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Show !MU3HT LIKE RATS IN TRAP Burdened with Ball and Chain, Prison-! Prison-! ers Carried Down to Death When ) Bull Pen Collapsed. I i W'.ij nes ille. N. C. Kour convicts jw.Te killed, twelve probably fatally in lured and seventeen guards and con-vlcls con-vlcls more or less seriously hurt by the co'iapse of the bull pen in wlih h they were housed in u mountain I usk In thin i ounty Sunday. ; Tie- hull-pen was near Watervlllo N i, in tho heart of the Smoky Monti tains ",ho convicts were all negroes l .v i d by the stale of North Carolina for worlt of the Trans-Continental railroad. rail-road. j The bull pen was built en;ir y from heavy logs niid the weight of the roof ,c;uk-I It to collapse. Th- structure 'slide down tho mountain side without ' waitiin for sixty five feet, and not one of the occuiants escaped uninjured, , The fact that every convict was burdened with hall and (hain rendered render-ed the victims helpless and Is responsible respon-sible for the great number of Injured. Scvtral of the prisoners displayed heroii.ni in their efforts to rescue com-j com-j lades and Immediate applications for ' their pardon will he made to the gov-i gov-i ernor. |