The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-03
General Simon and Ragged
Band of 5000 Insurgents
Are Nearing City and May
Arrive Tonight.
NORD ALEXIS DEPOSED
Finds Refuge on French War
ship After Fight Through
.Mobs Which Sought His
Life.

Port Au Prince, F1ayt1, Dec. SIN a
bloody battle between an infuriated
mob OF residents of this city and the
regular government troops during the
might, twelve men were killed and as
many others wounded. The troops had
been called upon to suppress a band
OF vandals who were pillaging the
homes and business places OF those
who had remained friendly to the de-
posed president. The pillaging began
shortly before midnight. Maddened
with rum, which they had by the, hogs
head, stolen from warehouses, the mob
built bonfires and carried the fire and
looting to all quarters. On appeals
from the residents and the foreign le-
cations for protection, Provisional
President Legitime ordered the troops
to shoot down the pillagers. The sit
uation was brought under control on
1y after much resistance from the
maddened plunderers. Gen. Simon
and his army OF 5000 ragged men are
expected to arrive this evening.
The mob. which had been baked in
its attempt to assassinate President
Nord Alexis, sought to wreak ven
geance upon his supporters. Bon.
fires we're lighted, hogsheads of rum
rolled into the streets and broken open
while revengeful mobs shouted fmpre-
cations upon the fleeing president.
Appeal was made to the various le-
cations by the foreign residents who
feared their property would suffer.
Appeal was carried then to the head
quarters of the provisional govern
ment and then General Legitime gave
his order to shoot. When the govern
ment military prepared to suppress the
\rapine and plundering, mobs became
even more maddening and throwing
stones and clubs, they sought to fight
back the troops, but few volleys sent
the vandals retreating to shelter.
1t is not known how many were
wounded In addition to those killed,
to be very large.
Daybreak Tells Story.
Daybreak offered sorry spectacle in
those quarters which had been pillag-
ed. Smouldering ruins marked the
places where many business buildings
formerly stood and merchandise had
been carried into the streets and dump
ed In heaps. Windows had been
smashed and costly furnishings had
been piled into bonfires and wantonly
destroyed. The city today is compar'
atively quiet.
President Nord ALEXIS, who has rul-
ed Hayti since 1902. has been deposed
and is now safe on board the French
training ship Duguay Trauin, and Port
.Au Prince is in the hands of the revo
lutionists. General Antoine Simon
the leader of the insurgents, is march,
ing up the peninsula with an army OF
5000. and a new president, General
Legitime. has been proclaimed.
At the last moment, President Alex
Is who is 81 years old, yielded to the
urging of those about him and decided
to take refuge aboard the French wal
ship. At precisely 5 O'Clock a salute
of twenty-one guns announced his de.
had gathered there early in the day
and surged around the entrances
threatening to tear down the walls tC
drive out the president and his loya
followers. AS the hours passed the
great mob became infuriated, shoutins
for him to leave the country. The
' mob was armed, and men and women
beside themselves with rage, heapet
curses on the head of the aged mar
VIII had been deposed from the pres
idency, but who had fiercely expressed
his determination to fight to the last.
Foreign ENJOYS Step In.
So serious was the situation tha
the French minister. NJ Carteron, ant
other foreign representatives, togeth
er with members of a special com
mittee, forced an audience with the
president, who finally consented I,
withdraw. Shouts greeted him as h,
stepped from the precincts Of the pal
ace and into carriage which hat
been provided. NJ Carteron. carryin,
the French tricolor sat beside him
and the minister threw the folds o