The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-11
'CAsABLANCA HORROR SIGHTS
Arabs Killed One Another in Seek
ing Plumber.
Correspondent Lkens Scenes to Mont
Pelee or San Francisco After "
the Earthquake.

London.-Belated Casablanca dis
patches reaching here draw terrible
pictures of the scenes Of desolation
and horror there, besides confirming
the seriousness of the danger while
the Arabs were fiercely attacking the
Consulates, owing to the adequately
small force landed from the French
cruiser Du Chayla for their defense.
It seems that, having completely
plnndered the Moorish and Jewish
quarters and LISTING for further
plumber, the Arabs found that they
must first Of all drive away the
guards around the Consul: :, which
would place the European shops and
stores at their mercy.
It needed all of the courage and
resource of Lieutenant De Tyssiers,
who with thirty men, was sent ashore
from the French cruiser Galilee to
saw the situation. The Arabs be-
came so bold and determined that
they succeeded in occupying a desert
ed French hotel, o high stone build
ing inside the British Consulate line
and also close to the Spanish Con-
sulate, from which they poured a
furious rifle fire. Smaller houses
zeal both Consulates were similarly
occupied. It was then that Lieutenant
De Tyssiers decided upon a sortte.
His small but brave band returned
from the sortie with dripping bayo-
nets, having taken the Arabs COM
pletely by surprise. Soon afterward
another officer from the~Du Chayls
arrived with a machine gun, which
was placed Imposition upon"the.roof
and did effective execution. Even
then the ARABS. continuedSth their at
lacks undeterred, and twas only
upon the arrival Of additional war
ships that the fighting ended.
One correspondent thus describes
what followed: \.
by evening the town was clear
Of Arabs except those in hiding, who
were unable to escape. Then began
a second series of pillages. The Span
iards came first, each man guarding
his own shop and robbing his neigh
boris. Then the Jews crept timidly
from their hiding places and began
to prowl' about, looting whatever they
could. When the Foreign Legion
was distributed through the town. to
preserve order, then came the final
and most thorough pillage Of all"
The same correspondent says that
not even San Francisco after the
earthquake gave such an impression
of horror, and a French officer who
was present at Martinique during the
eruption of Mont Pelee said that
Casablanca vas infinitely more aw-
full. The Arabs seemed to have been
equally possessed Of the lust and
plumber frenzy and Of wanton desire
flor the destruction of property. They
went through houses, tearing down
and smashing everything i'm their
search for property. In the back
parts Of the town French shells
wrought infinitely less death and de-
struction than Arab bullets and
knives.
Corpses, stabbed, gashed and bat
tered, were scattered about, while
enormous bullet holes, blackened
with powder, showed where men died
at short range by Arab weapons!
Many thus killed were huge limbed
Arabs, p%lunderers who had fought
among themselves for the loot and
killed each other in the attempt to
escape along. narrow lanes when
French reinforcements were landed.
In this mad stampede many were
~trampled to death.
According to other correspondents
1000 Jews have fed to the country.
where their fate Is uncertain. Two
hundred Jewish girls were carried
off by Arabs and more than 100 Jews
were slain in the most horrible a
'ner. Even women and children were
killed with the greatest brutality.
when they refused o r were unable
to reveal the hiding places OF money.
Survivors are now creeping out, with
wailings and lamentations, seeking
food anon; the debris.
Frightful misery has been caused
by a shortage of food, which sold az
famine prices. Looters are now shot
on sight, many having already PAID
the penalty for their crimes. Prop
erty estimated at $~2,500,000 has been
destroyed. .;