Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards opened fire with riot guns. One convict was killed, three fell wounded, the rest retreated to the cell blocks...
...Dannemora is Clinton prison, called "Siberia" by New York's underworld. There are herded the state's ugliest criminals in vicious, degenerate brotherhood. They work for 1¢ per day. While idling in the yard, 1,300 inmates suddenly mutinied, beat two guards, set fire to buildings, stormed the walls. They were unarmed but they fought for five hours. Prison guards, state troopers and citizen volunteers (including famed Baritone Reinald Werrenrath) finally quelled them with machine and riot guns, tear bombs, hand grenades. Three convicts were killed, many injured. Estimated damage...
...trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from the arsenal, set torches to the buildings, attacked the walls. The yard billowed with smoke, beneath which convicts chopped apart fire hoses, kept up a rattling fire. After five hours Warden Edgar S. Jennings reported the situation under control. Convicts killed: two; escaped: four. Estimated damage...
...York, keeping the harbor open. For three days the battle between the Admiral and General veered back and forth. Claims on each side were large. Admiral Cole issued this war-time communique: "Our Grand Fleet today engaged the enemy at 3.000 yards off Ambrose Light, silenced their battery fire, levelled the defenses and destroyed New York. At 7:12 our bombing squadron dropped 50 bombs on the lower harbor and their air reconnaisance aided materially in governing shell fire. We maneuvered N. N. E. and scored repeated hits." The invading fleet, besides wrecking New York, claimed to have "blinded" Fort...
William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania R. R., lost six blooded horses, a calf, farm machinery, half of his crop of hay and wheat, when lightning and fire smote the barn of his estate near Philadelphia...