New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-03
MORE RIOTING IN PARIS
OYER FIFTY BADLY HURT.
Churchs Defenders Use Red Pepper
Against attacks of Police.

Paris. Feb. 2.-Over fifty persons seri-
ously injured and many slightly hurt in the riot
Ing at the Church of st. Gros- Caillou.
the only church where an inventory was taken
to-day. Fifty arrests were made The attack on
the building lasted for hours. the defenders
using red pepper, with which they almost blind
ed a number of the police and fremen- After
repeated efforts. the policemen succeeded in en-
tering the church by using chairs as shields
The first two men who got through the doors
We're knocked unconscious,
NJ. Lepine Prefect Of Police. other high off,
cials and newspapers of all shades OF opinion
deprecate the violence. 1t is said that the clergy
have done their best urge their congregations
TO remain calm. but without avail. the militant
Catholics being firmly resolved to resist what
they term the. sponation of the many Paris
churches. which contain millions of francs worth
OF jewelry military medals and decorations
given by devOtees as thank offerings. 1t is
charged that the blame for the recent conflicts
attaches 10 the Minister of the Interior, because
OF his order that the inventory of the churches
should be carried out before the regulations
der the Separation law have been definitely
drawn up. This leaves the Catholics uncertain
regarding the fate of church property, and their
doubts on this subject have brought about their
resistance to the order. The authorities are de-
termined however. that the law shall take its
course and that the disorders shall be suppressed
with the utmost vigor.
Twenty-Five hundred inventories have already
been made in France. many without incident
but Paris contains sixty-niae Roman Catholic
churches of which only hall have been visited
by the officials In order TO prevent a renewal
OF the disturbances tom orrow the authorities
have kept secret the hour of the commissioners
visits TO the churches
The Rue St Dominique. in which the Church
nf O.
appearance Of street in besieged city this
afternoon. All the shops in the neighborhood
of the building were closed. Municipal Guards
on foot We're stationed at intervals along the
street. and a squadron of mounted Municipal
Guards, with drawn swords patrolled the thor
oughfare and kept the crowds moving.
When the Prefect of Police, NJ. Lepne. ar
rived the bells were toIled and the people inside
the church, numbering about three thousand
persons, began singing psalms. while outside the
rough element shouted revolutionary songs. NJ.
Lepine thrice summoned the congregation to
open the inside gates. which the people refused
TO do Ffremen were ordered to force an en-
trance. using their hatchets. AS they mounted
ladders in order to break in the windows of the
Chapel of the Virgin, annex of the church.
revolver shots rang out, and the firemen retired.
fire engine arrived on the scene, and amid
a shower OF missiles the fremen scrambled up
10 the roof with hose. the water was turned
on and the interior of the building soon
flooded. In the mean time the doors had been
| battered down. but the Municipal Guards found
barricades inside and met fierce resistance
Many of the guards and the congregation were
severely hurt, but the authorities eventually OBJ
tanned the mastery, and the rioters were capt
ured one by and led to the nearest station
house.
In the mean while unruly crowds of Socialists
outside had broken through the cordons of the
Municipal Guards and attetcpted TO reach the
church and engage in the fight with its defend
ers, but the mounted guards scattered and drove
them away from the neighborhood.
OF the 120 persons arrested in riots only
forty-seven have been detained in custody,
among them the Count de BOuille and Robert
d'Harcourt, nephew of the Count De Nun, who
was arrested and released at st. Clothilde's
Church yesterday One priest and two mu-
nicipal councillors have been held. The police
give the names of seven persons seriously in
jured. including the Marquis Daubigny and two
priests The worst case recorded is that of
youth named De Lassus, whose skull was
fractured. The "Gaulos'' states that art
student named Pradier is dying from injuries.