Port-au-Prince. Fire burns 27 of 30 blocks and 500 houses, losses of 50 million livres tournois; men and women of color massacred.

The fire did not cease its ravages until 48 hours had passed. Twenty-seven of the town’s 30 îlets fell prey to the flames; 500 houses were burned, and the losses rose to 50 million livres tournois. The freedmen, indignant at the perfidious conduct of the citizens of Port-au-Prince toward them, no longer kept any measure with the whites.