New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1930, Page 3

GUARDS HESITANCY ‘BLAMED INDEATHS OF OHIO CONVICTS '(Continyed From First Page) pacity for which it was. intended when, the fire, believed of incendiary origin, and fanned by a stiff wind, swept through the upper tiers of the four blocks,. spreading death. and suffering in its wake. *The ruins of the cell block broke | inte flames again this morning. ‘A | fire company quickly quenched . the | blaze. One Prisoncr Escapes “Only onc convict escaped follow- ing last night's fire, it was reported today. Michael Born, 32, sent up| from Wood county in 1929 to scr\c‘ 1:to’15 years for burglary, was re- corded as missing from the hospital where he was treated last night. Meanwhile an investigation of the fire, launched, today by - Franklin County Prosecutor John Chester, Jr., was halted abruptly when Governor Cooper directed State Attorney Gen- eral Gilbert Bettman to take charge | of the.inquiry. Chester had recom- meénded that Warden Thomas "be suspended temporarily, pending in- vestigation, and had ordered tele- phones removed from the warden's effice. Several state officials protested Chester's actions, and this was.fol- lowed by the governor's announce- ment designating Bettman as‘ the chief investigator. Governor Cooper arrived a[ the Penitentiary during the morning and went ‘to the warden’s residencs ‘where the investigation, launched last night, was continued. ‘Wants Frec Rein Chester said: “I have asked Wel- farc Director Griswold to suspend temporarily Warden Thomas, with- out criticism, so that prisoners will be freP to’talk and give any-infor- mation without'possible influence of the person over them.” Advised that Chester had ordered the warden's phones removed, Dale Donithan, one of Governor Coopet's secretaries, accompanied by a Na- tional Guard officer, rushed from the prison to the executive mansion to protest the prosecutor’s action to the state’s chief execcutive. _Prosecutor Chester and two mem- bers' of his staff, accompanied by ‘Wardeén Thomas, went into a’ closed conférence shortly after the prose- cirtor reached the prison. “Approximately’ 317 ‘ Ohio - state penitentiary convicts lay dead in the temporary ‘morgue, mute testimony af ‘the disastrous fire. Trapped be- hind theirlocked cell doors, the men had no chance to escape the flames and dense smoke which raced through the tiers. Counts of the dead -varied from 276 by prison at- taches to 336 by hospital attend- ante. Newspapermen counted ‘305 bodies early today: As the dead were ‘being prepared for burial in the coliseum of the| state fair grounds by corps of under- takers, state officials, headed b: ‘Warden Preston Thomas and Di- | rector of Welfare H. H. Griswold | continued their investigation &t the | fire, which all agreed was of incen- | diary origin. 150 in Lower Ranges About 150 prisoners who were in the lower ranges of the cell blocks when the fire broke out were in the| Ppenitentiary hospital today, many | of them seriously injured. The flames were discovered short- ly before 5:30 p. m.” Within several hours the fire had been brought under- control but the suffocating smoke continued -to take its' toll among the convicts. In the adjoin- ing'cell blocks men screamed to be released. And when the prison officials capitulated to their de- mands the wide penitentiary yard be€ame a screaming mass of gray clothed men, Before two hours had passed this mass of men, picking their way among countless bodies spread over the yard, became a threatening menace. Some of them cut the fire hose which continued to play on flames that spread to the prison cotton and woolen mills. Others hurled siones and slugged the guards that were trying to maintain order. In the dining hall dishes and tables were upsct. AlL Policemen Called Every available ~policeman in Columbus was summoned for duty both within the prison and on the outside. A sub-machine gun in the guard room protected the entrance to the yard. Tw0 companies of regular army troops . and 1,500 Ohio National Guardsmen were stationed at strate- gic.places about the penitentiary. | Every guard on both day and night Bhits was on- duty. Stll the {housands of milling | prisoners in. the yard refused 1o be | quietd. When they were ordered to asgemble in the dining room many refused to obey. Later they were ordered into the - remaining cell hlocks and dormitories but they in- sisted on-staying in the yard, crowd- ing about the bodies which.were ar- ranged in ‘long rows five and six deep. Except * for nrinor disturbances there was no trouble, however. About five hours after the firc was brought under comtrol .the ranks of scantily clad. convicts began to thin out and at midnight only-a few of them were left in the yard. - - Beacon Lights Used Beacon lights and ar¢ lamps, Placed upon the main wall for pro- tection played down-on the ghastly scene. Slowly the work of removing Hodies to the fairgrounds procecded, Far into'the early morning hours the official investigation went forward in the ‘private residence of Warden Thomas. Scenes of confusion and terror ac- companied the outburst of the flames. They started in the north- ‘West corner of a new building of cell blocks, part of which &till was un- der construction. Tt was in this new part that the fire originated, not more than half an hour after a sang of prisoners working on the Job returned to their cells. Apparently the flames broke out in several places simultaneously, officials said. Everything pointed to incendiarism, they indicated. Liston G. Schooley, Cleveland [ xey e sround fraud, was at work in the deputy warden's office, on the .oppo- site side of the prison yard. He saw smoke rising from the, cell blocks. Saw Reflection of Fire About the same time Charley Sholkey, a prisoner:from Toledo, and one, of those quartered in the dam- aged building sounded an alarm on range.i{wo of section H. Sholkey, a practical joker.was not taken seri- -ously by his. fellow convicts until they saw the red reflection in the windows of a manufacturing plant. Then a great scream came from sections G-and \H. -In cach there were-six ranges of 17 cells, housing four prisoners - to the cell. The flames and the smoke were eating toward them rapidly. ‘William C. Baldwin and Tom | | Little, guard captains, dashed to the | laming building with keys to the cells. At the same time other guards ran to the dcputies’ officc where | Schooley, in the absence of officers, | began handing out orders and issucd | |all the keys he had. Begin to Unlock Cells Guard Raldwin and Little rushed | into the smoke filled building, took | the keys to the ranges from the day guards and started . unlocking cells | as quickly as they could. Meanwhile firo companies, answering - four alarms spread every foot of hose available. As the guards ' released convicts from’ one range-they climbed to, the next. Men were choking and gasping for ‘breath, As they were released many joined in the rescue wo After he had unlocked the last cell on the fourth range Little collapséd. Four inmates carried him out. Bald- win struzgled on to the fifth tier, then, he too collapsed and was car- ried to safety. On the fourth and fifth: ranges death took its toll rapidly. The lungs of the trapped men were filled With smoke. Ghastly sights ~greeted- the rescuers, Suffocated men lay on the floor clutching with pale, white fingers at the bars that held them in. Some Try ‘to Bury Heads Others.were stretched across and under their bunks.. Some had tried to | bury their heads in the:lavatories in the tells, and still others had grab- | bed- their blankets or torn their shirts from their backs to drench them, with water. and place them over their heads. Streams of water swished through | the. mesh and: the iron bars and formed: rivulets in. which the faces of fallen men were buried. Hundreds had been carried from the structure and above the heads of the rescuers in ‘the sixth and last range wére more than a hundred othérs who could " not possibly be saved. Bed mattresses’and the cots were masses of flames. Locks on the cells were' battered | away with sledge hammers. The mesh walls of the ranges were cat away with wire clippers. Hose lines winding a path up the flights of | stairs got in' the road of stumbling | men. « Scene Like Battle Fleld Outside the smoke filled building the. scene resembled a field of bat- tle strewn with corpses. At first, the prisoners who had es- | | caped death emerged in pairs carry- | ng a comrade by the arms and feet, whom they dropped on the grass. Then they knelt beside the choked | men, turned them on their stomachs and applied methods of resuscitation. For a while this revived the victims but soon they came so fast that the| band of convicts found themselves stumbling over each other, dropping the men they had carried out and hurrying back for others. Groans and feeble cries, from the lips of the victims and words of en- couragement - or shricks of terror from the men who were working over them rose from the ground. Seared and blackened faces bespoke the fu- tility of pondering over men who already were dead. Big gray blankets were spread pro- fusely over the green grass. ake room for this man. He's alive. Gangway,” came the cry from a little group hurrying along the walks toward the hospital. The lanes of prisoners separated. They made room for the man who had a chance to live. Doctors Rush to Scene Out of the guard room door pour- ed doctors, internes, nurses, priests, and ministers. Dying mén cried for the last rites of the church. Medical | men, some without hats or coats and others in uniforms of white tramped over the ground, which became sog- gy under the burden of many feet. Two hours after the fire started daylight had faded and weary troub- led men worked:on under the rays| of the arc lights that gave the prison yard a dismal appearance. It was about this time that mut- tering prisoners, chilled to the.bone in the night air because they could not obey orders to go inside, started the disturbances that caused so much s alarm. The effects of warm coffee served | during the rescue operations and consumed freely by hundreds who were idling ‘bout ‘as well as those| who were working had worn off when dark fell. But it was mostly the idle prisoners who were inclined to cause trouble. They assembled in small groups in different parts of the prison yard. The guards could do nothing with - them. Stones .flew through the air occasionally and once a band of men rushed a gaso- line supply truck that had been| brought into the yard -and tried to set it afire. Several prisoners inter- vened, were pelted with tin cups and dashed away, but the inclination to burn the gasoline truck was broken up. . g Guards Prepare for Clashes Beyond the gates, in the office of ‘Warden Thomas, in the warden's pes- idence, 'in- the record room and in the secretary's office, state and coun- ty officials, armed guardsmen and troopers were prepared for whatever might h:x pen. ians, aided by trusties climbed to the guard tower atop the front wall and installed floodlights that illuminated nearly every corner of the yard. Policemen patrolled the walks, prison guards were ready with pointed weapons. Occasionally among the milling prisoners could he scen the striped cap of a member of First “K” Com- pany, that notorious band of convicts | ordinarily kept under close lock and because of their tendency to start trouble on the least provoca- tion. But the men apparently convinced councilman who s =erving a term for participation in'a Cleveland play- | themselves that there was little to be | ary. | deaths, December 31, | cisco, over 500 deaths, gained by adding to the appalling sit- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL uation created -by the fire. groups thinned out to mere hand- fuls. They took to their bunks. In. the outside .world there was many a family whose anxiety could not be quicted last night. Out of the prison population of more than 4,000, cach prisoner who escaped the fate of those in companies G and H. was as anxious to spread the word that he was safe as his relatives were hopeful of receiving it. Radio Called Upon Prison officials finally called upon radio stations to broadcast the news that all ‘prisoners who were safc would send word to their familics today. ‘While the disaster was revealing itselt at its' worst - pandemonium reigned without, as well as “l(]\lfl the prison walls. Black smoke, rolling in from the roof of the damaged cell Dblocks was the firct signal to the outside world of the impending ca- tastrophe. Spectators gathered rap- idly and within a few minutes forced a serious handicap upon the officials | trying to maintain order. The crowds surged up to the lawn fronting the prison and policemen battled* futilely against them. Auto- mobile traffic jammed the surround- ing streets. A* company of troops finally was West called into action to clear Spring street on which the peniten- tiary faces and other thoroughfares. The troops charged up the street with fixed bayonets. Guards stationed on the sub machine guns to drive back the throngs. This mancuvering brought prompt success. Prison 40 Years Old Ohio penitentiary is 40 years old. w buildings have been added from time to time but the general proper- ty is much the same as it was in the beginning. It was built to accommodate LEOO‘I prisoners. The population yesterday was 4,300. Over-crowded conditions for years have proved the greatest source of trouble at the penitenti- The building in which the fire | victims met death was_comparative- 1y riew. The roof was covered with an oil substance that made fuel for the| | flames. The fire started in the roof and ate a steady path until the en- The building was constructed of con- tirc covering was consumed. crete, brick, steel and wood. Farly this morning the scene of death had shifted to the fairgrounds where a small army of undertakers worked through the night preparing One hundred guardsmen were on duty there, pa- trolling the grounds to keep away the the bodies for burial. morbidly curious. List of Fire Disastcrs By the United Press, The fire at the Ohio State peni- Dbecduse’ of its: heavy loss be classed as one of |the Worst disasters in recent history. |1t was the first great prison firc. fire disasters were mainly in |theaters, churches and schools. Among the greatest' fires of ‘the |last century were: tentiary, of life, will {Other Church at Coteshti, déaths, April 18, 1930. Motion picture theater, Naval Base, Southern: Korea, deaths, March 10, 1930, Glen 1929, Cleveland Clinic, 125 leasing poison gases, May 15, 192 Laurier Palace theater, Montreal, 76 deaths, Jan. 9, 1927. Theater, Drumcollogher, 40 deaths, Sept. 5, 1926, School, 24, 1924. May 18, 1923. Chemical plant, 100 deaths, May, Pit(sburgh, 192! Explosion and fire, Halifax, N. §., 1,226 deaths,”Dec. 6, 1917 Italian theater, Calumet, Mich,, 72 deaths, Dec. 24, 1913. Mining and lumber property. Por- cupine district, Ontario, 400 deaths, July 10, 1911, New York Factory Fire Factory, New York, 147 March 25, 1911. ' Flores theater, 300 deaths, Feb. 2 Acapulco, 1909, School, Collinwood, O., 174 deaths, | March 4, 1908. Mining propert) Va., 400 deaths, 1907. Earthquake and fire. San Fairmount, W. Fran- Iroquois theater, deaths, Dec. 30, 1903, Rhodes opera house, Pa., 169 deaths, Jan. 12, Chicago, 5 1903. Baptist church, Birmingham, Ala., | 115 deaths,Sept. 20, 1902. Dock and ship fire, Hoboken, N. 215 deaths, Junc 30, 1900. Grand Charity Bazaar, Paris, | deaths, May 3, 18 Quanton theater, Peiping, 30 deaths, February, 1897 Chlnav Opera Comique, Paris, 200 dralh- May 25, 1887, The ! clouds | the lives of about 500 state penit abutting outside dropped their rifles and picked up Rumania, 110 Chinkai 104 Cinema, Paisley, Scotland, 72 Cleveland, O., deaths resulting from fire re- 29. Ireland, Babb's Switch, Okla, 37| | deaths, Dec. School, Cleveland, N. C., 73 deaths, ra., deaths, Mex., April 18, 1906 | TDoyertown, 143 [ Theater Poland, 270 deaths, Jan. Theater, deaths, Dec. Conway's deaths, " Dec. Theater, " Tientsin, . deaths, May, 1872 “Great Fire,” Chicago, Oct. 9, 1871. Church, . Santiago, deaths, Dec. 8, 1863, Factory, Lawrence, deaths, Jan. 10, 1860. Fire, Canton, China, 1,670 deaths, May 25, 1545. Theater, Leningrad, Feb, Russo, Vienna, Austria, 8§, 1881. theater, 5, 1876. 450 | Brooklyn, China, © 600 50 deaths, Chile, Mase., . 14, 1836. Guards Acted Slowly Columbus, 0., April 22.—(P— Guards failed to realize quickly the seriousness of the fire which claimed e tiary convicts and directed their first cfforts against a possible outbreak | rather than to rescue work, it w indicated in testimony at the ¢/ investigation of the disaster today. tate Welfare Dircctor H. H | Griswold turned the prison residenc: | of Warden Preston’ I3 Thomas into | & courtroom carly today and ques- | tioned six prison officials, guards. | firemen and prisoners in the hope of fixing responsibility. | Warden Thomas said his first or- ders on receiving word of the fire were to send a deputy with keys to the prison gates to let the firc ap- paratus in and then inquired if keys | had been sent to the cell blocks to release the prisoners. Ordered Cells Opened “I was informed that keys had not been sent to the cell blocks and I ordered the guards to get them | down there as quickly as possible. 1 5 don't know what guards took the keys or how long they were in get- ting them there, The warden said he then armed | two guards with shot guns and took | personal charge of guarding the prison from the outside to prevent | possible cscape of prisoners. “Bafore loaving for the, outside, T ordered keys to the cells sent by a | trusty to the E and F cell blocks, but my wife had beaten me to it.”” The warden said it was probably | 20 minutes from the time he was notified of the firc 1 ntil they werc bringing out bodies. i C. W. Osborn, assistant Columbus fire chief, said he figured it was not more than 12 minites from the time of the alarm until he had his appa- | ratus inside the prison walls, When he arrived on the cell range, prisoners and guards were rushing | about opening cells. “Some werc | using keys and others were bmtcr- ing the locks off with axes,” he said. The work cf opcning the cells he | said, “seemed to be rather slow,” but the héat was so intense and the smoke so dense that it was difficult for them to make speedy headway. Bodies Began to Be Removed The remo ing of hodies began within five minutes aftér he arrived on the cell range, Osborn said. He could throw little light whether guards were doing all in | their power to free the prisoners. “The guards said they were unlock- | ing the cells, but the prisoners said they were not. I did not sec any {guards unlocking cells.” Prisoncrs, impatient at the efforts of firemen to extinguish the blaze | which was threatening the lives of their friends, overpowered the fire- men and took the hose lines from | them in an attempt to play streams of water on the cells where the pri- soners were held, Osborn said. He declared their efforts were futile as | the hose were not long enough to | reach the upper ticrs of cells where | the prisoners were confincd. | Liston G. Schooley, Cleveland | prisoner, said he was in the deputy warden’s office when he ducomcd’ the flames. He called the telephone | operator who responded that he al- | ready knew of the fire. i “Cleveland Johnson, a prisoner, | came running in and asked for keys | to open doors to get down to the cell | blocks where the fire was raging. | Guard Cooper came running in and | asked for keys also but in the ex- citement and confusion I could not | find the ones he wanted. He left and | then came back, reported that ]\n‘ could not get through and asked | what he should do. I told him to | break the doors down or get through on (" ICE CREAM _ 49C Per Quart SPECIAL EVERY WEDNESDAY at the PALACE CONFECTIONERY Next to Palace Theater Specially Made by the Crown Ice Cream Co. (In the new Two Flavor Package) Big Bargain Sale on Veldown Three 40f Boxes for 89¢ Pure RAYON Cellulose Fillor—Thwu! 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Captain Hall said there duty of the guards,” original- 12 keys to the fatal of them had been T} been last Thanksgivi and | would unlock the cells in opposite ard Wilkinson trying to cells and he was overcome \\u the smoke and fell several times. Prisoners finally carried him out. Two More Overcome “Guards Baldwin and Littlc to unlock the-cells but both of went to the they both 1 Direct start- to be SUPPOS down and had hospital. 1 d key Griswold souzht dwin and Little brou but the hospital were not in condition to have Ba g, to testify. Ldward Jenkins, guard, said: sergeant “1 had no instructions in ca gates. fire, Deputy Warden ard, said he was outsi when he saw the smok coming fram the inside. to the prison in the cxcept to guard the James W. He He said it pro before he could op of the cell ran oners out. “When T got there and hamm, i axe He two there werc is on he said. 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