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Show M RIOTING PRISONERS SHOT a s a . . . WHIPPING BEE I ENDS HOURS OF I DISTURBANCES 1 Noise of Rioting Prisoners Heard for Blocks in Chicago BLANKETS IN FLAMES Leaders Beaten Into Submission Sub-mission By 30 Guards With Clubs COLUMBIA, S. C. May 8. Several convicts in the Scmth t arollna state 1 prison were shot today by prison gnaedfl In putting down a mutiny, according ac-cording to Chief May of the city fire department, wlio wan called upon to , help the prison authorities chief May said that "between 10 and 12" prttonors were shot. The Columbia fire department was . rushed to tho state penitentiary to as-sKt as-sKt In quelling a mutiny unions convicts. con-victs. The chief said the disorder started when n i.ritup of prisoner rrturnins from lunch in tin main dining r o attacked the guards who were escort Ing them. The mutiny was p it down In short order. lb tween 300 and 100 prisoners were Involved In the attempted uprising, ll , w as said. CHICAGO, Ills., May g Leaders ll IB a riot in the Cook county Jail heri ill last night were taken from their cellr I early today and whipped by Warde It Wesley W'esthrook and thirty guards i III armed with clubs and blackjacks be- U I fore the disturbance which lasted foi I more than four hours, was stopped. , klM The riot started because of an ordei flfl , limiting the prisoners' right to receive flfl visitors to once instead of twice a f KB week. The riot started on the fourth tier WC Flaming blankets set nflre by prl6- ;lg oners were dropped to the ground Wfl floor Dense smoke, almost suffocat- afj ed many inmates. ftfC With steel strips torn from their fw hunks the prisoners beat upon the U bars of the cells, the bedlam being al heard for blocks. um Crowds gathered at the jail entranco tsw and police were called to beat then) He away. ffj Efforts of the guards to quell the llj riot, which began at 9.30 p. m.. and 11 lasted until after midnight. failed 1 lli until Warden Westbrook took charge ff of the situation Thirty minutes later ,1M the Jail was oulet. ilH "I am sorry that I had to beat th- ilM men." the warden said, after the ex- lU citement had calmed down, "but they HI were destroing public property. M There was but one thing to do and 11 that was to beat them. 1 had reason- 11 ed with them. Thy refused to obey u and there was nothing left to do but ill I hammer In the fact that they were1 If ; not to destroy property to gain their 'll end." 81 |