The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-06-17
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SATURDAY,. JUNE II, 1871.
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The Paris nsurrectsOn-HOrrib
Scenes In BelievllIe. '|"'
A Paris correspondent Of the London
Times, who entered Belleville Just after its
occupation by the Versailles troops, thus
describes the shocking scenes which met
his gaze there: -. - -
The wide thoroughfarc up to the PlRce
du Trone was occupied by soldiers of
the LINE, who washed their powder
stained hands in the running gutter,
or slept the sleep of exhaustion on
the bare stones. OF the recumbent
figures it was difficult for moment to
distinguish the living from the dead. at
the barricade, which stretches across the
end Of the Boulevard Voltaire, heap of
dead were lying, and further on along the
road there was group OF seven bodies,
one upon the other, some Of them quite old
men, who had evidently been shot down in
an attempt at precipitate retreat. A woman
was wailing over one of them, entreating
the passers-by to help in its removal,
for" she said. sit is my husband, Of
the i4th battalion. Yonder Is his shop,
over the way. II can only transport 1t
thither I will give him decent burial"
No one needed her, for soldiers occupied
the place, and they are so inlUriated against
the InSurgcnt National Guards that it is
dangerous to busy one'>self in their affairs.
At the corner OF the Place Voltaire rose an
other barricade, formed of bales of rags,
some Of which had burst through their,
covering, and had been used 10 conceal the
faces Of the. dead, and beyond this
ov,I hat
leads past La Roquette to the cemetery of
Pere la Chaise. At this point u horrible
sight presented itself. Upwards Of eighty
men lay piled upon each other, mass Of
arms and legs and distorted faces, while the
roads and gutter literally flowed with
blood. These men had been taken with
arms In their hands, and had been placed
against the wall and executed. Sentinels,
posted at intervals, kept back the crowd,
but |, as surgeon, was allowed to pass
and inside the walls of La Roquette / heard
q series of some hundred rifle shots, fol-
lowed by the tear of q mtrailleuse, and
was informed by an officer standing by that
Justice was doing her work. The large
furniture vans stood at the prison gate :;
one had already received its ghastly load,
the other was being rapidly filled.
No one who has been about Paris for the
last few days can be easily shocked at the
| sight Of corpses. 1t is too familiar. They
lie about the streets in the quarters where
hard lighting has gone on, almost at every
corner, sometimes in bideousIy contorted
Iatttudes, and with CHASTITY, gaping wounds,
only half hidden by the scrap of cloth, or
may be a bit of bouoh which some passer-
by has thrown over them. But yesterday
the heaps of dead lying about Belerille were
enough to shock the most calous. 1t is
lprobable that the number of executions
was due to the fact that long after the
street fighting was over the insurgents
kept on firing from the windows of the
houses, and killed great many Of the
TROOPS. The soldiers We're, in consequence,
Iso eXaSperated that one of the officers
begged myself and my friends not to remain
!near them, as lie could not be ansWerable
for their treatment of anybody whom they
found wandering about that locality, and
Iwho might not be able to give an account
of himself perfectly satisfactory to them.
| We were not very 10th to act upon
the advice, for we were the only two
lstrangers about, and we found ourselves
unpleasant!y placed between two fires.
IBellevllc being ready to tear us to pieces
as Versailles. and Versailles to shoot us az
rebel citizens of BelIevilIe. A more unin-
lyiting set Of people than scoWled at us as
we passed from window and doorway
have not often seen-thc women worse
than the meu. Most OF them had the
half-scared, half.savage look of a wild
beast cooped up in cage, who, when be
hears the crack Of the keepers whip,
scarcely knows whether to fight OF crouch
away. The still reeking corpses of their
neighbors and friends, and the volleys
which told that another execution was
going on, tanned most Of them. But some
had the courage still to breathe hire and
slaughter, and to declare that when night
came on fresh and more terrible yen-
geance would be Wrecked on the troops.
fear that, Notwithstanding the rigor-to use
no harSher word-with which the rebel
lion is being stamped out, it will be long
before Paris is safe from incendiarics
and as.assins prowlng about in the
| dark or poisoning in open day. One sight
in BeIleville was especially ghastiy and
horrible. A local cafe chantam mad been
turned into an ambulance, and as the
wounded died they had to be carried into
tue theatre attached to it and thrown upon
the ground, just in front OF the stage. Ii
was evident that nobody had before either
the time or the will to attend them, though
as we came men were beginning to cart
them of, taking them up on their shoulders
as butcher might carry dead pig, and
pitching them into the cart. Some were
already purifying and poisoning the
air. All this was going on amid the
scattered drinking tables and chairs,
the tawdry fnery, and dingy drapery
and paint-bedaubed walls OF cafe chan.
tant, with cosy little arbors close by, i'll
which the dead men had probably often Sat
drinking and laughing with their sweet
hearts and wives, applauding the gally,,
| dressed women on the stage in front, OF
them. 1t was horribly painful proof OF
the bitter feeling of the troops against the
people of Bellevllle that we were wa warned e
! not to remain in the ambulance. The sol
diers looked upon anybody who tended the
wounded men as sympathlzing with them,
and deserving the same fate. Indeed, we
| were told that in Beleville no wounded
man on the ground was allowed to live
That he was wounded was considered proof
| that be deserved death.
| A GRAND D1scovERY.-The block coal
recently discovered in Illinois, near Caron.
delet, although only thirty feet below the
surface of the ground, is the lowest vein OF
| the coal formation yet found in this vicinity