The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-21
Everything in Structure Wrecked,
Including Old Paintings.
Hospitals FilleA with wounded, The
Result Of the Nany ConAicts With
the P0lice-The Demonstration
Was Started OoteAslbly - Be-
halt Of Dreyfus and Was Direct
eA Against the Army, the Anta-
Numbers Of the RioteTs Arrested
Will initiate Against ORoyfus.

PARIS, Aug. a-Paris was today the
scene Of the most serious disturbances. re-
calling some aspect OF the commone. In
response TO an appeal Of the Journal du
Peuple and La Patrie. groups OF anarchists
and socialists gathered about o'clock this
afternoon In the place de la RepubiiQue.
The police had taken precautions and there
seemed no danger OF disorders.
First Meeting DisperseA.
Sebastian Faure and Faberot. well known
revolutionary anarchists. were the ring
leadera Faure standing on the pedestal
of the statue which rises in the center OF
the place de la Republique. addressed the
crowd Among other things he said that
the anarchists should be masters OF the
streets The police then interfered and dis
lodged Faure and Faber making three ar
rests The crowd At this point dispersed.
but a column OF demonstrators. headed BY
Faure and Henri de Horr. made for the
place de La Nation.
Police COmmissaRy Stabbed.
The police broke their column and In a
struggle for mastery afterward. shots were
fired and NJ. Coulter. commissary OF police,
was twice stabbed with knife. This
threw the police into momentary confusion
The mob reassembled and ran toward the
place de La Nation. The police. reinforced
BY a squad which have been held In re-
serve. made another attemptsto stem the
current and fresh. fierce hghting occurred.
three constabies being wounded
Ring Leaders Arrested.
Faure and de Horr jumped into pass
inR street car that was going to the place
de La Republique and the car driver on
arriving there gave a signal to the police.
who Immediately arrested them both. TO-
gether with two other anarchists. Joseph
Ferrier and Jean Perrin.
All were conveyed to Chateau d'Eau bar
racks. Only de Horr was found In possce-
sion OF nre arms. In the meantime the
anarchist mob retraced its course to the
place de La Republique smashing the win
dows on the way
Mob Wrecks . Church.
Suddenly at the word OF command or IN
obedience to an impulse. the column made
a loop, and curved toward the church Of
ST. Ambrose, where the rioters smashed
the windows Proceeding thence toward the
Fauborg du Temple at the corner OF rue
Darbory and the rue St. Mauri-Popincourf.
they formed up into compact body.
Hatchets were suddenly produced. with
long knives, stolen from the counters o.
shops. and a concerted rush was made upon
the church OF ST. Joseph. The aged sacris-
tan. seeing the mob. hastily closed the
outer gates. but these were soon forced
with hatchets and bars OF IRON The mas
s.ve oaken doors we're then attacked.
scenes of sacrilcGe and PilIage.
According 10 the frs; account. the wild
horde burst into the church, which In
s.anfly became scene OF pillage and
sacrlIege. Affairs and statues were hurled
70 the floor and smashed pictures were
rent candiesticks. ornaments and hosts
from hish affairs were thrown down and
trampled under foot The crucffx above
was made the large. for missiles. and the
figure Of the Savior was fractured In sey-
erai places.
Then while racuous voices sang the
"Carmagnoie," the chairs we're carried
outside. piled up and set on fre in the
center o. the square fronting the church
when this stage was reached the cruel
fix was pulled down and thrown into the
flames. Suddenly the cry was raised that
thu statue OF the virgin had been forgotten.
and the crowd returned and tore this 1own
also.
Police Attack the Mob.
Meanwhile the sacr.s,an who hsi been
captured by the anarchists. escaped and
called the police and guards. who prompt
iy arrived with many eonstaoies. They
were compelled ,o fail back and form up
into line OF defense. as the anarchists at
tackled then, fearlessiy wish knives.
AT length the officers began 20 gain the
mastery A score os anarchists took ref
uge in an adjacent house. Others IN
trerened themselves IN the heifry AMI de-
Tended themselves by showering missiles
on the guards. tu. finally these were dis
lodged. Twenty anarchists we're arrested.
taken 10 the police station an1 searched
and found 20 Ne carrying revoivers. loaded
sticks ard knives
When the police entered the church the
anarchists had set ere 10 the pulpit. The
interior ~ the e1lfc~ was a complete
wreck. Several valuable old pictures that
car never he replaced were ruined. After
the mob had been driven away AbSe Le-
cour. the Incumbent collected the frsx-
men,s os the sacrament and replaced them
IN the cgooY.um. As he ia %. he Was
heard h&,ssriy lanen'snx
The people Ilving ~ TIRE houses near BY
ex.ln~tisshed the sonhrs-
Police Rost the Disssrsegs.
N,dusgat-sanes . O'Clock TIE eemon-