The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-25
MANY Leaders Of the Com.
mune Shot.
EXPLOSIONS TAKING PLACE
4 Terrible ConAagration Raging.
The Tuilleries Destroyed.
LOUVRE THREATENED.
Dispatch from Washburne.
Of tho Fighting In Paris
on Monday.

os.crintion Of the Fighting In Paris
on Monday.
,oypoy, May 23.-The special cor
.,.roDlsnt of the Tribune at Paris, on
y5aiay telegraphs that yesterday af-
moon the insurgents were driven from
5,,sau de Ia Muette. They subse-
..ea,ly rallied and held the enciente
with considerable tenacity, but were fl
,,,v driven back with heavy loss by
81. heavy fire Of the Versaillists' bat
..,js. At nine o'clock Dombrowski,
Ter cover Of a couple of gnns, charg-
i the Cemetery des Pauvres. He was
ne, bv firm and withering fire, and
..r insurgents line became broken and
organized. However they again at.
.,mrtel 10 storm the cemetery, and
.,y-, was some hand-to-band fighting
70, the report that Dombrowski was
,Mel caused the insurgents to become
..nlc.striken. A pause of few hours
.:r,eeied when suddenly the batteries
q the hill opened on the Enciente rail
yir. and showers Of shell and hail OF
.l,setry poured on it. The insurgents
saved feeble reply. Suddenly heavy
~, on the northward was heard, and
m4i panic ensued. Arms. and equip
rar. we're thrown away and all bolt
-. the officers leading. They surged
%. Struggled and blasphemed up the
.sy in great confusion, shot and shell
.q,nc them. They, in the extremity
their panic, fought and blazed away
.f.criminately, and struck each other
a:l their clubbed rifles. AS the tide
the fugitives swept along, up with
ZEN the relieving battalions came. i'm
a-.n, fresh panic. The fire Of the
,--.ailists reached Trocadore avenue,
tween the Arc de Triomphe and
,ynl POINT, packed densely with fugi-
.ye-. The Communists showed them
i've. behind big barricade in the
Pace lie la COncorle, and did not fire.
Tie Ver.ailist battery below the Arch
.E-M the Champs Elysees. The Yer
u'.,>t, pressed on the Avenue Fried
sri to the open space at the top OF the
Sr.eyari Haussman. Thence they
JGd sweep the Boulevard Malesherbes
90 Nairlaine, and open the way TO tbs
Sie ROvale
fighting In Paris Ceased-MeMahOn
AMI Thiers to Enter-Nany Leaders
Of the Commune Captured and
Shot.
d~:ai> Special
n Dennis, Night, May 23.-The
..,.n. has ceased. Marshal McMahon
$. President Theirs will enter to-
~o;;ow The losses Of the insurgents
ave teen fearful. The troops gave no
ia:;er and many of the leaders Of the
a@mane were captured and shot.
The Communists Make stand at
hotelde Sille-FeliX Pyat Escapes
IN BallOOn-ExplOsiOn Taking
Place.
PARIS, Nav 24.-The Communist
- have made decided stand in the
-:atornooi OF the Hotel de Vile, and
s..- advance Of the Versaillsts has been
arcne1
Felix Pyat and other members OF the
"mune including NJ. Rance, Grous-
aat Ne.nier, have left the city,
'"og succeeded in efTecting their es-
',y IN balloon during the night.
he mines prepared by the Commu-
- are continually being fired. Ire
"eoions explosions have taken place
II 'ne Vicinity of the Hotel de Vile,
altering the adjacent buildings and
.ns immense damage to life and prop
rerribie ConfiagratiOn Raging
m mr Iuilleries Burntng-GOvern.
troops Continue to Advance
neralists Escaping.
'ARIs, May PA terrible confa-
,.A"'n Is raging in Paris. The palaces
NE lu!IIeries and Louvre are burn
: having been fired by petroleum.
magnificent buildings are in immi-
=, .j' Danger of being reduced to ashes,
~ i feared that the fire may be
,.i ,'.Iim,lolcated to other buildings in the
s:nnoFhood and cause a general con-
r,' ,ne srsallles troops continue to ad-
3.s and the insurgents to fall back,
.,,."Sg as they retreat. 1t is probable
'stei '' ''' VIII '
,n,at me Federalists are escaping in large
~, ,"'eF' by way OF Belleville and Pan
,aauuilleries Destroyed-Louvre
hi,,ea easned.Dispatch from Minis
j., ";&.HISG1oS, May 24.-The follow
n 4''patch was received at the State
FS''ment this afternoon: "The Tuil-
nc Is entirely consumed. The Louvre
i.,,r ,~'eaiened. The palaces of the Min
Of ~ ~ oi Finance, Etats, Major Legion
s.. AOnof T, and other buildings are on
=; Inc fighting continues"
kueo. WAsHBURNE,
At Versailles.