Col, Oct. 3. Prisoners in the Colorado State jtentiary here mutinied to-day while at the dinner table.
In a sudden uprising, they attacked the guards and captured rifles and ammunition.
Five hundred citizens in the town outside heard prolonged firing within the prison walls. Men of the town surrounded the prison and sent word to neighbouring towns for help.
This is the latest of a series of terious prison mutinies at various points in the United States including the large Dannamora prison in New York state, Overcrowding and Jong-term confinement of old offend-are considered responsible.
Later.
While fires within the Colorado State Penitentiary this evening illuminated scones of rioting which til rage, mews of the convicts' outbreak "trickled out from the eseiged inmates and it w ed that four guards we: killed in the initial mutiny at dinner time and 11 are held as hostages.
Two hundred desperadoes within the prison this evening offered ing that they be given in which they might escape, Eugene Crawford, warden "of the prison, refus Tke convicts then threatened to Kill the guards held as hostages.
Four of the prison buildings have already been destroyed by fire. Because of the remoteness of the little town in which the penitentiary is located, there is delay in summoning adequate force to quell the disturbance, Later.
Making good their threat to kill one or more of the prison officials held as hostages in the event that their terms are not met, leaders in the mutiny of convicts at the Colorado State Penitentiary murdered John Eels, the prison hangman to-night.
'They threw Eels' body out of the window of Cell No, 3, where they ere barriended.
For a time, former state Senator George Colgate was held as a hostage. He has now been released, however.
The convicts continue to hold their position, surrounded by burning buildings and exchanging shots with attackers. They have an ample supply of arms and am. munition seized from guards and demand that they be allowed to! creape with motor cars, with the threat of further murders as an alternative—United Press,
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