The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-27
FROM EUROPE.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
E9cIasiuely TO The EUeetTlg Telegraph.
More Fires In Parts.

More Fires In Parts.
VERSAILLES, May 2e-Evening.-New fires are
bursting out in Paris. The insurgents put boxes
of petroleum everywhere. 1t is reported that
the Tuileries was fired by Bergerets own hands.
The building, they say, was stepped in petroleum.
The Church of st. Germain rAuxernois and the
Hotel de Vile were burned down, and the
Palais de Justice has been destroyed. A num-
ber of prisoners among them hundred women
of the demi-monde, taken fighting for the Com
mune have arrived here.
Flood Runs In the Gutters,
The walls of the Tuieries have fallen. The
Rue Rivoli is burning, and the only means of
stopping the fire is by pals of water passed
from hand to hand. The dead bodies of the
Nationals are seen everywhere, and any hidden
National when found is brought out and shot
i'm mediately.
Few Communists are still Holding Out
and shelling the city, doing the utmost mischief
possible. The slaughter of Nationals was fright
full. The Versaillists since Tuesday are
Killing All their Prisoners.
The houses in the Rue Royale were wet with
petroleum, and the Nationals fired them and
the people are furious in consequence. 1t is
clear that the
Insurgents Intend TO Destroy the Whole
Even women were discovered throwing petro-
leum upon houses and six members of the Ma
tional Guards, who were dressed as pompiers,
and who threw petroleum on the fires instead
of water, were shot in The Place Royale. There
is no limit to the readiness that exists to
XIII the Members of the Commune,
and leaders of the Guards taken were shot right
off.
Gas Explosions.
The gas works at Auberville have exploded
apd MANY othar eynIOsOns have Ooourred Tho
firing continues.
The Great COnfiagrations.
LONDON, May 27.-A despatch from st. Denis
of Friday night says there are still terrible con-
fagrations in Paris, the flames of which arise to
| q great height and illuminate the country for
miles around. All human aid seems valueless,
and the only chance of saving much more valua-
BILE property from destruction rests in the hope
that the night will remain calm.
The London Fire Brigade
| is expected, but has not yet arrived in Paris.
The Prussians
7 have fired upon and driven back to Paris the
insurgents flying toward Aubervilliers.
| despatch from Versailles on Friday night
| says
Gen. vinoy Captured the Place de Belle
Vile,
defended by ten thousand Federalists The
fighting was severe and the casualties very
| heavy. The Versaillists carried the Point de la
| Gail, which crosses the Seine at Bercy. A por-
| tion of Les Buttes-C -Chaumont has also been car
| ried by the Versaillist troops, who are now ad-
vancng into Belleville, from whence
Petroleum Bombs
are still thrown all over Paris.
General Lefo has informed the Assembly that
the insurgents still hold Charonne, a district of
Les Buttes- Chaumont, La Chapelle, La Villette,
Menilmontsnt, and Belleville. The General
also informed the Assembly that the insurrec-
tion would end on Saturday.
1t is known that
Some of the Hostages
held by the insurgents have been shot. The
troops continue to arrest numbers of women
carrying bottles of petroleum. The insurgents
will probably be surrounded tonight in Belle
Vile and Northumberland. and the remainder of
the city occupied by the Versaillists.
Theatres Burned.
The Theatres Lyrique, Chatelet and Porte 81.
Martin have been burned. Cannon and twenty
two red flags have been captured at Belleville
The court-martial for the
Trial of the Insurgents
will begin its sittings on Monday. There is a
rumor that Generals
DelescIuze and Pyat have been Shot.
The insurgents imprisoned in the docks have
attempted rising, and several were shot before
order was restored.
despatch from st. Denis on Friday night
says the foreign fremen have entered Paris.
The con1agration is decreasing. The work
shops of the Versailles Railway were burned.
The insurgents have been disodged from Cha
rome and are surrounded in Belleyille and
Menilmontant.
despatch from Pantin, dated at noon to-day,
says that the fighting east and north is less
| violent.
A Versailles Battery
in the Rue de Flandres, at LaVillette, bombards
the insurgent works in Les Buttes-Chaumont
The insurgents fire recklessly upon the city
The Prussians imprison all the escaping insar
gents.
; CarIlst Movement I'm Spain.
J LONDON, May 27.-A despatch to the DailI
Netos says Carlist movement is imminent II
! Spain. Don Carlos is at Bayonne. There is I
] great agitation in Andalusia and Catalonia.