The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-23
uow THEY ENTERED.
Communications Suspended.
nombrOwski Captured and
Recaptured.
.,OTHER EXPLOSION.
uaIf the Versailles Army In Paris
RuinOus scenes Presented.

VERSAILLES, May 22.-The Versailles
ro,ps have carried the insurgents
,ork- at the Anteuil Viaduct and also
,I(irrnele. Shortly before midnight
r,ey entered and occupied both villages.
Itr Communists are concentrating for
,,..lance on the north side OF the
Seine and the south side has been gen.
rrsy abandoned being too much ex-
ro-ei 10 the fire OF the Versailles artil-
j,ry Generals Donan, LAdmirault
and Clinchaul command the Govern
mrnr forces inside OF Paris
LATER.
VERSAILLES, May 22d.-Half the
-oyegnment army is now within Paris,
rhry have proceeded as far as the
Arc de Triomphe. Firing is in prog
res on the Champs Elysees. Fresh
troops are entering every moment. The
resistance opposed by the Insurgents is
'eeble and easily overcome. The ruin
ols scenes presented within the CITY,
give powerful evidence of the terrible
:esult of the late bombardment. The
.treets in many places are impossible by
reason of the ruins and debris caused
by the Versaillists shells The ram
parts have been almost destroyed by the
insurgents, and the guns are being
mrned against them by the Versaillists.
Paris Entered.
P,ElS, Nav 22-The Versailles army
Las occupied Paris.
rhe headquarters Of Marshal Nc
Mshon are now established at the new
Opera House. The headquarters Of
General Cessera whose forces entered
the city from the south are in the Ecole
Miltaire which fronts on the Champs
D. Mars.
Great Explosion.
there was a great explosion this after
noon near the Esplanade Des Invalides.
How the Versailles Troops Entered
Paris.
Nkw YORK, May 22.-A special cor.
respondent at Versailles last night tele-
graped the full particulars Of the man.
ner in which the Government forces
entered Paris. Caynin Freogo. Of the
Dayy. went from the trenches to the
rsmparts at Pont de Jour, and finding
hat the insurgents had retired he called
three hundred sailors and took posses
son OF the gate. Other troops follow
Il and before any one was aware the
entry had commenced. Not rifle was
fired nor man wounded, the whole
thing being SO unexpected. A white
aag was hung out at Anteuil.
Another brigade Of Versaillists has
entered Porte Montrouge, and troops
are pouring down on both points. 1t
y reported that the Arc de Triomphe
las been reached. and that the insur-
gents made but slight resistance. The
guns OF the ramparts have been turned
On the Communists. Twenty thousand
men are under Issy, and forty thousand
are moving on the open gates. A
special correspondent photographed from
Paris at seven o'clock last evening, that
'hs afternoon three squadrons OF cavalry
we're reviewed amid tremendous excite
nent Generals Henri and Fortune
presented them with stand Of colors,
when they shouted I'VE will defend
them till death"
Soon after Fort Vanvres was evacu-
sied, iu order to shelter in Montrouge.
Extraordinary rumors are afloat. 1t
Is reported that the Versaillists have
teen repulsed.
Mounted orderlies have just arrived
81 The war Office with news. Col. Lis
ooune, commanding the Franc-tireurs,
started Immediately to attack the Yer
'slIlsts in flank.
uen. Cluseret is now being tried.
All Communication with Paris sus-
pended-DOmbrowski Taken Pris-
oner and Recaptured.
LONDON, May 22.-All communica-
lion with Paris is suspended, the North
s'n Railroad having been cut by the
russians. The bombardment OF the
'ortlhcation OF Paris still held by the
tederalists continues.
The Times dispatches from Versailles
,ay Paris is completely isolated by the
rrussians, and no one has arrived from
There since midnight.
halfof the Versailles army is within
t6e walls and hold the gates, Saint
cloud, Passy, Auteuil, Trocadoro, Nut
e'a well as the Arch of Triumph.
r., Heavy firing is heard in the Champs
Elysees.
Sixteen thousand Versailles troops
entered Vanguard and Montrouge.
VERSAILLES, May 22.-Eighty thou
sand Versailles troops have entered
Paris.
Sharp csnnonading is heard, doubt.
less against the barricade near the Arc
de Triumph.
VRRaAILLRs, May 22.-Dombrowskl
was reported taken prisoner BY the