The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25
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Vice. President COlfax Recovering
Verdict in the Foster Trial.
Murder in the First Degree.
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Destruction of the Luxembourg Palace.
LONDON, MAY 25.-The latest dispatches from
Paris say the palace of the Luxembourg has been
partially blown up, and the Palais Royale is
still burning.
Only a Third of the Louvre Has Been
Saved.
Fighting continues at the Hotel de Vile and
at the terminus of the Northern Railroad. Mar
shall MacMahon, with his staff, has removed to
the Place Vendome.
Heavy Rain
is falling.
VERSAILLES, May 24-Night. Vinoy
telegraphs that he has possession of the Hotel
de Vile. Belleville and the Temple quarter
resist vigorously.
It is reported that Delescluze has been ar
rested.
Six Great Fires are Visible.
PARIS, May 24-Night.-The Place Vendome
was definitely occupied at o'clock this morn
ing. The insurgents made a strong stand in
the Rue st. Honore.
The PaIais ROyale
was set on fire by the retiring insurgents. The
capture of the Place Vendome made
The Tuileries Untenab1e,
and the insurgents saturated it with petroleum
and set it on fire. The insurgents are still
Fighting Like Fiends.
The Eastern faubourg population seem mad
with ioy and the tri-color waves everywhere.
The streets are quiet, and the Versailles troops
| are orderly.
The Hunt for Commune Leaders
has begun, and the police are searching houses
| and cellars.
Paris is Enve1oped I'm a Dense Pail of
| and is terribly damaged. The streetsare smeared
| with blood and Uttered with debris.
PARIS, May 24-Morning.-Last night, from
the American Legation, at about IL o'clock, 1
watched the burning OF the Hotel de Vile. At
| 2 o'clock it appeared to be o mass of livid
flames.
| The Austrian Embassy
and the property of the Empress Eugenie were
also burned. Thei"Caisse des Consignation," !" is
reported destroyed. Likewise
The Spanish Embassy.
Departure from Paris is.impossible, and circula-
ton through the city is difficult and dangerous.
A large number of cannon are pointed down
| the Rue Lafayette.
The Troops are Taking Barricades,
and act splendidly, Notwithstanding the insur-
gent fusillade from the houses. The Place de la
Concorde has been carried. There has been
heavy fighting near Mont Parnasse.
The Loss Of the VersailIists
troops has been small. Twelve hundred prison
ers were taken to Versailles. The Versaillists
are sending firemen to the city from the towns
within radius of twenty miles.
Thiers Announces
that all the Nationals will be disarmed immedi-
ately. letter from Paris says the Versaillists
are masters and
The City is I'm Ashes.
BoULoGNE, May 24-Midnight.-lt is ru-
mored that the Communist prisoners are coming
to the same prison that Louis Napoleon occu-
pied.
Terrible Fighting.
PARIS, May "a Special to New York Tri-
bune "Wednesday fighting to-day on the
Boulevard Haussmann and in the Fanbourg St.
Honore was very severe, and many houses are
filed with dead and wounded of both sides.
| The Ministry of Finance is Burning
iercely, and the Tuileries and north side of the
Louvre are completely gutted.
Four Walls Only of PaIais Royal are
| Standing.
The fighting was very severe around the
Hotel de VtIIe,
which was blazing with petroleum.
The British Embassy Building
was much damaged, and the Audit Office Of
Archives was burned. The Place de la Con.
corde was terribly injured.
No Quarter is Given.
The Versaillists behave well to the inhabi.
tants.
Fires are Raging In Nearly Every Street
The Northern Railway is in the hands of the
VeTsaillists. There is heavy bombardment o.
Paris from a barrcade on the Rue Lafayette.
The Hotel de VILE Occupied by the Ver-
saillists.
LONDON, May 25-A despatch to the DGils
Ne1s says General Vinoy telegraphs to Yer
sailes that the Hotel de Vile is occupied by hi
troops.
DeIeseluze has been Arrested.
: The insurgents in the Rue st. Antoine and on
! the Boulevard Montrouge, and also at Beleyille
though lighting without leaders, still resist tn
advance of the Versaillists.