Passaic City record., 1893-07-08
BARRICADES IN PARIS.
AN ANGRY COMMUNE STARTS
A REIGN OF TERROR.
Desperate Fighting Between the Mob
and the Police-Troops Concen-
trated at Paris-Agitators Take
Advantage of Students Row to
Stir Hin Strife

trated at Paris-Agitators Take
Advantage of Students Row to
Stir Up Strife.
A cablegram from Paris says After twenty.
two years the Commune has again built bar.
ricades in the streets of Paris. Every effort
was at first a street fight between the police
and angry students has become an uprising
with which the civil forces and the whole
military garrison of Paris are deemed
inadequate to cope. Three or four
persons have been killed and many
wounded in several desperate encounters be
tween the mob and the soldiers and police.
Several streets where these battles have taken
place look as they did in the dark days of
1871. No glass remains unbroken. No
lamp posts or kiosks are standing. Dozens
of street cars and omnibuses lie in ruins
where they were upset for barricades. Even
the pavement in some spots have been torn
up, to furnish weapons and barriers for the
mob.
These facts would be terribly ominous in
Paris under most circumstances. There is.
however, no danger of revolution that is
not yet. There is reason for fearing more
disturbances The past few days have deep
significance. The disturbances have not
first or second day. There is evidence of
sinister efforts to use the death of young
Nuger and other acts of police
violence, to foment the angry populace
against vested authority. The motive is not
far to seek when it is considered that the
elections are only six or seven weeks off, and
that the Government is in weak hands.
There is danger, therefore, that the killing of
the unknown young man at the hands of the
stupid and brutal police will furnish more
powerful weapon to political conspirators
than did the greatest scandal of modern
times-the Panama affair, last winter.
There is no denying that very deep public
resentment has been aroused, and the Gov
ernment has good reason to be greatly
alarmed !; but its enemies do not desire its
overthrow just yet, and they would not push
the popular rage to bloodiest revenge if
they could.
Even if the disturbances should not be re-
newed next months emergency has been
made ten-fold more serious. A bitter feud has
been engendered between the people and the
police, and it will almost surely break out
again on the sight1t provocation. Troops
have been hurried in from Vincennes. Yer
sailles. and Fontainebleau to reinforce the
Paris garrison. At nightthe streets ring with
the clatter of hoofs and sabres. Thousands
of cavalry are massed In the disturbed dis
tricts. and the officers have orders to show
no mercy to rioters. A heavy rain during the
night did more than the troops to disperse
the mob, but the ugly feeling has by no
means been quenched. Probably a half million
people are on the streets of the Latin quarter
every night.
A mob in the Boulevard ST. Michel assumed
threatening attitude and the police charged
upon the crowd. The mob made deter
mined stand. showering stones and every
kind of missile on the police. A hand-to-
hand fight followed and the struggle con-
tinued until the police were reinforced by
large force of Republican Guards, when the
rioters were dispersed.
In the meantime a body of police and Re-
publican Guards had driven off the turbulent
crowds that had gathered in the neighbor-
hood of the Labor Exchange, which is now
occupied by troops. At IL O'Clock there was
a sanguinary encounter on the Rue des
Ecoles The Republican Guards charged
upon the rioters with drawn swords. and the
police opened fire with revolvers. One man
was killed on the spot by cut from a sabre.
Another mob upset and set fire to tram
car on the Rue Monge. The car was burned
to ashes by the time the firemen arrived ON
the scene.
An assistant brigadier of police was found
drowned near the Grenelle Bridge, and is
supposed to have been thrown into the water
by the mob.
Three policemen were thrown into the
Seine by the mob during the rioting. 1t is
supposed that they were drowned, as they
have not since been seen. The French
Government has ordered to Paris reinforce
ments from the garrisons at Versailles,
Meiun and other places.
Forty-two policemen and sixteen Repub-
ican Guards were wounded during the
fighting. Eighteen kiosss were burned and
forty-fve others ranSacked.