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...another guard and gave him the key to an arms cabinet in the prison office. As he rushed back to his cage, Lovett saw one group of prisoners setting fire to a pile of newspapers and toilet paper that they had stacked under a bunk and another starting a blaze at the opposite end of the building. A large exhaust fan sucked the flames along the ceiling. In seconds, the one-story structure was a furnace...
...Negro had planned the riot, possibly to mask a prison break, possibly just to vent some frustrations. "They really wanted to tear it up," testified one prisoner, but for what reason he could not-or would not-say. Nor could the three ringleaders. All had perished in the blaze...
...Glorious Blaze. The Wobbly martyrs had a flair for last words. Convicted on debatable evidence of the murder...
...death. Before he faced a firing squad, he wired Big Bill Haywood: "Don't waste time mourning. Organize!" Frank Little, "half Indian, half white and all I.W.W.," was lynched by masked men in Butte, Montana, but not before he had said: "Better to go out in a blaze of glory than to give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched...
Gulping air, the Senator then dashed to the phone to summon firemen, who found him safe but sooty. The $1,000 blaze was caused, firemen guessed, by a smoldering cigarette-left over from an earlier smoke-filled session between Tower and Texas Republican cronies...