Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-29
GREAT FIRE IN THE WEST
PITTSTON COAL MINES.
Ten Men Burned to Death.
PARIS.

Paris. May %. The wind has changed
and the fires are slackening. The heavens
are still illuminated by the flames and the air
is full of the debris for great distance.
Mazas Prison is reduced to cinders. Fea-s
are still entertained for the safety of Arch
bishop Darbon.
The insurgents attempting flight in the d.
rectien of Aubervillies and Romanville have
been repelled. The cannonading against
Belleville and Chaumont continues.
The Liberte says that foreign powers have
pronounced the eXtradition Of the members
of the commune in the event of their escape
from France. Courbet prominent com
munist, has been shot by the Versaillists.
The cannonade against the insurgent posi-
ton at Bclleville has been vigorously re-
sumed. Terrible fires are still raging inside
OF Paris. The northern railway has been
repaired, but entrance to the city is still re-
fused. The German position at Aubervilles
and elsewhere has been strengthened to pre-
vent the escaye of insurgents. The Ger
mans permit only the women and children
inhabiting the burning quarter of Paris to
leave the city.
LONDON.
London, May &c, The Rue Royal has
been destroyed by mines. The insurgents
have been driven into the cemetery OF Pere
La Chaise, where they are surrounded and
must be captured. There is rumor that the
hostages in Mazas Prison have been shot.
A despatch says that the Germans who
have been searching for the Archbishop of
Paris and priests held as hostages by the
Commune, state that they cannot be found,
and it is supposed that they have been shot
1t is calculated that there are upwards of
10000 dead bodies in the houses and cellars
of Paris. Many of them are those of women
and children. The women have been per-
fectly furious during the recent fighting in
the French capital. Executions of the in
surgents are constant. The destruction of
property is terrible. One fourth of Paris is
estimated to have been destroye
FLORENCE.
Florence, May &c. Speakers in the Italian
Parliament Tuesday, rendered their sympathy
to France in her sufferings.
BRUSSELS.
Brussels, May %. Victor Huge has writ
ten a letter to the Independence Beige, which
while it disapproves of the instruction, it
protests against the statement that the Belgi-
an government would extradte all insur-
gents found upon its territory. The indie
pendence Beige in its comments upon the
letter. does not agree with the sentiments of
Hugo.
VERSAILLES.
Versailles May 27. Favre in a despatch
to the representatives of France in foreign
countries, says that the acts of the insurgents
are of a criminal and not political nature.
He therefore desires them to request the
nelghborlng nations to eXtradite those who
may enter their territory, and says that the
government of Spain already proposes to do
so.
Picard to-day informed the Assembly that
Generals Clnchaut and Ledmirault have ad-
vanced to the foot of the Heights of Les
Butles Claumont, and that they will to-mor-
row with G0,000 men, occupy this last refuge
of this monstrous instruction. Picard also
stated to the Assembly that no news had
reached the government concerning the fires
in Paris, or of the fate of hostages held by
the insurgents.