Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-26
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Logiti mest Gun-Bpnta Dombard Cape
Hayti, Doing Much Damage to the
Town, sud Killing Number Of People
Their Fire Returned anu They Are
Forced TO Ratreat.. IS sgt Il.
# New YoRK, Dec. 10 Passengers on the
steamer Saginaw which arrived here
Tuesday afternoon from San Domingo re-
port that on December S Legitime's men
Of war bonn barded Cape Hayti, Aftergrant.
ing thirty-six hours time for Consuls and
other foreigners to leave the place. About
Atty shots were fired. The natives were
fleeing to the mountains when the Saginaw
sailed. ~
The gun boats dropped anchor four or
five miles of the shore, lying broadside to
the town, The guns OF these vessels we're
ut first charged with blank cartridges
which were shot of as a notice Of the war
like intention Of the feet The people fed
into the hills taking with them as much Of
their prof erty as they could carry. Mules
were in great demand, and as the supply
was limited to fifty or sixty, fabulous
prices were paid for their use by the
wealthy residents, in some instances 800
being paid for the use Of ono OF the
animals for one afternoon. Those of the
poorer classes who owned mules preferred
hiring them out to using Thorn to save
their own goods. 49,
At the expiration of the thirty-six hours
time given for foreign Consuls to leave
the CITY the bombardment was com.
meaced in earnest. The bombarding yes
sells were the Dassoines, Belize. Tous-
saint, LOuverture and one other, name
unknown. The Toussaint fired the first
shot, which bur ed itself in the sand on
the beach in front of the frail bamboo
houses Of tho poorer class. The other YES.
sells followed suit and fired wildly. In
few minutes, however, the shots began
to tear through the town, demolishing TIE
bamboo huts and damaging the stronger
stone houses. Despite the warning they
had received to leave the town. many OF
tho residents chung to their habitations
In fact, it had been impossible to re-
move many of the sick within the
time allowed by the Legitimists
White flags were placed On all houses
in which were sick persona, but this did
not seem to have any effect upon the gun
ners. None of the passengers of the Sag
nav can say how many persons were
killed but it is thought that at least fl
teen or twenty lives had been lost up tt
the time Of the sailing Of the Saginaw
Legit.me is said to be losing the conf
dence OF the people whose sympathles are
now with the North.
On the 9th the gun-boats ventured a little
further in shore, and proceeded with The
bombardment, congratulatng themselvet
on their success 30 far. But their delight
did not last long. Puff came little cloud
OF smoke from the fort, and o rebel shell
dropped into the water not ia,
from tie bombarding vessel The
first shell from the fort was
quickly followed by others fairly-wel
armed. This was something the officers OF
the gun-boats had not counted upon, and
after firing four shells altogether Legi
times squadron turned tail and ran out to
sea. Soon after they disappeared beyond
the horizon, leaving the insurgents to bring
their families home in safety. This wa.
the finale Of the first attempt to lombard
the stronghold of the North. *.