Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-26
The Luxembourg, Paisis Royal,
Louvre aHd the TuiIIeriss 10
Ashes he Streets Run
rlgg vii Humas
Blood.
BFitish austrian sEd Spanish En-
bas'y Buildings in Rgins---
Fearful Scenes.
The Most Terrible and H0rFifying
SCsBes and Sights Ever Wit
messed In III City Of
Modern RbOmina-
t.oas.

NEW YORK. May PA Tribune
| special gives the details of some fear
/ fuI scenes enacted in Paris yesterday.
The ITibGg1s'S correspondent says the
/ fighting in the Boulevard Haussn1an
and FaUbOurg st. HOnOre was very
1 severe. Many houses are filed with
/ the dead and wounded of both sides,
The fighting was very severe around
/ the Hotel de Vile, which is blazing
| with petroleum. The British En-,
/ bassy building is much damaged. The
! Office Of the Archives is burned. The
! Place de Ia COncOrde is seriously in
/ jured. No quarter is given. The
! Versaillists behave well toward the in.
| habitants. Fire is raging in nearly
| every street. There is a heavy bonn.
bardment going on in Paris from the
/ barricades ia the Rue Fayette.
/ A special correspondent writing
! from Versailles, on Wednesday night,
says that General VinOy telegraphs
! that he has possession of the Hotel de
! Vile. Belleville and the Temple
! quarter resist vigorously.
It is reported that Delscluse has
! been arrested.
Six great fires are visible.
A Paris special Of Wednesday night,
states the capture Of the Place Ven
dome was made. The Tuilleries is
untenable, and the insurgents have
| saturated it with petroleum and set it
on FIRE. The insurgents are still fight
/ ing ike fiends. The Eastern Eau
bOurg population seem mad with
| Joy and the tricOIor waves everywhere.
The streets are quiet. Versailles troops
are orderly. A hunt for the Com
mUue leaders has begun, and the police
are searching the houses, rooms and
/ cellars. Paris is involved in a dense
pail of smoke, and is terribly dam
aged. The streets are smeared with
blood and Uttered with debris. The
Austrian Embassy's property, and
/ the Empress Eugenie's also, were
burned. Case des CassignatiOn is re-
ported destroyed, likewise the Spanish
EmbassadOr's residence. Departure
from Paris is impossible, and circu-
IatiOu through the city Is difficult and
dangerous. 1t is reported VillOnOy
was shot Immediately after he was
taken. The Nersaillists are sending
fremen to the city from the towns,
within a radius of twenty miles.
A correspondent telegraphed from
Versailles last night that Paris is
being burned to the ground. The
mad and frenZied insurgents deliber-
stely fired palaces, churches aud all
the public buildings in the city. The
c0nhagratiOn i5 rapidly extending.
The correspondent found it impOssi-
bic to enter Paris. In watching the
fire he noticed tremendous increase,
and a third Of the city, be says, will
be burned before night.
Another correspondent telegraphs
that the insurgents were beaten every
where except at BellevilIe, MOntrouge
and Antoine. The chiefs are skedad-
ding. DelaclUse is a prisoner. Dom
brOWski is a prisoner Of the Prussians.
Thiers announces that all the Ma
tiOnsls will be disarmed Immediately.
A letter from Paris says the Yer
saillists are ''masteTs Of the situation, !"
and that the city is in ashes.
BOULOGNE, midnight, May 25.-It
| is rUmOred that the Communist pris-
Oners are coming to the same prison
that Louis Napoleon occupied.
LONDON, May 26.-The latest dis
| patches from Paris say the Luxem-
| bOUrg has been partially blown up,
and that One-third of the Louvre has
been saved. Fighting continues at
/ the Hotel de Vile and the terminus
Of the Northern railway.
Mcmahon, with his staff, has re.
moved TO the Place VendOme.
A heavy rain is falling.
VERSAILLES, May 25.-Thiers to-
/ day issued a circular of information
/ to the provinces, as follows: We are
! masters Of Paris except a small por-
| ton Of it. The Louvre has been
saved. The Hotel of the Minister 0i
! Finance is partially burned, and the
! Tuilleries and Palais du Quai DOT.
seu, in which the Council Of State
| held it sessions, are wholly de-
/ strOyed. We have. already 1900
! prisoners and shall soon have 10000.
| The soil Of Paris is strewn with many
| cOFpses. Our loss is small. The ar
my behaved admirably. Justice will
soon be satisfied and France be happy
/ in the midst of her sad misfOEtUnes.
OUTSIDE PARIS, May 2j, AM
! There was furious cannOnading and
| firing Of musketry during the whole
Of last night.
The insurgent batteries in the Ar
rOndissement Des Butts ChaumOnt,
still hold out.
The confagratiOns are decreasing
Notwithstanding the absence Of the
engines, many Of which are arriving
from the provinces, and which have
accomplished but little.
It is said that negotiations are in
progress between the Governments OF
England and Germany, for the cessiOn
by the former to the latter of the
island Of HeligOland.
VERSAILLES, evening, May 25.--The
[ Govern ment troops have occupied
Forts Bicetre, RaOule and Rigault.
Two prominent Communist leaders
have been shot.
A cloud of smoke covers Paris. and
/ fresh cOnf8gratiOns are feared.
PARIS, afternoon, May 25.-Since
noon q strong sOuthWind has pre-
I vailed, which blows the flames toward
the Place de la Bastile, threatening
the entire city with destruction.
VERSAILLES, May %, night.-Arch-
bishop Darbay, ten hostages and near
| ly fifty priests were murdered in cold
/ blood at Massus prison, Tuesday night.
! Several leaders Of the Commune were
shot to-day after, being tried by 9
drum-head court martial.
ST. DENNIS, May 25.-Fightiug has
/ ceased, and the Vers8iIlists have com
! plete possession of the city. The con
| flagratiOns have nearly all been ex.
( tinguisbed. They were caused. in ali
/ cases, by shells from the Versaillisi
I guns, and not by the Communists. a
/ portion Of the Louvre was saved. with
] most Of the precious works Of art In
] the safe and vaults. Last night and to.
/ day the troops refused to give quarter
and killed all Of those who fell into
/ their hands.
Paris, May 25.-At 5 o'clock pm
/ the Vers8illists carried the Opera
/ House, The people rushed cut, clap
ping their hands, snd distributed fine
wines and money to the troops. The
/ women embraced them, amid shout:
of 6 VsUe Ia Ligaef" The soldier:
/ frafernized freely, but preserved ad
! mirable discipline all the while. The
Versaillists Tesfraid to rush upon the
! barrlcades. lest the mining, circum
venting and burrOWing insurgents
/ deal death and destruction over Paris
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