The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-12
FIRST EDITION
THE FALL OF THE COMMUNE.
Terrible SCenss in Paris.
letter from Victor Hugo.
BetrothaI in High Lifes
Fred. Grant and Princess Beatrice.
New. Arctic Expedition.
ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC., Etc., Etc.
BetrothaI in High Life.
THE HORRORS OF VICTORY.

Desperate Acts of the Female Insurgents.
Parts (Nay 16) Correspondence Of the London Times
took walk down the Rue Rivoli towards
the Hotel de Vile, to judge of the amount of
damage done, and at the corner of the Rue Cas-
tiglione became aware of the approach of a
great crowd yelling and shaking their fists. The
cortege was headed by company of mounted
gendarmes, behind whom came two artillery
men, dragging between them soied bundle of
rags that tottered and struggled, and fell down
under the blows that were showered upon 1t by
all who were within reach. 1t was woman,
who had been caught in the act of spreading
petroleum. Her face was bleeding and her
hair streaming down her back, from which her
clothing had been torn. On they dragged her,
followed by hooting mob, till they reached the
corner of the Louvre, and there they
propped her up against wall, already
half dead from the treatment she
had received. The crowd ranged itself in cir
Gle, and have never seen picture more per-
feet and complete in its details than was pre-
sented by that scene. The gasping, shrinking
figure in the centre, surrounded by crowd who
could scarce be kept from tearing her in pieces,
who waved their arms, crying Drown her!
drown her!" on one side barricade, still strewn
with broken guns and hats-a dead National
Guard lying in the fosse--behind a group of
mounted gendarmes and then a perspective of
ruined streets and blackened houses. eliminating
in the extreme distance in the still burning
Hotel de Vile. Presently two revolvers were
discharged and the bundle of rags fell forward
in pool of blood. The popular thirst for ven-
geance was satisfied and so the crowd dispersed
in search of further excitement elsewhere.
How the Palaces and Private Residences
Were Fired.
Paris MAY 26 Correspondence Of the London Neros.
Paris shall not exist, if Paris does not belong
to the Commune. Such was their bellish re-
solve, and they proceeded to carry out their
threat of destroying the capital which they
could not retain. They set to work in three
distinct ways. In the palaces and public offices
which they commanded they disposed at regu-
lar intervals sometimes bottles sometimes pots
of petroleum. When the vessels of petroleum
were arranged at proper distances, one of them
would be overturned and ignited; the flames
would rapidly spread, aud the whole building
would soon be past salvation. 1t was in this
way that the Tuileries the Palais Royal, the
Hotel de Vile, the Palace of the Legion
were set in flames This arrangement was all
made in the Ministry of Marine, but the wretches
engaged in the work of destruction had to fly
before they could set fire to the pots of petro-
leum which they had planted in the most likely
corridors. There was second method adopted
for the destruction of private houses. When IL
became necessary to retire from particular
barricade, the Guards tore to pieces the beds
which formed part of the barricade; took the
tow out of the beds, dipped 1t in petroleum, and
loaded their guns with il. Then they fred the
tow into the windows of the houses. 1t was in
this way that the block of houses in the Rue
Royale, facing the Madeleine, was set on fire.
Still q third method:-Men and women were
going about Paris with bottles of petroleum in
their pockets, or HID about their dresses They
threw these bottles down into the ground-1oors
of every dwelling they could get at. If there
was no room for the bottle to get through, the
neck of the bottle could get into certain air
holes which belong to the construction OF
French houses; the liquid would be poured in,
and q lighted match would be sent in after it.
In this way very many private houses were set
in flames; and many hundreds of women were
taken in the act all day-some OF them shot upon
the spot.
rro1icat EFate ~ the Commuptsf Teaders
Parts MAY 30 correspondence of the London Times
The Government troops are vindictive, if not
even brutal, in following up their victory: A
trio OF the Communist leaders was captured on
Thursday night. They were Jules Valles
Ferre, and Longuet. Wales was made prisoner
after the others, in rear of the Theatre du Cha
telet. His comrades had been taken very shortly
before. Wales was dragged forward by the
Versaillists, and one of their non-commlssioneC
officers struck him upon the neck with his
sword. In his anger and agony Wales struck
back, and Immediately an extemporary
shooting party was drawn up, and free
But Wales had the bad taste no
to die off at once; he writhed, and twisted, auC
groaned upon the ground, until nearly all who
were within sight and hearing had to avert thei
eyes and move away from the sight of his mos
horrible suffering. The captain commanding the
firing party told me that "TheY let him suffel
on purpose" His fellow-captive Ferre, who's,
doom was but deferred, cried out, "Oh! cap
pain" and the appeal was SO far successful
that the captors then shot their prisoner dead.
Lefrancais, Gambon, and Ameureux we're sho
in the Rue de la Banque, against the wall of tn
Stamp Office. Raoul Rigault finished his day
in the courtyard of the Eeole Militaire. Cour
bet, the painter, who ordered the destruction O
the Vendome Column, was found hiding in
cupboard, not quite large enought0 conceal him
in the Ministry of Finance and, attempting
some resistance was. according to some reports
shot on the spot. Maljournal who has boaste
ever since the fatal 22d of March, when the part
of order was fired upon in the Rue de la Pail
that he gave the order, has net the fate whic
he so richly merits.
Dombrowsk died in the bedroom of th
Hotel de Vile formerly occupied by MadI
Haussmann. The day after his escape frol
La Muette he received three rifle shots while
a barricade in the Rue dOrnano. He was tran
ferred from there to the Hotel de Vile, wheI
he died Of his wounds. Delescluze was klle
on Tuesday at the barricade OF the Chatea
d'Eau. His face was much dishgured by POI
tion of a burning wall which had fallen on
His identity is amply proved by papers four
In his pocket.
Condition of the Streets after the Fightin
Extent OF the Destruction.
Paris MAY 2s) Correspondence Of the London Times.
The aspect of the Boulevards is the strange
sight imaginable. 1 followed them from Il
Porte ST. Martin TO the Rue de la Paix. StreN
over the streets were branches of trees, al
fragments of masonry that had been knOcki