Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-11
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GREAT VICTORY REPORTED FOR
LEGITIME IN HAYTI.
Terrible Domestic Tragedy New
York Federal Appointment
Girls Tired of Life.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-us,os. ]
FIGHTING IN HAYTI.
Hippolyte Worsted In Terrible Battle
With Legitime.

With Legitime.
NEW YORK, March 10th.-The steamer
Colsan has arrived with Haytian advices to
March Sd. Captain Frazer of the Colsan
reports: "Just before leaving Port De Paix
we learned that terrible battle had been
fought between the forces of Legitime and
Hippolyte thirty-ive miles from that place.
The latter was routed after a sanguinary
combat lasting several hours. Nearly 200
were killed and wounded on each side.
Afterward Legitime's soldiers robbed their
enemies, dead and wounded Legitime is
daily gaining victories"
For two hours the battle ragged. The
ammunition of Hippolyte's troops rapidly
giving out, many of them threw down
their guns and fed. Hippolyte personally
rushed to the front and begged them to
continue the battle, but the men fed to
the woods the victorious troops in hot
pursuit.
Then the massacre began. Many of Hip
polyte's men implored General Duouesne's
men not to kill them but to take them
prisoners. Their appeals were in vain, as
Legitime had given orders to kill every
man. His orders were faithfully obeyed,
and everyone of Hippolytes men who
was overtaken was ruthlessly butchered.
TRAMPLIHG OVER MUTILATED BODIES.
Many were beheaded. Darkness stopped
the bloody murder. The fugitive who
brought the news of this atrocity said he
hid himself in the brush, and when Le-
gitime's men had withdrawn, started for ST..
Marc and fled across the battle field. He
stumbled and fell over heads severed from
the bodies of the men. The corpses were
cut and hacked in horrible manner. and
some were so mutilated as to be hardly
recognizable.
The following day Hippolyte rallied few
men and attacked Legitime's troops, with
terrible loss.
no QUARTER.
New YORK, March 10th.-The World to-
morrow will contain the following: The
steamer Coban arrived in this port yester-
day, bringing the news of bloody battle
between Legiiime's and Hippolyte's forces,
and massacre by the victors. Captain
Frazer brought copy of La Pdtrie, the Hip
polyte organ, published on February 23d.
at Gonaives, and containing an account of
the battle and massacre at Grand Saline.
The Hippolyte forces in this city were COM
manded by Generals Nom Point and Jean
Meserau. Legitime's army began the at
tack on the enemy's outposts early in Feb
| ruary. They were repulsed several times.
but finally succeeded in carrying them.
and few days later were masters of the
city and General Meserau's sword.
PILLAGE AND MASSACRE.
Legitime's men were so elated over their
success that they immeditely commenced
to pillage the town. A drunken soldier
shot one of the prisoners for some trifiing
matter. This was the signal for general
| outbreak on the part of the soldiers. They
rushed at the prisoners, shooting and
stabbing them right and left The prison.
ers begged hard and piteously for mercy,
but their cries were laughed at and the
killing went on, quarter being allowed to
none. Never before has such
PITIABLE SIGHT
Been presented. The murdered men Law
| about huddled in scores. Some were
| frlghtfully hacked and mutilated, many of
| the blood-frenzied soldiers having run
| amuck even among the corpses, plunging
their swords again and again into the
| bodies of the slain.
General Meserau tried to stay The butch
! cry, but he was laughed at and warned not
| to interfere if he wished to live. When
! lack of victims stayed the butchers, thew
robbed the dead and looted and burned
the town. Nearly the whole place, SAYS
La Petrie, is in ruins.
| Captain Frazer thinks the city must have
been burned between February 2Sth and
March 1st.