The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-26
All the Public Buildings in
the City Fired. e
Fires Raging in Every Street,
The city Covered with a Pail of Smoke
The Streets smeared with Blood.

LONDON, May 25-5:8O A. NJ.
The latest dispatches from Paris say the
Luxembourg has been partially blown up.
The Palais Royal is still burning, Only
one-third OF the Louvre has been saved.
The fighting continues at the Hotel dc
Vile and at the terminus of the Northern
Railroad Marshal Mcmahon with his
staff has removed to the Place Vendome.
A heavy rain is falling
New York, May 81,
A special dispatch gives details Of the
fearful scenes enacted in Paris yesterday.
The Iri6aneS correspondent says the
fighting in the Boulevard lIausseman and
Faubourg st. Honorc was very severe,
Many houses arc filled with tho dead
and wounded Of both sides. The Hotel
of the Ministry Of Finance is burning
fiGrcely, The Tuileries and the north
side ofthe Louvre are completely gutted.
Four walls only ofthe Palais Royal are
standing. The fighting Is very severe
around the Hotel dc Vile, which is blaz.
Ing with petroleum. Tho British EN-
baSsy building Is much damaged, and the
office of archives Is burned. The Place
do la Concorde Is terribly injured.
No quarter Is given. The Versailists
behave well to the inhabitants The fire
Is raging in nearly every street. The
Northern Railway station Is In the hands
of the Versaillists.
There Is heavy bombardment Of
Paris from the barricades on the top OF
Rue Fayelle.
The 7ribunes special correspondent at
Versailles, Wednesday night, says; Gen
Gral VinOy tclegraphs that he has posses
sion of the Hotel dc Vile.
Bellevile-Temple Quarter-resists
vigorously. It's reported that Delescluz
has been arrested Six great fires are
visible. r.. .
The TrtbunCS special correspondent at
Paris, Wednesday night, says; Place Ven
dome was definitely occupied at4o'clock
this morning. The insurgents made II
strong stand at Rue ST. uonore. The
Palais Royal was set on fire by the re.
tring insurgents. The capture Of Place
Vendome mado the Tuileres untenanta-
bic, and the insurgents saturated It with
petroleum and set It on fire.
The Insurgents are still fighting like
lends. The eastern Faubourg population
seem mad with joy and the trlcolor waves
everywhere. The streets are quiet and
the Versailles troops are orderly.
The hunt for the Commune leaders has
begun and the police arc searching
houses, rooms and cellars.
Paris q chveloped in dense pail Of
smoke and Is terribly damaged. The
streets arc smeared with blood and are
Uttered with debris.
Another Paris correspondent describes
the burning Of .the Tuleries Another that
Of the Hotel de Vile and the dreadful
scenes accompanying. The Austrian En-
bassy, the property of Empress Eugenie'
was also burned The CAsse des Consigna-
tion is reported destroyed, likewise the
Spanish Embassy.
Departure from Paris Is impossible and
circulation through the city difficult and
dangerous The loss Of the Versaillist
troops is small. Twelve hundred prison
era have been taken to Versailles. 1t is
reported that Bellloray, the Commune
Minister, was shot Immediately after he
was taken. The Versailllsts are sending
flremen to the city from towns within n
radius of twenty miles.
Another correspondent telegraphed
from Versailles last night that Paris is
being burned to the ground. The mad
and rrcnzied insurgents deliberately fired
the Louvre, Tuileries, Pour des Compts,
Hotel de Vile, Ministry Of Finance,
churches and every public building in
the city. The Conhagratipn is rapidly
extending. A correspondent tried to en-
ter Paris, but found it impossible. In
watching the fire he noticed tremcn.
lons increase, and third Of the city, he
says, will be burned before night.
Another correspondent from Versailles
telegraphs that the insurgents were
beaten everywhere, except at Belleville,
Montrouge and Antoine, and the chiefs
are s&edadling. Deleschuse is a prls'
oner. Dombrowski is prisoner OF the
Prussians. Thiers announces that all the
Nationals will be disarmed Immediately.
A letter from Paris says that the Yer.
saillists are mastersOnd the city is in ashes
BouLoGNE, May 24-Midnight
II Is rumored that the Communists
prisoners are coming to the same prison
that Louis Napoleon occupied.
VERSAILLES, May %.
Theirs has to-day issued circular oI
Information TO the Provinces, as follows;
1--WE are masters Of Paris, except Q
smal II portion, which will be occupied TO.