Show six hundred and fifty balk at vaccination and refuse to leave ship asking for death in preference colon oct 1 six hundred and fifty laborers from martinique brought here friday on tha french steamer versailles under contract to work on the canal refused to disembark or to submit to watch Is imperative under the american regulations ahey clamored to be taken back to assorting that they bad been misinformed a to the conditions here before they embarked and that later they learned these conditions were intolerable and deadly ye moraine however of wre with difficulty persuaded to land nd thee were abent to points along the una of the canal one hundred and fifty remained on board and declined to leave the ship ander any consideration niese were forcibly ejected from the this afternoon by and zone police but not until nearly every one of them had been clubbed aahl were bleeding from nasty cots all of yesterday and last night the was guarded by policemen early this rooming the french consul at colon H jonhenry Bon henry appealed to qua man to reason ing that ther had left martinique un dar contract the caamal zone emigration agent guaranteeing the payment of their passage here and that while working on the canal they would have to to their wages the guarantee of tree quarters and tree medical attendance iho men however were not to this reasoning notwithstanding the appeal of the connul of aad american officials the information given them by several of their countrymen and other conditions on aba island was tory and the lenaa bojt abet employ enable money they persistently to sav the ship baring their and invoking death in to ashore the of the through the dle played an yx amount of matteace pat teace told the man be wag ready to take back to martinique who able to pay tiela passage fant tha men argued that the french government would ba to tho steamship compaan and that they were before noon at the instance of M baver tho agent of th compact com panT and the french consul with a squad ai twelve police went on board the any told the men that or vroile lie used it they eted in their refusal to disembark at he were armed with bayoneta bayo aeta abid eulsa the men abam bared their breasts and said they preferred death rathar than be taken ashore governor melendez mayor aldron the chief of polica and others argued with the men but again without effect ten additional policemen amrei at the wharf bu the governor wished to avoid bloodshed and considering that the police force was insufficient telegraphed to president amador asking permission to use the canal zone police to which tha president cons entea keean while twel y e policemen from the zone had arri vedat tho dock landwere and were being held in nest at 2 the laborers were informed that they boum be given two hours to reconsider their decision and at 4 three of to disembark heathers he others still holding oat then tho police armed willi clubs approached the laborers and on their refusing to quit the ship began to club them right ana left the fw later assisted in tha clubbing but with butr ar judgment ana iea ly of leahl lea nl into the aea but all of the men w jibb to the howa fSr lowered a bot wiloh picked yearly very man had reeled reel wd blows and several of them bleed tag tforia thear wounds seeing that resistance was useless the men iamo ashore and bagan to eat the food that had been placed on the dock in sight of them for several hours many of them had not eaten since saturday at 5 all the laborers who were in a pitiable wore placed on board a train which left tor cortozal corozal Co rozal where they will be put to work ficula to extinguish dwelta the desperate efforts of the troops the fire was at 1 clock and spread rapidity it was probably of incendiary origin the loss is variously estimated at from to |