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Show STATE PRISON 1 SCENE OP WILD RIOTIT NIGHT Fifty Hunger Strikes Break Out of Cells and Raise Great Tumult BALTIMORE, Aug. 20. More than fifty hunger slrlk'-rs started a. riot In the dormitory, of the Maryland penl-tr.tiary penl-tr.tiary early today The men. who had been Rcgregated tore oul the electric lights ami, with (lit building in darkness, started a two hour demonstration. Breaking out cf their cells In some unknown manner, tho men tuough unable un-able to get out of the building, set up a general racket that policemen had 'biM little sruccess In quelling because lof the darkness. When streams of water were played upon them the) quieted down The demonstration resulted from a ,slrike a few days ago of pi isoners who 'declared they would not work unless 'glen better food. The w.,rden de-I de-I C,lared an man who would not work would not eat All but about fifty jof the men went 10 work. |