New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-25
ysa.. XXXI.....No' 9,4O2,
THE REDS STILL RESISTING
THE prpIJC BUILDINGS SET oN ZINE 80
li'N D THE INSURGENTS.


THE INSURGENTS
-, rup LOUVRE AND TUHERlES
me nav uoNrMARTRE WAS REDUCED
INV rr,reRAPB To THE TRIBUNEl
,oSpoS, wednesday, May a. 1871.
..,ordent of The TRIBUNE at
w, IN a telegram dated last nigh'' says ine
$50. =. War has been taken by Gen. Ninoy' who
- his headquarters at the Hotel dos In
-. Cen Clinchamp carried the new opera
o'clock this evening. Gen. LAdmirauit IN
p,,,ovard Inkermann guards the stations of the
srasbourg and NOrthera Railways. The batteries of
a. Insurgents in the Tuileries Garden, bordering on
,,e Place de Ia Concorde are maintaining severe
fire.
The ipsurrection is almost confined to the quadri-
lateral between the Tuile1ies the Seine the Prefec-
tnrc of Police and the Hotel de Vile. Billoroy was
shot BY the Versalists, having offered resistance.
The officers of the Administration have been ordered
to be ready to move to Paris at an hours notice.
The Courbeyoie battery was largely instrumental in
reducing Montmartre. The National Guards finding
the shells bursting in the houses surrendered.
The Palaces of the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Le-
zion of Honor and the Council of State on fire.
The Versailles fire brigade has gone to Paris, and
Theirs has also gone to superintend the work of
saving the property. The confagration is so violent
that there are small hopes of saving the structures
Everything goes to show that the fire was caused by
petroleum. and it is feared that the Palais Royal,
Hotel de Ville and other state edifces prepared
by the Commune to be set ON fire.
Within the last few days 10000 prisoners have
marched through Versailles, including company
of Amazons Of the Seine battalion and another of
patriotic children. Mounted gensdarmes forced the
AmazOns, some of whom were handcufed, to walk
quickly, under broiling Their appear
ance caused much mirth; but their looks
were defiant The children seemed abashed, by
the prisoners were many old men. A savage feel
ing prevailed among the Yersaillists, and four
prisoners were shot because they sat down.
A dispatch dated to-day says Rochefort was
brought TO Versailles hand-cued tightly that his
wrists were hurt. He had 5000 francs and much
jewelry. He refused to answer questions when
interrogated by NJ. Picard. NJ. Theirs is afraid
TO pardon him, but demands that the Committee
shall exercise its prerogative of mercy.
A dispatch from Versailles this evening says
Gen vnoy telegraphs that he has possession of the
Hotel de Vile, but that Belleville and the Temple
Quarter resist vigorously. He reports that Deles-
clue has been arrested Six great fires in Paris
now visible.
A dispatch from Paris tonight states that the
Place Vend6me was definitely occupied at O'Clock
this morning The insurgents made strong stand
at Rue ST. Bonore and set fire to the Palais Royale
~ they retired. The capture of Place Vend0me
made the Tuleres untenable and the insurgents set
il on fire with petroleum The insurgents are still
fighting ike fends. In the Eastern Faubourg the
population seems mad with joy, the tr-color waves
everywhere. and the streets are quiet. The Yer
saillists are orderly and the hunt for the Commune
leaders has begun. The police are searching houses
rooms, and cellars.
Paris is enveloped with dense pail of smoke, and
the terriblydamaged streets are smeared with blood
and Uttered with debris.
The fighting in the Boulevard Haussman and
Rue st. HOnore continues very severe and many
houses are filed with the dead and wounded OF
both sides. The Ministry of Finance is burning
fiercely, and the Tuileries is on fire on the north
side The Louvre is completely gutted and
four walls only of the Palas Royale are standing
and the fighting is very severe around them. The
Hotel de Vile is blazing with petroleum. The
British Embassys building is much damaged, the
Auditors Office and archives being burned. The
Place de Ia Concorde is also terribly injured.
No quarter is given to the insurgents by the Yer
saists, though they behave well to the inhabitants
AS write fires raging in nearly every street
The Northern Railway Station is in the hands of the
Versaillids heavy bombardment is continued
from the baITicade at the top of Rue Lafayette.