The Yale expositor., 1899-08-25
PnRIS AOBS DEFY FCTCE.
Demonstration Of knarch 'sts Leads
to Serious Rioting.
CATHOLIC CHURCH SACKED.
Everything In the Holy Edifce Destroy ed
Pitched Battles Frequent During
the Afternoon and Far Into the
Night-Mobs Finally Dispersed.

Paris, Aug. ga demonstration be-
gun here Sunday by anarchists and So
cialists was followed by riot, pillage
and street fights. so serious as to re-
call the terrible days of the commune
The worst disturbance was at the
Catholic church of st. Joseph, which
was attacked by a mob determined to
vent its hatred of holy things. Every
thing in the church was destroyed.
Preceding the attack On ST. Joseph's, a
meeting of anarchists and socialists in
the Place de la Republique was at
tackled by the police, and this was the
beginning of the fighting.
The reports C. the prefecture of po-
lice show the following as the result
of the days rioting: Rioters injured,
$50; taken TO hospitals, $50; police
agents wounded, 6l; rioters arrested,
$50; rioters detained in custody, so.
What promised at first to be only an
ordinary street demonstration devel-
oped into a disturbance that verged on
revolution. The sacking of st. Joseph's
church was a scene recalling the days
of the commune. Not a portable, in
fiammable or breakable article was left
in the sacred building by the mob, and
the destruction of the structure itself
at one time seemed imminent. Oil was
poured over the choir loft and the
woodwork was ablaze when help came
aad the flames were eXtinguished.
The police, aided by the military.
had all they could do to prevent even
more serious trouble Pitched battles
in the streets were waged during the
afternoon and late into the night. Sew
.eral times it seemed that the officers
were on the point Of utter rout Hun
dreds of persons were wounded and
suspects by the score were placed un-
der arrest. A number of churches
were asailed and two cafes were
wrecked by the rioters. After hours
of fighting quiet waF finally restored.
1t was in response to an appeal by
the Journal du People and La Petite
Republique that the anarchist and so
ciaist groups gathered for a demon
stration about o'clock in the after
noon. Faure and Faberat, well-known
anarchists, were the leaders, and Faure
was making an incendiary speech when
the police dispersed the crowd, max
ing three arrests. A column of dem
onstrators. headed by Faure and Henri
d'Horr, made for the Place de la Ma
tion.
The police broke through the column
and a struggle followed in which shots
were fred. NJ Gouillier, commssary
of police, was twice stabbed with a
knife and the police were thrown into
momentary confusion. Faure and
D'Horr and Joseph Ferrier and Jean
Perrin were arrested and taken to the
Chateau dEau barracks, while the
column OF rioters swung toward the
Church Of st. Ambrose, where the win
dows were broken with stones. Sew
eral other religious ediflces received
similar treatment until st. Joseph $
was reached, when suddenly hatchets
were produced and a concerted rush
was made on the church. The gates
were closed by the aged sacristan, but
these were soon forced with the hatch
cts and bars of iron.
Affairs and statues were thrown
down and smashed valuable pictures
destroyed and the Host from the high
altar, along with candlesticks and or
naments, was trampled under foot.
While the mob sung the "Carmagnole"
the chairs were piled up outside the
church and burned. The crucifX and
a statue Of the Virgin were thrown into
the burning pile.
The police dislodged the rioters from
the church after severe fight and
twenty rioters, all of them armed,
were arrested The church is in the
poorest quarter Of the city. There were
no disturbances in the fashionable dis
tricts. There was a fierce struggle in
the Avenue de Tailebourg, where the
police had to use their swords. In the
Boulevard de Magenta paving stones
were torn up by the rioters and used as
missiles.
There was no change in the situation
at the building in the Rue de Chabroi
where Guerin and the other anti
Semites are intrenched.