The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-19
TIM FTaHT AZ NlUILLY.


GhastIy Spectacle After the Battle
Women Among the Dead anc
Wounded-Some Of Them Ferisl
Sword In hand.
The Paris correspondent Of the
London TGmesr writing on the 10th,
says:
NeWilly is, without metSphor, q
city Of the dead. As fsr as the prin-
cipal avenue is concerned, there is
nothing remarkable to be sen.
Brown-red spots upon the pavement
mark the passage of death, while
holes plowed in the ground, and
trees torn up, show that the struggle
was desperate. The side streets
! present q heart-rending spectacle,
and give us a foretaste Of what We
are to expect should the Versailles
army force an entrance into Paris.
Plies Of bodies, Versaillists and fed
erals, Uttered the doorsteps and laid
IN maps upon the staircases, while
long, thin lines Of blood marked the
progress Of some victims, wounded
unto death, who had eraWled into a
cupboard or beneath the shadow ofa
fireplace and lay there still, with
calm, white faces fixed in CHASTITY re-
life in the light that penetrated
down the chimney. In some instan-
ees there had evidently been a severe
contest, hand to hand. Men lay in
tWos and threes, one upon another,
and l felt like a ghost in some Ice
landic tale of horror, the only living
creature among so many dead.
The distant fusilade and crash Of
shells served but to increase the
stiffness and impress me with the
general hush. I was astonished to
remark that several woman had
fallen, in one instance pierced BY
many balls. All ofthem were in the
"cantiniere" uniform, some with a
gaily painted little flask tied round
the waist, others with pistols undis-
charged still in theirbelts. There
was one lying alone within q court
yard, handsome young woman with
black hair braided about her temples,
a smile upon her lips, and the frag-
ment of a sabre in her hand. She
belonged to the Sixty-eight Rattslion
and had been struck down by the
explosion of a she'll Further on,
half buried under a heavy door
which had fallen from its hinges,
were two men, one sailor and the
other a soldier of tie line, killed by
fragments of the same projectile,
half across the door and over the
courtyard stones were trails Of some
long creeper, just busting into leaf.
Many houses are unroofed and open
to the sky, while shattered blocks Of
stone and heaps of brick and slate
render some Of the narrow lanes al
most impassable. l find upon in
quiry that a very large proportion
Of the victims of the last few days
are women, counting to gather those
who have been killed by accident
and those who have perished sword
in hand.
One lady, indeed, bids fair to
rival Theorigne de Mericourt-
''Citoyenne Eudos," as she is called,
wife of the General of the same
name, who now commands at Issy,
and who is 8 member Of the Com
mune. It is said that she has been
under fire several times, and has
picked off her men with soldierly
sang .ITOid. I wandered from street
to street, and about the charming
villas that nestle among trees along
the Newilly road, and a melancholy
sight they are. Everywhere choice
shrubs lying prone upon the ground,
and fragments Of china vases, and
splinters Of green shutters, statues
without heads, fountain tazzas over
turned, balconies torn down, and
Verandahs bent and broken. In
those cases where doors remain in
tact, the windows are shattered, and
rooms and garden walks are streWn
with broken glass. Fortunately al
most all furniture has been removed,
and even in such houses as still
boast Of curtains and household
stuff, but little appears to have been
taken by the plunderer.