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Show Prisoners' Train Finishes I Wild Trip Across Country I CAMP COOKE, CALIF. - Pas-engers Pas-engers on the army's transcontinental transconti-nental prison train "Hell Run" were lodged In quarters here from which escape would be "extremely difficult" diffi-cult" I The 141 tough prisoners, trans ported from Greenhaven, N. Y., made the trip a nightmare for theii guards with unruliness, escapes and 'attempted escapes, i Seven got away In Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. Six were recaptured, re-captured, one of them shot serious-,ly. serious-,ly. One man was being hunted in Kansas. j There were scores of attempts to scape every time the train slowed oown, officers said. Several prison-'ers prison-'ers were shot and wounded by guards. ' Col Wade D. Killen of Salt Lake City, train commander from there westward, described the men as "habitual criminals, many of them 'inured to crime before they en-Wed en-Wed the army." All have been sen-Weed sen-Weed for serious crimes, many to life terms. |