The morning call., 1893-07-05
Disorder Reigns in the
French Capital.
GIVEN OVER TO THE MOB.
An Entire District of the City in the
Keeping of the RiOtous
Students.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

PARIS, July 4.-Riotous demonstrations
were continued by the students of the
Latin. Quarter to-day The police were
unable to disperse the mobs, and eventu-
ally large detachment of cavalry charged
and scattered the students.
The whole district bounded by the
Boulevard st. Germain, the river and the
Rue de Seine is in an uproar Students
with crowds of roughs fill the open
spaces; omnibuses and trancars have
been stopped by mobs, the passengers
turned out and the vehicles upset Traffic
is suspended in the district. The Rue ST.
Peres is barricaded, and pedestrians are
stopped and maltreated.
The Charity Hospital is surrounded
with cuirassiers to keep off the students,
who threatened to attack the building.
The Ministry of Public Works. the Marine
Department and Ecole des Beaux Artes are
guarded by military.
Skirmishng is reported occasionally
from various points.
The students tried also to repeat the
scenes of last night in the neighborhood
of the Palais de Justice and the Prefecture
of Police. They were met and driven
back by body of cavalry. Many were
trampled on and cut. and several cavalry
men were wounded by flying stones.
At 1880 the students had possession of
dozen streets between the Boulevard st.
Germain and the Seine. Infantry and cav
airy are at hand. however, to restrain
them from breaking into public buildings.
At II: 80 the whole district two blocks
east of the Boulevard St. Michael was in
full riot. Troops of cavalry and squads of
police are stationed in every street The
students are upsetting all vehicles and
scores of carts and carriages have been set
on fire. Many students are using revol-
vers.
pital were charged repeatedly by the po-
lice, but fought back and would not dis
perse. Allies in windows near the
hospital were pelting the police with
crockery and furniture and cotton wool
saturated with carbolic acid. Many po-
licemen were injured. Although holding
the mob at the hospital in check. the police
were unsuccessful in taking the offensive.
The cuirassiers have not as yet interfered.
The critical situation has been COM
plicated by demonstrations of working
men. Three thousand of them met this
evening and decided to remain in the
building all night to prevent the authori-
ties from executing threat to close it.
More than 1900 workingmen have been
marching eight abreast through the dis
turbed district during the evening.
The keenest anxiety is everywhere
apparent. General Saussier. Military
Governor of Paris, has prepared the gar
rison for the worst.
Later the mobs piled up carriages and
carts, which they seized TO barricade the
streets All the shops in the riotous dis
tricts closed early in the evening. The
names of 200 men severely Injured in the
riots have been reported.
At l O'Clock reports from the Latin
Quarter said that most Of the windows in
the district had been broken. Iampposts
were lying across the streets and broken
furniture and half-smashed vehicles lay
strewn over the pavement.
A police brigadier is said to have been
severely wounded with revolver. Paris
newspapers say that one policeman has
been killed and thirty or forty policemen
and $50 rioters injured.