FIRE IN PENITENIARY
PRISON COMPLETELY DESTROYED. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday. 7 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Sept. 4. Seattle telegrams report that the main building of the Washington State penitentiary at Wallawalla, including the colls, was destroyed by a fire which raged yesterday afternoon and all night, till extinguished early this morning. During tho night one thousand convicts were kept under tho guard of the State militia, in tho recreation grounds of the prison. The fire originated through a coir vict hurling a burning object into a ventilating fan. Guards this morning foiled an attempt to start a second blaze in an automobile license plat* factory attached to the penitentiary.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3445, 6 September 1926, Page 7
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