necessary and it haq done the suspended mule was cut au and fell into the gulch killing it some of the convicts were thrown off the wagon and some jumped off when they realized the danger they were in about six of them receiving minor injuries which are being attended to at the camp |