The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-02
PARIS ON FIRE.
Awful Scenes Of Misery and Suffering
mt Neuilly.

NJ Neuilly.
The London Times of the Goth pub
fishes the following, bearing date of
Paris, the 10Th ult.:
The armistice commenced nominally
at nine o'clock but after that hour by
Paris time. shells were still falling near
the Arc de TriOmphe. This excited
great Indignation among the Parisians.
| passed through Porte Ternes and
found it much knocked about, though
no breach has been made. The avenue
and the adjoining streets had suffered
terribly. Many houses are wrecks, with
the upper stories mere crumbling
masses of masonry. In Neuilly the
doorways were crowded with people,
chiefly women and children, timidly
venturing into daylight after nearly
three weeks close imprisonment in
their houses and even cellars. They
eagerly asked if it was true that the az
mistice had commenced, and what time
they had to escape. One man begged
for newspaper, declaring he had heard
nothing from the outside world for
many days. | saw no signs of starva-
ton, but most had been obliged to live
on bread and wine, as no meat was pro-
durable. Many were suffering from a
state of mental excitement painful to
witness. In the Avenue Foy | came
upon barricade of the Versaillists
facing a Communist barricade about 500
yards off. The officer in command said
he had received no intimation of an ar
mistice, and that he, therefore, had a
right to continue firing. Notwithstand-
I'M, no oil nx.a1 10 int al
est ambulance. There we found
priest, who led us into a neighboring
house, among the ruins Of which lay
several dead National Guards. The
bodies had evidently been there many
days and were in state Of decomposi-
! ton. Most had received bullet wounds
through the head, apparently in the act
of firing through loopholed walls at the
barbados and houses close by The
house in which they lay had been dam.
aged and almost broken i'm pieces by
shells and riddled by bullets. The
upper portion had fallen in and the side
wall had given way. There werepeople
in the cellars above whose heads all the
fighting has been going on. They had
been kept from starvation by occasional
donations Of food, given sometimes by
the Versailles troops sometimes by the
Communists, as each side got possession
of the house. The cellars were dark,
close and damp. In one lay the body
of woman, dead from the effects of inn
prisonment, no doctor having been pro-
durable for her. The Versailles troops
were searching the cellars for wine and
selling what they found. They seemed
greatly wanting in compassion and SYM
pathy for their dead enemies. In the
Rue Pelloner- where the heavist fight
Ing had gone on, not a tree was left
whole. Mort were torn to brts by the
mltrailleurs- Between the two bar
racks lay the decomposed body of an
ouvrier, which neither side had been
able to remove The bamicades Were
aboalt 500 yards apart, each strongly pro-
teeted by miteailleurs. There were sol.
dieas in houses between but they had
beeE living III cellars, and could only
change quarters by crawling along on
the ground under q shower of
bullets and mitraille. The hostile out
posts were within forty yards of each
other, firing through loopholed walls.
The troops to-day remained near their
respective barbados. The Versaillaists
had received orders not to hold any
communication with the National
Guards, and firmly repealed all advan-
ees. There seemed great bitterness on
both sides. Neuilly soon became filed
with crowds looking for their friends
and helping to carry away furniture.
There was naturally great confusion.
which was much increased by the refu-
sal of the Versailles officers to let the
crowd pass to the lower end of the
Avenue de Neuilly. Several arrests of
ambulanciers and National Guards were
made. There were loud complaints that
these proceedings destroyed the use of
the armistice. There is every prospect
of an immediate renewal of the fighting,
with increased luminosity. Porte Maillot
has been severely damaged, but not
preached The southern forts have been
firing all day.
SAD ACCIDENT.-A drayman named
Patrick Fox, of Minneapolis. Mimi.
while moving the material of a match
factory recently picked up can com.
posed of chloride of potash, phosphorus,
and glue. used in the manufacture of
parlor matches, which he threw upon
his load with such force as to explode. a
large portion of the blazing mass strik-
ing him directly in his face and breast,
knocking him to the ground senseless.
One end of the factory was burned
brown and almost fired, while the dray
was badly burned and shattered. Fox
was assisted to his home. and physi-
clans summoned, who found that both
eyes had been bursted, and one of them
blown entirely out of his face. His
breast, both hands and arms were lit
orally cooked, and the victim suffered
the most intense pain. At the last re-
port he was still alive, though no hopes
are entertained of preserving his eye.
sight.
BE TRUE and faithful to yourselves
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