Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-07-08
PARIS UNDER ARMS.
The Mob Charged Upon
by the Military.
MANY RIOTERS WOUNDED.
Newspaper Reporter Brutally As
saulted and Beaten by the Police.

PARIS, Jul, s-Last evening opened
with tie pol..s apprehensive OF -iots in
many par Of the Latin quarter. Traffic
was sLoppe in the principal streets
Every open space had been occupied by
mounted police, and all the side streets
were patrolled. The street sp ,akers were
compelled to move on whenever they tried
to call crowd. M, vt Of the agitators
therefore retired to the cafes. where they
denounced the police and exhorted their
hearers TO clear the streets Of military
Round the Place de la Republique the
signs Of trouble were especially numer-
GUS All the cafes In the Boulevard du
Temple and the Boulevard voltaire were
filled at 3 o'clock with workingmcn and
rowdies, who were expected shortly to fol-
low the chief agitators into the streets and
begin the attack ON the police and mill
tary. Shortly before o o'clock the cafes
were empty. and the mobs were again in
the streets
In the Boulevarde Voltaire and the
Boulevard du Temple
The Rioters We're Armed
with clubs and q few revolvers. They
marched, cheering and singing. toward
the Place de La Republique At the
corner Of the Rue d'Angouleme the rioters
In the Boulevard voltaire were met by a
body of drag oons and lancers. They were
ordered back, but pressed ahead. The
military charged. but, although many
rioters were knocked down and trampled,
the mob did not yield. The soldiers were
received with showers Of stones and
scattering shots. Several were struck
with clubs.
The charge was repeated, and the mob
began retreating slowly. There was no
scattering or signs Of panic. The men
backed of step by step, those in front
welding their clubs right and left and
those behind splitting up booths and
kiosks into weapons with which to fight
later in front After six charges the mill
tary had forced the mob back to the boule-
ward Richard Lenoir, where the fighting
was suspended.
booths which they did not split into
clubs. For five blocks the boulevard Vol
taire Is strewn with broken timbers,
charred boards and torn and bloody cloth
ing. Most Of the windows were smashed
during the conflict Thirty or 40 rioters
are known to have been
Seriously Wounded.
Many others received slight injuries Two
lancers are said to have been wounded by
revolver shots.
In the boulevard du Temple similar en-
counters took place. The mob was driven
back, but only after hard fighting
In the avenue de la Republique and on
the quai de Valmy, along the canal St
Martin, the fighting between the rioters
and the Republican guards was almost
uninterrupted from 8:45 to 10 o'clock.
Booths and carts were dragged to the
middle of the streets and set affe. Brands
were thrown among the guards.
When the mob was pushed by the Mill
tary from the avenue de la Republique
into the side street du Grand Prieure,
allies of the rioters began firing from the
windows on the military. Two soldiers
were wounded. Dozens Of rioters are re-
ported as having been injured during the
fight in the side street.
Throughout the evening the police
treated brutally the reporters who were
sent out to describe the riots Several
newspaper men were assaulted and beaten
by the police.
The fighting between rioters and mill
tary at the place de la Republique and In
the nearby streets continued at o'clock
this morning.
The feeling Il the workingmen against
the students who refuse to participate in
the riots is very bitter. NJ. Carere, chair
man of the students committee which
sent out the proclamation against the
rioters, was attacked on his way home last
night by two rowdies and three laborers.
They stabbed him, beat him and left him
for dead Although severely wounded, he
probably will recov or.