The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-06-28
After The Battle Conquered Paris
Destruction Of the Palaces
Scene in tho Place de Ia Concorde.

Destruction Of the Palaces Sad
Scene in the Place de la Concorde.
The correspondent of the Lon.
don Times writing from Paris af.
ter the city was occupied by the
Versail!ists says: ~ s.'.-s..s.
III have been over a largo por~
tion of Paris to day, and / am hap
py to say that, though large fires
are still raging, the confagration
Is not spreading to the extent that
had been appreiiended. The des.
/ truction done by the street fight
ing and the desolatioh which pre-
walls in the principal boulevards
and other leading thoroughfarcs
exceed all / coald have imagined
from a distant view. 1 entered to.
day by tho Porte de la Muette, and
getting round to the left, approach.
ed the Arc de Triomphe from the
| Avenue de PInperatrice. All
along / found trees, lamp posts
and tie facades of houses smashed
by shells. Turning off by the Rue
dc Morny, I worked my way round
to the Boulevard Haussinann. 1t
was impossible to proceed along by
the pavement, as on either side at
intervals of a few feet felled trees
and thick branches had been laid
down by the insurgents to obstruct
the passage of the troops. On
Monday last the fedorals had occu-
pied the houses, and fired from the
corridors. All the fronts Of the
houses were disfigured by rife
balls, the corridors were broken
aud the handsome stone cornices
very much battered. The beauti
full columns Of the Madeline are
sadly injured, the huted edges hav.
ing been in many places shot away.
The houses in the Rue Royale, at
the corner of Rue Fraubourg St.
Honore, were blazing still, and the
smoke and ashes that few. from
them were sitting the pompiers
who were working energetically
there and at other points but
while l was in the city some of
their corps were shot. 1t had been
discovered that they, instead of
throwing water OH the fires they
were called upon to extinguish,
were actually pumriag petroleum
into the flames, and SO adding 10
their fury. When this was detect
ed the guilty iremen were sur.
rounded by a body OF cavalry, con-
Quoted into the Pare de Monceaux,
and there shot. / could count the
number of people l met along the
Boulevards, 80 lew were those who
ventured to walk about. The
fears of petroleum, and explosions
are universal. The inhabitants
had either stopped mp or were en-.
gagged in stopping up, every chink
through which petroleum might be
thrown into their houses. Their
cellar lights, their ventilators and
their gratings were being made
impcrvious by sand, mortar and
other materials. This prccaution
was taken because women and chill.
dren, partisans Of the commune,
have in numerous instances been
detected throwing petroleum into
houses. Not shop was entirely y
open, and those that opened only
doors were inferior restaurants
and wine houses. Around the rail
ing in the Place Vedome troopers
horses were tied. The bronze fig
nre of the Emperor was on its
back the shattered, and protrate
column lay about in fragments X y
y On coming round by the quay
to the Place dc Ia Copcorde !
found that all the statues of the
French cities are injured, and
some very considerably. OF sew.
eral the arms and heads are off -
The splendid fountains in the cen
tre of the Place. are dreadfully
smashed. The stone balustrade ID
badly broken in hundred places
The lamp. posts are all down, and
this once charming spot presents a
most melancholy appearance. ]
found q crowd looking over the
wall of the wharf beside the bridge.
! looked over and found a number
of laborers digging hinge square
grave in which to bury some TWEEN
ty i've insurgents, who lay man
gled and dead along the wall,
"The Hotel de Vile was still
smoking when | left at G o'clock
l So were tho ashes OF the Tuileries
Happily not very much of the
Louvre is destroyed, aud at the
Palai5 Royal the fire was extin
1guished when only a portion Of
that building had been consumed
The Prefecture Of Police is con
lsumed, but the Palais de Justice
is not, and the Sainte Chapelle has
suffered but little injury. The
greatest confagration Of to day