The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-19
from EUROPE.
Reported Communist Victories.

LONDON, May 10. - A despatch from
Paris, dated the 18th, says the Versaillists
attacked Fort Montrouge on that day. Rein
forcements reached the garrison while the fight
ing was in progress, and the attack was not
only repulsed but several cannon were captured
by the Federals.
An attack by Versailles troops on the village
of Vanvres was also repulsed, and the Versail-
lists were beaten in the Bois de Boulogne, and
before the Maiot gate. The latter has been
destroyed. The Versailles flag floats over Van
vres.
BERLIN, May 49,
Prince Bismarck
leaves to-day for Frankfort, where he will meet
Favre and Ponyer- -Quertier, for the purpose of
exchanging the ratifications of the treaty of
peace.
The Duke of Edinburgh's Trip Round the
World.
LONDON, May 19.-The steam frigate Galatea,
Captain the Duke of Edinburgh, has arrived in
English waters from the trip around the world.
LONDON, May 19.-The Daily Ne,os special
despatch gives report that the
Versaillfsts Have Occupied CIichy,
and that sharp engagement was fought at
Asnieres.
1t is rumored that the Versailles troops
attempted to storm the Dauphine gate of Paris
and were repulsed.
A Paris journal says that the
Duke de BrOgiie
will replace NJ. Fayre in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs after the ratification of the treaty of
peace.
The Times special despatch says that the
National Guards stopped the services in st.
Augustine and Trinity Churches and turned the
Sisters of Mercy out of their convent.
The Federals have beaten Versailles troop
in the Geological Gardens.
The Prussians are near Confans PArcheveque,
in the Department of the Seine.
Details Of the Cartridge Factory Explo-
sion.
PARIS, May 1S, Morning, via Boulogne, May
| Is, Evening. loss of life by the explosion
| of the cartridge factory on the Avenue Rapp,
| Champs de Mars was mainly ameng women
| and children.
A General Rush to the Scene.
The conclusion was felt throughout the city,
| and caused the greatest CONSERVATION. Gncer-
| tain what had occurred thousands rushed in
| the direction of the columns of white smoke.
The entire population seemed to be on the
streets, all filed with amazement, terror, and
curiosity.
de Mars, rushing away, as If they were mad,
from the scene, with their children and valua-
bles. Some of them were helping the wounded
The Burning Factory.
At the head of the Avenue Rapp the scene
was terrible one. several houses were Durn-
ing, and the rattle of exploding cartridges was
incessant; fret there would be brilliant blaze
and then a loud explosion. From the base OF
the cartridge factory there shot upward fearful
mass of fire and smoke
The Wounded and Dying.
Hundreds and thousands of cartridges, crack
ing and rattling, one after the other, mingled
with terrific shrieks from the wounded and
frightened. Nearly all those injured were
women and children. The few men employed
in the building were either killed or fearfully
wounded. Mutilated forms were to be seen on
every side groaning and writhing with agony.
Despair and Terror.
Across the great place of the InValides, VI
and down the neighbOring streets ran the terror
stricken multitude, shrieking out the names o
mothers wives, and sisters. L saw aged womeI
wringing their hands in despair at the sudden
and overwhelming calamity which had befalleI
them. Uncertainty OF the situation increased
the terror everywhere.
A FrightfuI Spectacle.
For distance of several hundred yards you
! correspondent assisted in placing upon stretch
ers the heads, limbs, and mutilated trunks o
the hapless victims of the explosion. On one
skirt, and on the finger of one hand was a wed
ding ring, showing that the unfortunate woman
was wife, and probably mother, whose chill
dren had shared her fate.
Human Pulp.
Higher up the street a mass of human
debris. One body was scarcely more than 81
much pulp blackened by powder 1t was alto
gether the most sickening spectacle that ca
; be imagined, and caused thrill of horror l.
pass throueh all whe witnessed 1t.
Other Magazines In Danger.
At half-past 6 O'clock in the evening a fore
: of cavalrymen were ordered to drive away tn
q crowd from the vicinity, as there are seyera
= other mszaznes In the neighoorhood, and
. was feared that the Fire Department would b
= unable TO arrest the flames, and that they to
would explode.
Panic Feared.
r All traffic on the bridges has been stopped
t and panic among the troops is feared. Re
L quisiuons have been made upon all the stree
cabs.