YANKEELAND SENSATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 4 September 1912, Page 6

YANKEELAND SENSATIONS.

(Received 12.40 a.m.) New York, September 3. A number of prisoners confined in bull pens revolted and attacked their guards, overpowered them, and set on fire the buildings and the prison, llliie Government called out the Fire Department and the militia force. Later they surrounded the pen and pointed rifles at the frenzied convicts, who were recaptured after a fierce struggle. The convicts’ lack of arms prevented bloodshed. (Received 4, 12.40 p.m.) As the result of cloudbursts throughout Pennsylvania, 36 people were drowned; their bodies were recovered. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Rivers overflowed, and thirty other persons are missing. Houses were flooded and in some cases carried off bodily. Railroads are idle and the town of Can Honshu ry is under four feet of water. Four hundred minors in the Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Company’s mine narrowly escaped drowning when the mine was flooded, the alarm being given only in the nick of time. Several smaller streams changed their courses.