The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-10
THE COMMUNE AGAIN.

william Trant in August Century.
On the following morning. Wednesday
l again sailed forth. The first SOUND tbat
zen upon my ear was give la Lfgnei,,
ana turning round the corner of nv swell
ING place We're the soldiers of the limo
VINO Tor two hours had advanced in sin
gle fde along the Rue ST. Honore. keeping
close TO the houses, thereby finding shell
Ter from the mltraille and was poured
9aIHSC IheIn from barricade a little
Iarther on. These bluecoats moved tins
along this narrow street and down tha+
passage, convolving like a huge serpent
fastening on the city. EVERYWHERE the1,
went they were received with cheers The
lIIcoIor was hoisted out of the windows
OF the great shops that had been closed
euIihs Ihe last two months After the in
ldntry came batteries of artillery, and aft
er THESE squadrons of cavalry. a half wa.
made at the spot (above indica+adl yyboya
was standing, and the commanding Off
Ger, young fellow, smoked a cigarette
ana consulted plan of instructions. ,Jus+
tHen TWO OF his men dragged toward him
person VINO, the crowd said, was a com.
munlst. FusiIlez-leH' cried out tha
tnrong' and the officer Ct was standing
Glose 10 hlm) said "Oui, fusillezlIev' II
h tICle thought that before long I should
near the same command given as repca rds
myselt.) In less time than is occupied in
recording the fact, the poor wretch was
dragged few yards away; re of tae M.
put the muzzle of his chassenot un,1tI-
meath the victims skull, the barrel along
MS back; the other soldier stooned ana
pulled the trigger; a report, smoke.
Stoan' ana with protests of innocence on
MS lips the soul of the poor victim passed
away y"
A man standing at the corner of a street
heard two officers talking Of the bravery
OF the troops. Yes" said the loiterer
lt,Your men had fought like that against
the russians, all this would not have
happened The officer pulled out mis-
pistol ana shot him. Our army has be-
haVed heroically" said M. Theirs wv,
execute with the law and by the Ia ", -
where's your boasted liberty p, i asked
'oI a TREND, Frenchman Taking off his
shoe, he searched the inside of If very
infinitely and then said, cit has been ther3
Tor the last two months, but I think it Is
lost now.
The method of formal execution bv
young cigarette-smoking colonies. as
ABOVE indicated, was the usual kind of
execution The honor Of firing party
was reserved for a few persons of dis
junction, suchias Milliere, who had resign
ed MS seat as deputy for Paris in the
national assembly to become a mefnbor
OF the commune. He was placed In front
OF the Pantheon, and, with arm raised,
cried, "Vive lie peuplen There was a
roll OF musketry, murmur, and he was
dead. AS [ was walking away from the
sad spectacle | met MIR Holt White. Of
the Pail Mall Gazette, who said to me:
1 am sorry [ am too late. I wanted
to see MillieEe. People say he looks so
much like Jesus Christ" We then wit
messed sight that made us both shud-
der. Up to the previous day the fight
had been going on beneath a glorious
sun and a cloudless sky. was astonish-
ed to find how few traces of carnage
were to be seen in the streets. The rea
son was that the. sunshine had dried
the blood and it had become covered
with concealing layer of fine dust. Now.
however, there had been showers of rain,
and the effect was as if the very stones
of the street were bleeding afresh. Near
the Pantheon. at a spot where several
men had been shot, blood was trickling
IN sluggish streams to the gutter. Sol
diers, fatigued with the days massacre
reposed on the wet pavement, using it
also as a dining table. We saw them
eating raw meat, which they were too
fatigued to remove from the streams of
blood that trickled about tia sorry
banquet for NJ Thiers's ''heroes!"
To detail what I saw during the rest
of the fighting would be to repeat in
effect what is above written Every
where in the streets dead bodies were ly-
ing about. There were no wounded, for
the troops gave no quarter. In ever
direction the work of death and destruc-
ton went on; the human brute unchain-
ed, the imbecile wrath, the mad fury
of man devouring his brother man