May to 25 June 1914 · Haitianspan
Fourteen hostages are shot at La Fossette in a single day
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Money reached Davilmar Théodore from Antoine Simon's dairy farm in Kingston, and weapons and recruits from Desiderio Arias across the Dominican border. From the French legation, where he had taken asylum, Vilbrun Guillaume was quietly organising support for Théodore against the Zamors. By the end of May 1914 the plain between Cap-Haïtien and Ouanaminthe was full of Cacos. The American consul Livingston drove round through Montecristi to Ouanaminthe on 21 May to see whether terms were possible, and was told they would sooner see the country perish ten times over than leave the Zamors in place. On 19 June Roger Farnham wired Bryan that rebels held Bahon, Grande Rivière and Lacombe, that the railway station had been taken, telephone and train service cut, two men shot and that day's trains probably captured. Trou had fallen the day before. From the Cap you could watch the plain burn, as people there had watched it burn in 1791. Charles Zamor answered by shooting townsmen he suspected, fourteen of them at La Fossette on 25 June.
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