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PRESIDENT OF

LIFE IN WRECK OF PALACE

Estimated That Casualty List Will Reach 40C

Persons Great Panic Followed Powder Ex

plosions at Early Morning Hour.

Port Au Prince. Ilayti, Aug. 3. The national palace was

blown up by a powder explosion and burned to the ground

to-day and the President of the republic of Ilayti, General Cin

cinnntus Lecontc, perished. The members of his family, who were

awakened by the terrific shock, found themselves almost sur

rounded by flames, but managed to make their way to safety.

The first explosion was followed by others when the fire

reached the cellars of the palace where a great quantity of am

munition was stored. So creat was the force of the explosion

that a number of small cannon, fragments of irou aud shellg

were thrown for great distances in all directions.

Mauy of tho palace attendants were killed, and it is esti

mated that the casually list will reach four hundred persona

killed or injured.

For a time a great panic prevailed and the military author

ities immediately took charge of the situation. The explosions

occurred shortly after three o'clock in the morning and within

an hour, when the fire, which was confined to the palace, was

extinpuished, the structure was a mass of ruins and it was im

possible to recover the body of the president.

At a joint meeting of the Chamber and Senate this afternoon

General Tancrede Aufruste, senator and ex-minister of public

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Burlington weekly free press. (1912). Burlington, Vt., 1912-08-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86072143/1912-08-15/ed-1/?sp=14

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