Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-26
LATEST NEWS.
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FROM EUROPE.
The Scenes in Paris.
A PERFECT REIGN OF TERROR.
INHUMAN BUTCHERIES IN THE CITY.
Flames Raging on all Sides.
THREATENED DESTRUCTION OF
THE CAPITAL.
FULL PARTICULARS FROM VERSAILLES
AND PARIS UP TO THE LATEST HOUR.
Other Foreign Matters.
DESTRUCTION OF
THE CAPITAL.
FULL PARTICULARS FROM VERSAILLES
AND PARIS UP TO THE LATEST HOUR.
Other Foreign Matters

LONDON, May $3.50 A. M.-The latest
dispatches from Paris say that the Luxembourg
palace has been partially blown up. The Palais
Royal is still burning. Only oue-third OF the
at the hotel de Ville and at the terminus of
the Northern railroad. A savage feeling exists
among the Versailles troops. Four prisoners
were shot because they sat down. Rochefort
was brought to Versailles handcuffed. He had
five thousand francs and much iewery in his
possession. He refused to answer the questions
which were put to him by Picard. NJ. Theirs is
afraid to pardon him, and asks the committee
to exercise the prerogative of mercy.
The fighting to-day in the Haussmann bOule
ward and the faubourg ST. Honore was very
severe. Many houses are filled with the dead
and wounded of both sides. The hotel of Min
istry and Finance are burning fercely. The
four walls only of the Palais Royal are stand
ing. The British embassy building is much
damaged. The audit Office of archives is burnt.
Place de Ia Concorde is terribly injured. No
quarter is given. The Versailsts behave well
to the inhabitants. A fire is raging in nearly
every street.
PARIS, May 25.-Dnring the last few days ten
thousand prisoners have marched through Ver-
Sailles, including company of Amzons of the
Seine and a battalion of patriotic children
Mounted genSd armes forced the Amazons,
some of whom were handcutfed, to walk under
the brOiling sun. Their appearance caused
much mirth, but they maintained q defiant Look
Even the children seemed to feel that the eyes
of Europe were on them. Many old men were
among the prisoners The Northern railway
station is in the hands of the Versailists. The
capture of the Place Vendome made the fuller
les untenabe, and the insurgents saturated it
with petroleum and set it on fire. The insur-
gents are still fighting like iends The eastern
iaubourg population seem mad with joy, and the
tri-color waves everywhere. The streets are
quiet and the Versailles troops are orderly
The hunt for thp Commune leaders has bppu he
gun, and the police are searching the houses,
rooms and cellars. Paris is enveloped in dense
pale smoke, and terribly damaged. The streets
are smeaTed with blood and Uttered with debris.
Ldter-Special to Herald: The scenes which
are transporting in this city are frightful This
morning only the bare walls of the Tuileries are
left hanging. The insurgents fired the building
Yesterday, being determined to destroy all that
is of value in the city rather than permit the
Versailles government to get possession of
them. From eleven o'clock last night to day
light this morning, l stood on top of the Ameri-
can legation building, watching the burning of
the Hotel de Vile. 1t was an awful sight. At
two O'Clock this morning the entire facade was
a mass of lurid flames. The building of the
Austrian embassy, which is the property of the
Empress Eugene, has been burned. The Caisse
deS Consignation and the Spanish embassy are
both reported destroyed. The destruction of
property has been frightful and it still con-
tinues. Departure from Paris is impossible and
circulation in the city is difficult.
One hundred and nine pieces of cannon be-
longing to the government forces are now point
ed down the rue Lafayette. The troops are
taking the barbados in splendid style and with
the most reckless gallantry. Their losses are
severe as the insurgents pour terrible fire into
their ranks from the houses. All the barricades
in the Place de la Concorde have been carried
Heavy fighting is now going on between Pre-
melle and Mont Parnasse. The losses of the
Versailles troops yesterday were small. Twelve
thousand insurgents have already been taken
prisoners. 1t is reported that M. Billioray, the
last minister of war of the commune, was shot
Immediately after he was captured. The Yer
sailles authorities are sending firemen and fire
engines from all the towns within a radius of
twenty miles, in hope of checking the progress
of the conhagration.
Special to the Tribune: The communists do
not attempt to occupy the houses and fire there
from on the advancing Versaillists. They are
content with utilizing the barricades and such
cover as the streets afford On the other hand,
the Versallists enter the houses and expose
themselves very little. They never venture to
hand-to-hand fighting. A handful of resolute
communists held theIHaussman boulevard They
were gradually turned in flank and rear, and,
after gallant resistance, stole away TO the new
opera house. Twenty-Five insurgents blocked
the boulevard, and the VerSaillists were afraid
10 rush on them. The people from house to
house were firing from the windows, while their
people rushed out clapping their hands and
throwing wine and money TO the troops.
The women embrace them amid shouts of
"Viue la 6gneP The soldiers fraternized warm
ly, but preserved admirable discipline.
The Versaillists pressed down the Chaussee
d'Autin, and crossed the great boulevards, but
with considerable loss, the communists gallant
ly contesting every inch. Yesterday morning,
the insurgents, unable to hold the Tuileries, set
fire to it with petroleum. The flames burst
through the wing facing the Tuieries garden,
in eight different places and extended to the
Louvre and other public buildings. Last night,
the insurgents fought desperately for the hotel
de Vile, and, while the Versaillists were afraid
to rush upon the barricades, the mining, circum-
venting and burrowing insurgents, dealt death
and destruction over Paris. The suns heat was
dominated by the heat of the conhagratiOn, and
its rays by the smoke. The Versaillists rot say
age, but seemed childishly glad to be in Paris.
OUTSIDE OF PARIS, May 25-lforning.- There
was furious cannonading and firing of musketry
during the whole of last night. The insurgent
batteries in the ACCOMPLISHMENT DIES buttes Chau-
mont still hold out CONGREGATIONS are decreas-
ing, Notwithstanding the fact that the engines,
many of which are arriving from the provinces,
have accomplished but little.
AfternoOn-Since moor, "a strong south easterly
wind has prevailed, which blows the flames to-
ward the Place de la Bastille, threatening the
entire city with destruction. The government
DuIIefleS are uOuludlultS DClitNlt QudIl6I.
Communication with the interior of the city is
still closed.
VERSAILLES, May 25.-Thiers has to-day
issued a circular of information to the provinces
as follows: owe are masters of Paris, except a
small portion which will be occupied to-day
The Louvre has been saved, the hotel of the
minister Of finance has been partially burned
and the Tuileries and Palais du quay DOrsay,
in which the council of state holds its sessions,
is wholly destroyed. We have already 10000
prisoners and shall have 10000. The streets of
Paris are strewrl with insurgent corpses Our
loss is small. The army has behaved admra-
bly,. Justice will soon be satisfied and France
he happy in the midst of her own misfortunes."
The government troops have occupied Fort
Bicetre. Raone and Rigault, two prominent
leaders of the commune, have been shot.
Njght-Archbishop Darboy, ten hostages,
and nearly fifty priests were murdered in cold
blood at the Mazas prison Tuesday night. Sew
eral leaders of the commune were shot to-day,
after being tried by u drum-head court martial.
The widest excitement prevails here over the
events of the last few days. Firing has contin-
ued ceaselessly in the streets of Paris through
out the night, and still goes on this morning.
The insurgents are creating fearful havoc with
petroleum bombs, which they are firing from
batteries established at buttes Chaumont. The
leaders, of the commune who have not been shot
or captured arc skedaddling in every direction,
and the Versailles authorities are making des-
perate eXertions to prevent their escape NJ
Deleschuze Is now prisoner in the hands of
the government, and Gen. Dombrowski is held
prisoner at st. Denis by the Prussians. M.
Theirs has announced that all the national
guards throughout the country are to be imme.
diately disarmed This announcement gives
great satisfaction to the majority in the assem-
bly,.
Picard read an official dispatch in the assem-
bly, to-day, announcing that Fort Montroage,
the redoubt Of Hautes- Bruyers, the Pantheon and
the wine market had been taken by theIgovern-
ment forces. Nothing is known as to the fate
Of the hostages in the hands of the insurgents,
and the most gloomy apprehensions are enter
tanned in regard to them. 1t is rumored YER
saillists have occupied the Chaumoat buttes,