They had crowbars and they had cans of giant powder, which they had appropriated from a hardware store.

If Steele had a jailer he was not in evidence.

The door was wrenched off and Bo Snecker, evidently not wholly recovered, brought forth to his cheering comrades.

Then some of the rustlers began to urge back the pressing circle, and the word given out acted as a spur to haste.

The jail was to be blown up.
The crowd split and some men ran one way, some another.