The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-06-24
DREADFUL scENEs--A FIGHT FOR LIEF
ATTEMPT TO BURN MEN ALIVE.


The Archbishop Of Paris and Judge
Boniean were shot in prison, and then
bodies carried to the Marie OF the Twentieth
ACCOMPLISHMENT. Sixteen others, with a
group of thirty-eight gendgrmes, we're tax
en- 10 Pere La Chase at night, under TIE
pretext Of being transferred to another
Place Of confinement, and were then shot.
-Four Others, whose names are unknown,
were shot on Saturday. The total thus
known comprises sjxty-four victims. On
Saturday the surviving prisoners were about
to be shot by the Commune, which had es
tablished its headquarters at ;he prison.
when, at the inStigatOn of one Of the old
staff, who had been retained in bis office by
the Commune, they rebelled, and withdrew
into one portion of the prison, where they
barricaded themselves, and where the in
surgents tried TO burn them alive. The
mattresses, however, being Of wool, Ire
served them, 90 that they were not much
burned A hundred soldiers Wao had re-
NAMED in the hands of the Commune
when the barracks OF Prince Eugene w-re
captured, formed among themselves a very
solid nucleus Of resistance, and at ) clock
on Saturday evening, the Commune, seized
with a positive panic, fled, carrying eff
with them the money chest, and directing
Their flight to the Marie Of the Twentieth
Advertisement.
The inside Of the Hotel de Vile pres
ents a curious scene, the solid masses Of
stone and lime Of which the rubbish j. com
posed having fallen in the form Of car
ter, which fills up the whole central place.
Under this mound are said to be buried
from two hundred to three hundred insur-
gents who were unable to escape at the last
nom ut, and thus fell the victims Of the
confiagration they had themselves original
ed. The mutilation Of the ornamental work
Of this magnificent specimen Of architecture
is simply hideous there is scarcely a
square inch of the facade untouched by
shot or shell, and the huge stone columns
inside, splinterel and detaced, support a
mere she'll.
TIE EXTENT or TIE SLAUGHTER.
We give the following Paris correspond
ence Of the London Times, Of May 2Sth :
The executions Of the insurgents are whole
sale. 1t is estimated that upward of 1000
persons have .cen shot already on the left
bank Of the Seine alone, evidently a small
proportion Of the total number. Wherever
women AMI children are 70 be observed
leaning over the parapet Of the Seine, in
tently regarding some object below, one
l. - I. l. q no
OF hideou>ly mutilated corp>es Of men who
have been brought down 70 the river side,
and then. with their backs TO the wall have
met their doom. On the sloping road,
leading down from the Quay to the river
may also be seen inequalities where the
road has been recently disturbed and where
the freshly-turncd earth indicates burial
places Not far from these bodi-z were
lying several dead horses, from which the
people were cutting steaks.
YOUNG WOMEN EUFNED IN TIE RUINS.
There Is, says a Paris correspondent Of
the London Times, Of May 9th, a yellow
CHASTITY look il the atmosphere, so charged
with the smoke Of burning houses and
public buildings that the sun shines feehIy
through Il. The Tuileries is a mere she'll.
The smoke from tie Ministry Of Finance
and the magnificent public buildings at the
corner Of the Rue Royal and the Rue de
Rlvoh Is still rising from the ruins, and in
the celebrated, bonnetmaker's, Madame
Drouart, No. 3 Rue Dc Rivoli, well known
to many Of your lady readers, number o.
young women employed there took refuge
IN the cellars, and are now stihed beneath a
pile Of rubbish twenty or thirty feet high
The Rue Royale, which | could only sef
portion Of, is Ike a Nineyltlsh mound o.
Turning back hy the Boue Yard Hauss
mann, | reached the grand Opera, a mas:
Of barbados, ana too full Of soldiers tO b
pleasant resort especially az petroleum
SHELLS we're falling on the Boulevard de:
ltahens. All those places which made Par:
the wonder and admiration Of modern time
are heaps Of smouldcring ruins-her fines
boulevard shattered her gardens laid waste
her cutters running with blood, and an aw
ful pail settling down heavily over Der dy
ing agonies as she completes, in compHanc,
with ''the memorable logic Of facts whcI
has formed her only religion, her own sui
eide.
WOMAN WHO HAD KILLED FOUR MEN I
CAPTURED AND SHOT.
A Paris May 2GJ correspondent of Ii
London Times says: You have hear
doubtless of the vivandieres Of the Natioua
battaions, who have marched brightly an
bravely to the combat with the corps, 0
with the men who claimed their Wild ant
more than half unwomanly devotion. On
woman Of this class, straight, tall SPLENDID
" set, with vigor in her face and beauty il
every limb-she could not have been NOR
than twenty Eve, and she was a woman
perfectly made saw suffer figbtiu
fate. Captured, know not how, she baC
killed with revolver, before her hand coulC
be stayed, a Versaillist officer and three 0
his men. She looked "out and out" Jury
her handsome face was black with powder
her lips especially made lvid by hasty biting
OF cartridges; her hair hung in disheveleC
tanges about her handsome but ferociou,
face and her eyes, cleaning with an over
strained courage that mounted even to mad
ness, blazed defiance On the red-breccbed
crowd who had her at their mercy. He,
hands were tied, and, with III ba.L
against a wall, she ded-pierced tbron(,L
and through with shots from the riaos >
NJ. Theirs troops. | could not bIom,
them-but | could not help feeling deenI,
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