Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-06-16
The fine town of Santiago, about 60

The fine town of Santiago, about 60
miles distant IN ilLe interior, aud the cen
ire Of our agricultural commerce in this
pait, has been entirely destroyed. The
population consisting OF about 6 900 souls,
Of which 500 are buried in the ruins
farther in The interior the towns Of Vega
aud ST. Oscro have met with similar iates.
The city Of Cape Haytien, The deposit OF
all the agricultural products Of its fine
plain, the capital OF the Northern part OF
The island, the FIST city in Hayti for the
beauty and solicity Of its buildings, and
the second only in size aud Importance,
has met with utter destruction, and is one
immense mass OF crulnbling ruin.
"A gentleman who left Immediately af-
ter the disaster informed me that so sud
den had been the catastrophe, that hard.
ly three seconds were allowed Ia escape
from the houses. Thousands were bmii-
ed alive, and no relief at hand. Cries
OF agony and shIieks would now and then
proceed from ihe buildings and break the
solemn stiffness Of the night. Many
dead and purified bodies were lying IN
the streets and nobody TO remove them.
The air was tainted with tho infection,
and pest seemed quietly settling over
the city.
ela May.-Since writing the forego-
ing farther intelligence has reached Us
from the Cape, which has materially
added to The horrors of its former situa-
'ion. Hundred of individuals, pouring
IN rom the country, commenced upturn"
ing the crumbling ruins, and drawing
from thence all the merchandise and
valuables of whatever kind they could
lay hold of, despatched the same to their
different hiding places. Opposition was
for some tir.e useless, aud summary
execution was necessarily resorted to by
the authorities to strike d sautary terror
Many OF the marauders were shot, and
now, TO crown the whole with the exlrein.
lty of horror, slow fire, which had
arisen and had been gradually creeping
onward from the time Of the catastrophe,
spread at once into general conhagra-
tion, consuming what had escaped the
former calamity and The sacrilegious
hands Of pilage.
Hundreds had taken refuge on board
the ships in the harbor, with the trliling
effects which an agonizlng haste suffered
them TO lay hold Of, t"g gether with as ma
ny OF the manned and wounded as weIe
thus favored by their good fortune. -
The other towns and villages besides our
own and those enumerated above, which |
have most seriously suffered (some OF
which are entirely demoIished) are Porto
Paix, Gonaives, St. Mare, Mole St.
Nicholas, ST. Louis du Nord, Fort Dau-
ohin, Limbeport Margot, Borgnc, La
Grande Riviere, Laxavon and Altamira,
which together with Porto Plata, Cape
Santiago, ST. Osero and La
Vega before mentioned, make in all II
towns and villages, with loss of lives in
nearly all. ii is impossible to convey an
adequate idea of :he severity OF the
blow which will be given to commercial
interests in general, through all their
and notifications years
will be required to restore matters to
heir former footing.
1t will be equally difficult to coniec-
nre at what period the signs Of ravages
will be removed and the towns and cities /
gain approach their former condition.
SIDNEY CROSS,
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