Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-03
NIGHT OF TERROR
IUfurlsied Mob PiIIage Business B0uses in Port Au Prluce
 Until BeId Up
ONE BRAVE GENERAL

Port au Prince, Dec 3, s a. m.- The stirring eventss of an exciting day that saw President Nord Alexis driven from his capital with an in- furiated mob at his heels, were fol- lowed by a night of footing and pill lage in Port au Prince
 The passions of the populace had been aroused and after being defeat. ed in their endeayors to do bodily harm to Nord Alexis their attention was turned to we'll stocked store- houses and the residences of the sup porters of their late president. They were rapidly getting out of hand when the authorities succeeded in controlling the situation, twelve men were killed before order was re- store.
 The trouble began shortly after the president had been escorted to the French cruiser Duguay Trouin by M Carteron, the French minister.
 People from the Blair and Salines section of the city invaded the busi- ness quarter and lost no time in turn ing to the work of pillage and rob- bery. They divided into bands and worked their way down one street and up another breaking into the stores that offered the best chances of loot. The locks of doors that barred their progress were blown out with rifle bullets.
 The pillage was well under way by s o'clock and by 10 o'clock eleven stores had been completely ,ooted One of the establishments belonged to Syrians, while Haitiens were the owners of the other two stores. The proprietors stood by helplessly and witnessed the destruction of their property.
 Goods were hauled out into the street and divided among the mob. The crowd quarrelled over the divis- ion of the spells and were soon fight. ing among themselves.
 In these encounters four men were killed. At 10 o'clock the situation was very threatening. The looters were increasing rapidly in numbers and it was feared that the disorder would spread over the entire city. The people were rapidly getting out of hand when General Poldevin ap- hn hn situation. He went first to the ! lice headquarters and ordered de- tachment to follow him to the scene of the trouble. The police, however, refused. The general then got to- gether number of courageous citi- zens to whom he issued arms and rounded up also a small detachment of loyal soldiers and at the head of this body of men he marched on the looters.
 The pillagers were unaware of his approach and the first intimation that they were to meet any opposi- tion came to them in the shape of volley from General Poidevin's con- mand. Eight of the looters fell at tHiS uFSL ire. 1HiS OIlSlduSnt DfOke the spirit of the mob and as the gen. eral threatened to fire again the crowd quickly dispersed. While this was going on in the business district another mob was taking advantage of it's opportunities to loot the rich residential section of the city.
 At II o'clock the seminary of the priests was surrounded by menac- ing crowd demanding that General Cocoon be turned over to them. The priests replied that the general was not there. Word was quickly sent to General Poidevin of the threaten ing situation at the seminary. He forward at the head of the detachment of citizens and soldiers that had put down the disorder in the business section and on his ar rival the crowd dispersed.
 General Poidevin has been very highly commended for his firm stand which undoubtedly saved the city from a general outbreak of pillase and ipnaudtoricy,