The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-26
The Louvre q Heap of Ashes.

PARIS, May 24.-The palace of th'
Luxembourg has been fired by tht
Communists and is now in flames
Smoke envelopes the whole city. The
Museum in the Louvre is the only pub
lice building saved from the flames by
the utmost exertions on the part of the
Versaillists. The remainder of the
Louvre is heap of ashes. The fight
ing is now confined solely to the Belle,
vile quarter.
Hotel de VILE Captured.
! PARIS, May 25.-The Versaillists
have captured the Hotel de Vile and
stormed the barricades in the vicinity,
taking many prisoners. The insur,
gents guns mounted on the barricades
have also been captured. The Govern
ment troops are pressing the insurgents
at every point. Fighting and firing
still goes on with fearful loss to the
Communists. 1t is probable that the
fighting will cease tonight, for the
Commune is virtually dead and incapa-
bic OF protracting the struggle.
Details OF the Destruction Of Paris
The Insurgents Still Fighting
Communists being Arrested In
Houses and Cellars.
New YORK, May 25.-A special dis
patch gives the details of the fearful
scenes enacted in Paris yesterday The
Iribnes correspondent says: The
fighting in the Boulevards, Haussmann
and Faubourg St. Honore was very
severe Many houses are filled with
the dead and wounded of both sides
The Hotel of the Ministry of Finance
is burning fiercely.
The Tuilleries and the north side of
the Louvre is completely gutted Four
walls only of the Palace Royal are
standing.
The fighting was very severe around
the Hotel de Vile, which is blazing
with petroleum.
The British Embassy building is
much damaged, and the audit Office Of
the archives is burnt. The Place de la
Concorde is terribly injured. No quar-
ter is given. The Versaillists behave
well to the inhabitants. The fire is
raging in nearly every street. The
Northern railway station is in the
hands of the Versaillists,
There is heavy bombardment on
Paris from the barricade on the top Of
the Rue Fayette.
The TriJ,meS special correspondent at
Versailles on Wednesday night says:
General Vinoy has telegraphed that he
is in possession of the Hotel de Vile.
Beilevlle and Temple Quarter resist
ed vigorously.
Six great fires are now visible.
The Trijunes special correspondent
in Paris, on Wednesday night says;
The Place Vendome was definitely oc-
cupied at four o'clock this morning.
The insurgents made a strong stand
at the Rue st. Honore
The Palace Royal was set on fire by
the retreating insurgents. The capture
of the Place Nendome made the Tuil-
leries untenable, and the insurgents
saturated it with petroleum and set 1t
on fire.
The insurgents are still fighting like
fends
The eastern Faubourg population
seem mad with joy and tri-color waves
everywhere, The streets are quiet and
the Versailles troops are orderly.
The hunt for the Commune leaders
has begun, land the police are searching
houses, rooms and cellars.
Paris is enveloped in a dense pail Of
smoke and is terribly damaged. The
streets are smeared with blood and are
Uttered with debris.
The COnhagration Extending.
A correspondent telegraphed from
Versailles last night that Paris is being
burnt to the ground. The mad and
frenzied insurgents deliberately fired the
the Louvre, the Tuilleries, Cour des
Complies, the Hotel de Vile, the Min
istry of Finance, the Churches, and
every public building in the city.
The confiagration is rapidly extend
ing. The correspondent tried to enter
Paris, but found it impossible In
watching the fire he noticed tremen-
dous increase, and more than a third OF
the city, he says, will be burned before
night.
A letter from Paris says the Yer
sallists are masters, and the city is in
ashes.
BouLoGNE, May "A, Midnight.-lt is
rumored that the Communist prisoners
are coming to the same prison that
Louis Napoleon occupied.
CircuIar from Thiers-Twelve Thou
sand PrisOners-The Louvre Is
Saved.
VERSAILLES, May 25.-Thiers has to-
day issued circular OF information to
the provinces as follows: We are
masters of Paris, except small portion
which will be occupied to-day.
The Louvre has been saved. The
Hotel of the Minister of Finance has
been partially burned, and the Tuiller-
les, and the Palais Du Quai D'Orsay, in
which the Council of State holds Its
sessions, are wholly destroyed. ,
We have already twelve thousand
prisoners, and shall have twenty thou
sand. The soil of Paris is strewn with
the insurgent corpse. Our loss is small.
The army has behaved admirably;