Yuma Territorial Prison History
Brief History...
On July 1, 1876, the first seven inmates entered the Territorial Prison
at Yuma, and were locked into the new cells they had built themselves.
A total of 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, lived within these walls during the prison's thirty-three years of operation. Their crimes ranged from murder to polygamy, with grand larceny being the most common. A majority served only portions of their sentences due to the ease with which paroles and pardons were obtained. One hundred eleven persons died while serving their sentences, most from tuberculosis, which was common throughout the territory. Of the many prisoners who attempted escape, twenty-six were successful, but only two were from within the prison confines. No executions took place at the prison because capital punishment was administered by the county government.
Despite an infamous reputation, written evidence indicates that the prison was humanely administered, and was a model institution for its time. The only punishments were the dark cells for inmates who broke prison regulations, and the ball and chain for those who tried to escape. During their free time, prisoners hand-crafted many items. Those items were sold at public bazaars held at the prison on Sundays after church services. Prisoners also had regular medical attention, and access to a good hospital.
Schooling was available for convicts, and many learned to read and write in prison. The prison housed one of the first "public" libraries in the territory, and the fee charged to visitors for a tour of the institution was used to purchase books. One of the early electrical generating plants in the West furnished power for lights and ran a ventilation system in the cellblock.
By 1907, the prison was severely overcrowded, and there was no room on Prison Hill for expansion. The convicts constructed a new facility in Florence, Arizona. The last prisoner left Yuma on September 15, 1909.
The Yuma Union High School occupied the buildings from 1910 to 1914. Empty cells provided free lodging for hobos riding the freights in the 1920s, and sheltered many homeless families during the Depression. Townspeople considered the complex a source for free building materials. This, plus fires, weathering, and railroad construction, destroyed the prison walls and all buildings except the cells, main gate and guard tower; but these provide a glimpse of convict life a century ago.
This History was taken from the state web site at http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html check it out for schedualed events, visiting hours and fees.
Reported Hauntings
Wrtten by Troy Taylor of http://www.prairieghosts.com/yuma.html
Ghosts of the Yuma Territorial Prison
The first seven inmates entered the Territorial prison at Yuma, Arizona on July 1, 1876. They were locked into cells that they had constructed with their own hands. In the coming 33 years, a total of 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, lived in the prison. Their crimes ranged from murder to polygamy, with grand larceny being the most common. During that time, 111 of the prisoners died, mostly from tuberculosis, but even so, the stories say that some of them never left this place, even in death.
Despite the reputation of the Yuma prison being a brutal place, the punishments here were very humane for the time and mostly consisted of the “dark cell”, a place of isolation for the rule breakers, and a ball and chain for those who tried to escape. It was considered a model institution and the prisoners had regular medical attention, access to a good hospital and even the opportunity to learn to read and write while incarcerated. The prison housed one of the first “public” libraries in the territory and visitors were charged a fee to tour the prison and to check out books. One of the earliest electric generating plants in the western states furnished light and ventilation for the cell blocks.
But all was not perfect and by 1907, the prison was severely overcrowded. The convicts constructed a new facility in Florence and the last of them were transferred away from Yuma by September 1909.
From 1910-1914, the former prison buildings were occupied by the Yuma High School and after that, empty cells provided fee lodging for hoboes and drifters who were riding the rails across the country. The Great Depression of the 1920’s saw the prison in use once more as homeless families took up residence, seeking shelter from the elements.
In the years that followed, the prison grew smaller and smaller as local residents saw the stones as free building material for homes and projects. This theft, along with fires, weather and railroad construction destroyed most of what was left of the place. Today, only the cells, the main gate and the tower ... and the ghosts.... remain.
Author Antonio Garcez, who wrote an article on the prison for Ghosts of the Prairie and featured it in his book on Arizona ghost stories, collected many stories of strange incidents and hauntings. Reported by park rangers and staff members at the historical site, the stories often spoke of the “dark cell”, the place of punishment for prisoners unable to follow the rules.
Linda Offeney, a ranger at the prison site, told Garcez about an incident when she sensed a presence in the cell that frightened her. She also told him of a photo that she had in her files that was taken of a female tourist in the 1930’s. While the woman in the photo does not appear out of the ordinary, there is a clear image of a ghostly man behind her and just inside the opening of a cell. This cell, which has since been walled up, was where insane prisoners were housed before being moved to other facilities.
She also told about a writer from the magazine Arizona Highways who came and wanted to do a story about the prison. The writer stated that she wanted to spend two days and nights in the “dark cell”, chained by the foot and with nothing but bread and water to eat and drink. The staff provided her with these things and then placed a heavy blanket over the cell door to keep out all of the sunlight, just as it would have been when the prison was in operation. The writer didn’t last for very long! Within hours, she was calling for help, claiming that “someone” else was in the cell with her!
While no records ever mention that a prisoner died while incarcerated in the “dark cell”, the prison reports do mention that at least two prisoners did leave the cell... only to be transferred immediately to an insane asylum in Phoenix. Could the presence be one of these prisoners, still lingering behind?
In addition to the prison itself being haunted, the offices and museum have also seen their share of strange happenings. Things are often moved about, lights turn on and off and on one occasion, coins from the cash register in the gift shop literally flew into the air and landed back in the drawer!
Some believe that the spirits of prisoners past remain here, perhaps trapped within the walls of the prison itself. For some men, whether it was a humane facility or not, being chained up and jailed was a fate worse than death. Are they now reliving it for all eternity?
(C) Copyright 2001 by Troy Taylor. All Rights Reserved. (Used with written consent from Troy Taylor www.prarieghost.com
From www.shadowlands.net/hauntedplaces
Yuma - Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park - There are two predominate places within the prison that the spirits were active: the dark cell and the visitors' museum. The dark cell hosts a ghost that likes to pinch; attracted to children and the color red. There are supposedly two spirits in the visitors' museum; a woman who sings quite early in the morning and a poltergeist that likes to play with the money; he's attracted to dimes.
Yuma Territorial Prison and Me
© 2003 by Swift Eagle
From http://www.spirithunter.net/research_legends.htm
I grew up in Yuma, the h-l hole of the world, or some may think. It's dry and
hot as the devil there. When I was young my parents dragged me around to every
little drink water ghost town or abandoned mine there were. It was pretty cool!
My Pop was a treasure hunter on the weekends and dreamed of finding the big
stash! He never did, but he had fun looking. When I became a teen, it was a bore
and I'd rather be left behind to go swimming and camping with friends instead.
Now that I'm in my golden years, it's cool again.
Today I am a self-acclaimed psychic and attend a spiritualist church here in
Bellingham. I have come to understand so much more about how I began my journey
as a psychic. The Yuma Territorial Prison was my training ground. I'd like to
share my experience with you if I may.
I was five when my parents moved me with my other siblings to the desert from
MO. Since a young age I actually grew up playing in the prisons graveyard. What
strikes me as funny today, is my parents didn't mind my obsession of the prison
or seeing the joy I felt playing and dancing around the graves. The mounds of
rock and sand that laid upon the unmarked graves were the center of my path as I
danced and looked down into the ground, seeing faces of people of long ago. This
sounds strange today, but at the time it was so natural. I always saw spirits.
Not in every grave, but in some. In the prison I witnessed men in solitaire.
Some would tell me the rattlesnakes that came in to get shade from the hot
desert sun frightened them. They were chained to the floor and had nowhere to
retreat. I walked by iron-latticed gates of cells as men reached out to me to
get my attention. Other people didn't see them like I did. I would look over to
the adults and they were not paying attention to the convict inside. And the
prisoners seemed to only notice me too. One inmate was present every time I went
inside. He was flirtatious and disturbing to me. I always kept my distance from
his door as I walked by. One time I visited the prison and the iron-gate to his
cell was open. Before reaching it, I turned and left in a hurry, asking the
museum person, a tall big man, to shut the door. Someone must have listened to
me cause it was closed on my return.
I have researched the background of the prison since moving to Washington to
gain a better understanding of what I was seeing. As I played and danced around
the graves I was given their names. I often called their names out as if taking
role call. I didn't know at the time, but that was probably what they did while
alive in the prison. At least those that were allowed in the prison yard. It
just all seemed so natural. Of course I'd do that. I didn't feel the women. I
often wondered what happen to the women prisoners? In my research I have found
only one female inmate is buried there. I don't think her spirit ever
accompanied me.
Today I work with people on the local Indian Reservation in the clinic as a
counselor and they take the world of spirits seriously. I'm in good company. I
don't hang around prisons anymore, however my work does take me to the county
jail at times. There are so many spirits and ghosts here to keep me busy the
rest of my life. So let me just say I miss the desert at times, and think of the
Yuma prison fondly, after all it was my boot camp so to speck. I can almost see
the crazy inmate that scared me as a child, and I bet he's still there. I think
some of what I was experiencing was residual energy. I pick up a lot of that!
But some of the ghosts of the Yuma Territorial Prison were intelligent, in other
wards they interacted with me. That crazy one certainly responded to me. It's an
exciting place to visit, and I hope I get a chance to enter the gates again…Just
to see if he's still there!
Submitted by Swift Eagle
Bellingham, WA.
The old Territorial Prison at Yuma, Arizona has witnessed many a strange tale, but none quite as strange as that of John Boot, "the invisible man." Boot is usually overshadowed by his partner in crime, Pearl Hart, sometimes called "the last of the stagecoach robbers" or "the Arizona Bandit Queen." Boot's actual name was John J. Bowen, and he was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, a tiny town just northwest of Fitchburg, in 1874. When John was ten, his family relocated to Kansas City, and it was here that he met 18-year-old Pearl Hart in the summer of 1898. By 1899, the two lovers found themselves in an Arizona mining camp. Tiring of kitchen work, Pearl "convinced him there was more money in robbing stagecoaches than in mining." "On May 30, 1899, Peal and Boot held up the Benson-Globe stage. As Boot collected the loot from the three passengers...Pearl, her long brunette locks stuffed under a hat, trained a six-gun on the driver and the victims." They netted a total of $431. Their bandit careers proved short-lived, however. Days later, the pair were arrested at Poston's Butte, just outside Florence, Arizona by Sheriff William Truman. "At Florence, however, there were no accommodations for women, so Pearl was taken to the Pima County Jail in Tucson to await trial. She remained there only overnight. The next day, the turnkey discovered that Pearl had cut a hole through a thin partition and escaped." "On the same night, John Boot, in some mysterious manner, disappeared from his cell in Florence." True enough! The deputy, bringing Bowen the evening meal, was stunned to find the barred door locked and the cell empty. He quickly opened the door and looked around, testing the bars on the windows. But there was no trace of Bowen. Leaving the cell door wide open, he ran to fetch Sheriff Truman. But Pearl and John's luck ran out again. They were captured two weeks later near Deming, New Mexico by a posse out hunting for cattle rustlers. Both were convicted of robbery. John was sentenced to 35 years in Yuma. Pearl drew a five-year sentence and immediately became a celebrity upon her arrival at the prison. "Pearl was wearing tight jeans, a man's blouse and was smoking a cigarette, all three of which were considered unladylike" back in 1899. "By contrast, Boot was quiet, well-spoken and seemed to sigh with relief when he was separated from his mistress." As the only female inmate in Yuma, Pearl had a custom-made uniform hand-sewed by the wife of the warden, Captain F.S. Ingalls. "Sunday visitors asked her to pose for pictures in the jail yard, and she always obliged." She also caused Capt. Ingalls no end of trouble. "One of her favorite pastimes was to call out through the bars of her cell for some man to come and join her, an invitation which so upset most of the inmates 'that they would howl like coyotes all during the night,'" Capt. Ingalls said. The prison at Yuma is built right up against steep granite bluffs on the banks of the Colorado River. "Boot was a model prisoner. He responded to orders with alacrity. The only thing he volunteered about his background was that his name was not Boot, and his accent indicated that he came from somewhere in New England." "Then one day (in 1901), a little less than two years after he had been admitted, he vanished. He had become so unobtrusive that no one missed him between breakfast and the customary bunk check at night." "No one ever saw him again." One prisoner told a bizarre tale of how he'd seen Bowen near the vertical granite bluff. He said Bowen had stood with his palms facing the rock and had made an unusual humming noise. Then he stepped forward--and vanished. The other inmate hobbled over to the spot as fast as his leg irons would allow. He thought he had seen "Boot" walk into solid rock! But Capt. Ingalls dismissed the man's story, noting that "the fellow is addicted to the liquor habit." There are two curious postscripts to the story of Arizona's "invisible man." In 1939, an American named Elijah Bowen turned up in Madras, India. He was searching, as many tourists do, for the Hidden Masters. He was interned by the British at the same time Mohandas Gandhi and Jawarhalal Nehru were arrested. And where was Mr. Bowen from? None other than Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA. In 1899, right after the robbery, John and Pearl hid out on Poston's Butte during an unusual (for Arizona, anyway) three-day downpour. That particular butte has a strange history. It was purchased by Charles Poston, one of Arizona's earliest pioneers. "In 1863, Poston assumed his duties as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Arizona, an office created especially for him; the following year he was elected delegate to Congress in the first territorial election. After completing his term in Congress, he traveled extensively in Europe and Asia and returned to Florence, Ariz. in 1878. While in India he became a sun worshipper and upon his return built a road, costing several thousand dollars, to the top of this butte, which he called 'Parsee Hill.' and where he erected a pyre of continuous fire as a temple to the sun. After burning for several months, the fire died and the project became Poston's Folly." Two men forty years apart. The same last name. From the same tiny town in Massachusetts. And both with strange unexplained linkages to India. There's a mystery here for anyone who'd care to solve it. (See The Encyclopedia of American Crime by Carl Sifakis, Facts on File Inc., New York, N.Y. 1982, page 317. Also Pioneer Days in Arizona by Francis Cummins Lockwood, Macmillan, New York, N.Y., 1932. Also Lost Legends of the West by Brad Williams and Choral Pepper, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NewYork, N.Y., 1970, pages 30 to 35.)
Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery
Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona
Compiled and contributed by Steve Paul Johnson [steve@freudian.com]. Total records = 112
There were a total of 111 prisoner deaths occurring within the prison. A
total of 104 persons, all prisoners, were buried at the cemetery. Bodies of the
other 7 prisoners were claimed by families. There was a 112th death, that of
Pete Devaux, a convict on his way to Yuma, tried to escape by jumping off the
train, but hit his head on a rock on the way down, and died. Only one female
died in prison, Pearl Eiker.
This page contains a list of the 111 prison deaths, plus the death of Pete
Devaux. I don't know which of the 7 were claimed by family. This information was
compiled by myself from prison records made available to me from the Arizona
State Parks, as well as information on display within the museum.
The Yuma Territorial Prison was the first state penitentiary in Arizona. On July
1, 1876, the first seven convicts entered the prison. Over the next 33 years,
the prison would become home to 3,026 convicts. The prison was under continuous
construction, with labor provided by the prisoners. When the prison ran out of
land to build on, a new facility was built in Florence. On September 15, 1909,
the last prisoners were transferred to Florence.
Burials were simple and quick. A shallow grave was dug where a wooden casket
containing the body was lowered, covered with the caliche soil and then overlaid
with rocks.
The Tucson Citizen printed the following paragraph in their November 24, 1906
edition describing death at the prison:
A Convict's Funeral: Death is the tyrant that strikes fear into the
hearts of most of the convicts. It means those that are not claimed and are
without friends will lie beneath the barren plot just outside the penitentiary -
the convict's cemetery. Piles of rocks shaped like a grave with a plain slab
giving the name and number mark the final resting place. Services are brief at a
convict's funeral. There are no mourners, no tears, no flowers - a simple burial
service by a minister or priest, and that is all.
Forty-six prisoners died of Tuberculosis (Consumption), which tends to circulate
quickly in the densely packed quarters of the prison cell blocks. In later
years, the prison became overcrowded, and often packed as many as 10 prisoners
per cell, which measured about 8 feet by 10 feet.
Most of the grave markers remained intact for as late as 1950. Since then,
nearly all of them were taken by souvenir hunters or deteriorated under the
weather. Only one grave marker has been found, that of J.F. Floyd, which is now
on display inside the prison museum. Grave markers were typically made into a
slab of wood, with the prisoner's name, number, and date of death.
Al Goon, #761, d. 9 Sep 1893, Phithisis
Aldrete, Simon, #2000, d. 16 Aug 1903, Stabbed by another prisoner
Alejandra, #121, d. 24 Fec 1884, Consumption
Alveres, Thomas, #136, d. 4 Jan 1885, Pneumonia
Armbula, Tomas, #1550, d. 1 Feb 1904, Bad physical condition on entering prison
Arnett, William, #1140, d. 26 Oct 1900, Congestion of Lungs
Arvizu, Gregorio, #2001, d. 25 Jun 1906, Consumption
Baca, Antonio, #1531, d. 9 Jul 1900, Typhoid fever
Bat Dish, #699, d. 30 Jul 1897, Consumption, Apache Indian
Brooks, John, #111, d. 8 Sep 1884, Accident - Bank cave in
Brown, John, #1543, d. 3 Oct 1906, Homicide - struck by rock
Bundy, Geo., #431, d. 23 Dec 1888, Heart attack (2nd term)
Bustamente, Ezequiel, #326, d. 27 Oct 1887, Shot - Escape attempt
Camedo, Louis, #434, d. 6 Dec 1889, 90 yrs, Old age
Candelario, Andrew, #226, d. 4 Oct 1886, Consumption
Carebella, Dionocio, #1155, d. 25 Apr 1898, Pneumonia
Carillo, Jesus, #2575, d. 11 Jan 1908, Tuberculosis
Carson, Joe, #2277, d. 29 Dec 1908, Tuberculosis
Chamberlain, F.J., #1553, d. 9 Aug 1901, General Debility
Corrales, Jesus, #30, d. 16 Apr 1885, Phithisis
Day, Charles, #2048, d. 4 Apr 1905, General Debility
Deraux, Peter, #198, d. 2 Dec 1883, Jumped from train in attempt to escape
Dill-Z-Hay, #648, d. 10 Jul 1892, Consumption
Domingo, Guadalupe, #22, d. 12 Dec 1882, Consumption
Dominguez, Bonito, #651, d. 2 Dec 1892, Tumor of Brain
Douglas, William, #2906, d. 30 Nov 1908, Suicide
Edwards, J.M., #2794, d. 19 Jan 1909, Dropsy & Ossification of Liver
Eiker, Pearl, #2616, d. 10 Jan 1908, Obstruction of bowels, Only female to die
in prison
Encino, Angel, #771, d. 29 Feb 1892, From bullet wound - before entering prison
Es Kay Da Pany, #985, d. 18 Mar 1899, Rattlesnake bite
Es Ket Soce, #1778, d. 23 Jul 1902, Consumption
Esh Kay-He, #1863, d. 16 May 1903, Consumption
Eu Des So Da, #666, d. 26 Feb 1897, Consumption
Fleming, John, #138, d. 10 Jul 1883, Falling rocks while excavating
Floyd, J.F., #73, d. 22 Aug 1883, Consumption, Originally from Massachusetts
Fong Ah Inn, #610, d. 16 Apr 1890, Blood poisoning
Gallagher, Charles, #1609, d. 31 Jan 1901, Consumption
Garcia, Francisco, #1747, d. 16 Jun 1905, Legally hanged by Yuma County, Also
known as "Martin Ubillos"
Garcia, Jesus, #1848, d. 4 Jul 1908, Heart Failure
Garcia, Pedro, #1792, d. 28 Jul 1905, Peritonitis
Gis-Ga-Ah, #645, d. 16 Sep 1891, Consumption
Gonzales, Bergino, #1882, d. 20 Sep 1906, Consumption
Gonzales, Francisco, #2025, d. 10 Mar 1904, Bad physical condition on entering
prison
Gonzales, Marcelino, #2583, d. 12 Jul 1909, Bright's Disease
Guadalupe, #701, d. 22 Jan 1897, Tuberculosis
Halsey, J.W., #2034, d. 22 Sep 1904, Pneumonia
Has Cal Te, #691, d. 1 Apr 1894, Consumption
Hasty, H.B., #1476, d. 17 Apr 1899, Consumption
Heenan, Hughie, #1074, d. 12 Jul 1896, 20 yrs, Accident - drowned
Helm, Charles, #674, d. 5 Dec 1892, Heart Failure
Hernandez, Antonio, #1775, d. 12 Jan 1907, Pneumonia
Hernandez, Feliciano, #1540, d. 23 Mar 1902, Ulceration of stomach
Hernandez, Juan, #2658, d. 22 Jun 1908, Tuberculosis
Jacobs, Samuel, #165, d. 9 Aug 1883
Jo No Do, #744, d. 7 Jan 1893, Paralysis of Brain
Jones, Abraham, #1359, d. 16 Apr 1898, Consumption
Juardiola, Miguel, #1480, d. 16 Mar 1900, Escape attempt - shot
Killiland, Daniel, #132, d. 7 Mar 1885, Aneurysm of aorta
Kuen, Tom, #2403, d. 07 Oct 1906, Suicide
Larkin, Joseph, #2146, d. 29 Sep 1904, 76 yrs, General Debility
Laustannau, William H., #2029, d. 20 Aug 1906, Heat prostration, Also known as
"Three Fingered Jack"
Leyvas, Francisco, #2302, d. 10 Nov 1907, Tuberculosis
Loache, #978, d. 26 Feb 1897, Consumption
Lopez, Andrew, #679, d. 8 Aug 1893, Consumption
Lopez, Francisco, #718, d. 17 Apr 1893, Consumption
Lopez, Garbino, #741, d. 25 Aug 1893, Paralysis of Heart
Lopez, Jose, #454, d. 27 Oct 1887, Shot - Escape attempt
Mascon, Pablo, #1546, d. 4 Jun 1900, Tuberculosis
Mendoza, Jose M., #2591, d. 14 Nov 1907, Cancer
Meras, Cornelio, #972, d. 28 May 1899, Consumption
Morales, Santos, #71, d. 21 Apr 1883
Moreno, Jose, #2071, d. 19 Jun 1906, Remittant fever
Moreno, M., #539, d. 28 Dec 1888, Bank cave in
Morin, Daniel, #61, d. 16 Aug 1883
Na E Sah Da, #1884, d. 6 Sep 1906, Tuberculosis
Nas Good, #664, d. 23 Mar 1895, Acute Dysentery
Ocano, Francisco, #1922, d. 6 Mar 1903, Escape attempt - shot
Orosco, Rafael, #1631, d. 24 Jan 1906, Heart Disease
Ortega, Refugio, #1892, d. 5 Aug 1904, Consumption
Otero, Angel, #1496, d. 20 Jul 1909, Tuberculosis
Parra, Guadalupe, #806, d. 23 May 1895, Dropsy & Heart Trouble
Pennington, John, #354, d. 13 Dec 1885, Rec'd dead at prison
Pueblas, Librado, #465, d. 27 Oct 1887, Shot - Escape attempt
Quong, Sing, #474, d. 9 Jun 1888, Suicide (hanging)
Ramirez, Cisto, #1958, d. 8 Mar 1903, Escape attempt - shot
Ramirez, Diego, #1111, d. 11 Nov 1896, Consumption
Ramirez, Jose, #208, d. 28 Dec 1885, Escape attempt - shot
Ramon, Jose, #261, d. 18 Apr 1885, Diarrhea
Robles, Ynocente, #1917, d. 25 May 1907, Tuberculosis
Rodriguez, Samuel, #1539, d. 20 Oct 1908, Tuberculosis
Rogers, James F., #1388, d. 2 Sep 1898, Consumption
Rojo, Pedro, #1226, d. 28 Feb 1899, Pleurisy of effusion
Ruibal, Juan, #38, d. 27 Mar 1883,
Russel, Richard, #120, b. Iowa, d. 1 Nov 1882, First death in prison
Ryan, John, #1660, d. 6 May 1903, Suicide, Also known as "Dan"
Salvaterra, Guadalupe, #1904, d. 5 Jan 1905, Consumption
Samaripa, Fortunato, #2073, d. 9 Feb 1908, Tuberculosis
Say Es, #694, d. 29 Mar 1894, Consumption
Silvas, Ygnacio, #2286, d. 30 Oct 1905, Obstruction of bowels
Smith, John, #2131, b. Scotland, d. 10 Oct 1907, Suicide
Soto, Jose R., #1891, d. 30 Apr 1904, Tuberculosis
Soto, Manuel, #1606, d. 30 Apr 1903, Consumption
Stapleton, James, #1561, d. 17 Mar 1900, Heart Failure
Valdez, Urbano, #1997, d. 17 Nov 1907, Tuberculosis
Valencia, Meriano, #768, d. 14 Mar 1893, Phithisis
Vasquez, Fernando, #467, d. 27 Oct 1887, Shot - Escape attempt
Verdugo, Trinidad, #696, d. 9 Jun 1891, Acute Catarrh
Waters, Donald, #1643, d. 5 Aug 1904, Consumption
We-Kin-Ga, #665, d. 18 Jan 1893, Bronchitis
Whatuaquam, #1781, d. 17 Mar 1903, Consumption
Wilson, Henry, #1503, d. 8 Mar 1907, Tuberculosis