The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-06-22
TIRE FALL OF THE COMlITNR.
The Horrors or the Last BayS


I Letters from Paris to-day give adj
ditiOnal details of the collapse of the
commune. One letter says over fou,
hundred thousand insurgents have
been killed, wounded, or taken prisO.
ners during the seven days' struggle,
and probably more than 100, 900 will
be prisoners in the end on both sides.
l estimate the losses as follows: Kill
ed, 2jO, 1000; wounded, 10000: burning
of property in Paris, 1000, ,OO0, 900 fs
loss of rents, injury outside, 200. .OO0. :
/ 900 francs loss of rents, injury 10 bus
I iness and depreciation Of credit, 310.-
10000 francs. France has never seen
such a week as the last one here
There has been every form of torture,
I every eXaggeratiOn of cruelty; age,
! sex, sickness or natural defOTmity has
kept none from the ruthless brutality
Of mad pOpulaee and the cool saw
/ agery Of undisciplined sOldiery. The
| commune, the first to break last Sun
I day night, has been narrowing its cir
conference every day, and at the same
time the chances Of escape of the host
ages remaining in its hands, and
whom, too, it murdered and put TO
death. It's encrOachments have ceas-
ed, and its end has been swift and
summary; but / would not write one
single line to defend the hOrrid butch
cries praetieed by the government
troops. No man who is q man can
stand by and see a woman shot and
children from ten to fifteen put to
death. Even allowing that the Lead
ers have been guilty of terribly revolt
ing crimes, rs they have been, it form
ed no excuse for the terrible excesses
of soldiers. At Luxembourg, in park
Moroccan, and in the town of St. ia
ques, there are large trenches filled
to the brink with human bodies, many
OF them only half killed and vet warm
with life. Insurgents, men and wO-
men, with hands tied behind their
backs, are taken to the brink. There
IS vOlley of musketry, the smoke
clears away and the victims are en-
quilted in the trenches. No mercy has
so far been shown to women. Wher-
ever they have been caught they have
been treated with all the cruelty imag-
Unable, especially during the first three
days.
Fourteen sewing girls, employed in
NAAC N1L1bAAolAAAAClAI VI AldudLLA lNDZGLs
were sutfOcated in the cellar where
they sought refuge from shot and
shell. When the house was set on
fire they perished. On the Rue Royal
was a house where poor women are
cared for during childbirth. The in
surgents set it on fire, and % of these
poor creatures perished in the flames.
The little garden of the Tour st. Ja-
ques, on the boulevard SebastapoOl,
was a mass of dead bodies awaiting
burial. The Omnibuses of LOdeOn
and BattignOle We're employed in re-
moving them. The barricades in the
were in a dreadful state from
dead bodies half covered lying there
in. This little green square, so filled
with trees, flowers and shrubs a few
days since, is now turned into burial
ground. Over one thousand are buri-
ed there. Large trenches are dug, and
twenty bodies thrown into each /
trench. Near Mr. Washburne's house !
six children, between theages of eight |
and ten years, taking in the act of set !
ting fire to houses, were shot on the |
spot, rot by the mob, but by officers
of high rank.
Another letter says some curious |
facts are coming to light. There is |
much evidence going to show that |
Bismarck COOlly contemplated the /
end desired to bring about the exter-
minatiOn of every red republican |
throughout Europe who could be in
1uced to go to Paris. Let them alone I
long enough, said he, and every revO-
lutiOnist in Europe will make his rem |
devious in Paris, then when the trap |
is perfectly full we will shut the door I
and bag the whole of them. The I
plan was a shrewd one, and it has |
worked well. The Germans kept the |
door open at ST. Denis to the very
last moment, any one who wished to |
enter Paris could do so up to the Sun |
day morning before the Versailles
troops made their entry. Then the |
door was Shut to with bang. no one :
was allowed to come out, the Germans !
moved up closer, and drove back or
killed every one who attempted to es-
cape, and now, doubtless through his |
Belgium, Switzerland, Spain .
and Italy are ready to seize and to |
send back to death, any fugitive who |
may have escaped by balloon or 9TH
erwise. The trap was full of foreign /
'evOlutiOnists, that is certain. The /
Figaro to-day publishes n list of the
names Of the military and police lead
eTs of the commune, and of this list
are foreigners. There were
Of these twenty-One Poles, eight Ital-
ans, seven Germans, and two or three
zach of Belgians, Wallachians, Hun
yarians, Portuguese, Spaniards and
IOidiSdat Americans.
Another writer says it was Rapias
Piquet who set fire to the library of /
he Louvre, to the Palais Royal, &c
He was going to incite his cOmpan-
Ons to destroy the shops of Louvre,
when he was seized by some of the
troops and shot in sight of his daugh-
Ter, who was accompanying him. His
asst and only regret, he bawled out, was
that he had not time to finish his en-
Ierpyise.
Another letter describes the manner
lf conducting executions. The pris-
1ners are taken down in patches to
certain specified execution places,
where firing parties are stationed, and
ieep trenches dug, beforehand. One
Of these is the EcOle Militaire, anoth-
er the Caserne Napoleon, Immediate
" behind the Hotel de Vile. One of /
the men engaged in this work has
given me some particulars. He tells
me that at the Caserne Napoleon, !
since last night, five hundred persons
have be6-s shot, and that the court /
yard is full of blood and dead bodies. !
To induce the prisoners to march /
resistance, they are told that /
they are to be taken to Versailles for |
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at the place of execution that the |
blood and bodies before them make 4
known To them that their last hour /
has arrived. There are invariably /
women and children among them, I
and they scream, and cry, and beg for
mercy, but are pushed forward and
shot down. 1t is said that ten thOus-
and persons have thus been executed, /
but / trust that this is a gross exag-
geratiOn.- Correspondence Cincinnati
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