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AMERICAN PRISON DESTROYED AN ALL-NIGHT BLAZE. GUARDS FOIL SECOND ATTEMPT. Received September 5. 5.5 p.m. VANCOUVER, Sept. 4. Seattle telegrams report that the ] main building of the Washington State i Penitentiary at Wallawalla, including! the cells, was destroyed by a fire which ' raged yesterday afternoon and all I night till it was extinguished early this morning. During the night 1000 convicts were kept under guard by State Militia in the recreation grounds of the prison. The fire originated through a convict hurling a burning object into a ventilating fan. Guards this morning foiled an attempt to start a second blaze in the automobile license plate factory attached to the Penitentiary.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19648, 6 September 1926, Page 7
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