Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-06-09
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\ Paris dispatch of May 80 says: AL
ready there IL a strong feeling that the
Theirs Government is too weak TO last.
Awful massacres continue. At the barri-
cades in Rue Rochuart, in one ditch,
wounded people were found buried alive.
They groaned and shrieked dreadfully all
night. An epidemic is feared from the
number of dead bodies. Vidol was shot.
rs was also Freihard. The body of the
latter was claimed by his widow. Forty
thou sand francs were found in his cellar,
spoils of the Republic. Matthew, mem.
Der of the Commune, was arrested and
10000 francs were found upon him. He is
accused of selling the cause The Yer
saillists have placed back the statue of
Henri Qnartre which had been thrown
down in the Seine. Okolowski, found
wounded in an ambulance, was taken ont
and shot. Milliere was arrested at Lux
embourg. He resisted violently and fired
six shots from his revolver. lie was tax
en- TO the steps and a platoon OF soldiers
shot him. During the attack by the Yer
saillists upon the barbados in the Place
mixed up with the Communists, by whom
they were taken prisoners and fifty of them
shot. The bodies of the insurgents killed
last week lie in every direction, in various
ST ages Of decomposition. The smell is fear
full, and an epidemic is apprehended if i'm
me diate sanitary measures are not taken
for removing the cause of the stencil and
cleansing the city. Many of the dead have
been buried with such slight covering of
ear th that the first heavy rain will wash it
away. Some parts of the city are wholly
uuinhabita bic by reason of the stencil arls-
ing from these decaying charred heaps.
There is still a great number of unburied
corpses in Belleyillc. Some apprehension
is felt that the walls of the Tuileries and
Hotel de Vile will fall. The wholesale ex-
ecution of insurgents continues. All are
without exception. shot Immediately ON be-
ing captured. Rochefort has been con-
demned to death by the Versailles court
martial. He has been probably executed
already. Gen. Cluseret was shot Saturday,
in the barracks of Prince Eugene. 4 pris-
oner named Dutil having boosted that he
ordered the execution Of Gems. Thomas
and Lccumptc, was instantly killed. 4
girl seventeen years Of age was shot this
morning for firing at .oflicers. A number
Of persons were detected throwing petro-
leum in the cellars of the Faubourg Mont
IN attire, and also in firing upon the troops
in Rue Hayre. They were all arrested.
All the shops in the city are opening once
more and Paris begins to wear an animal
ed appearance. ON the 3lst, SO Commun-
lists, among whom were seven women,
were shot in a body by a company Of sol
diers in the plaza in front of the Hotel de
| Vile. Around three sides of the square
| tr oops to the number of 1900 were drawn
up, under Col. Guizot. At 8 o'clock the
| prisoners, who had been confined in the
coal cellars, back Of the porter's lodge In
the Hotel dc Vile, were brought out
| Their hands were tied behind their backs
and they were then marched out by th,
main gateway through n double file of sol
dlers, and having reached the centre of 9
wide area in front Of the Hotel de Vile
were ranged In row and made TO knee
| down close together. There was nothn,
on the whole plaza but three empty scav
enger carts, which stood in a line at thu
rear Of the prisoners When The compan,
was in line and ready to fire, Col. Guizo
stepped forward and told the prisoners il
a few words that they were TO suffer dealt
for having been caught in the act OF settini
fire to buildings and dwellings in Paris
At this moment the women uttered pierre
ing shrielSs and began to sway them 'eve
back and forth. An officer advanced AM
made them keep quiet with the flat Of hi
sword. A few moments afterwards a vol
ley was fired and when the smoke cleare'