The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-02-04
PAR.S FLOODED
DRIVING RAIN SINKS HOPE IN
HEARTS OF SUFFERERS OF
BeLEAGUERED CAPITAL.
CITY IS A MASS OF RUINS
Army cf Masors at Work Building
Wall to Divert Waters.-J. P.
Morgan Offers $5o,o00 to
Be Used in Relief.

Paris. France-When the day broke
over Paris ana the submerged prov
nces surrounding. the prospect was a
cheerless one A heavy rain had set in
and a gale of wind out of the north
served to drive the flood to points
which heretofore had escaped its in
vasion.
Wire Communication Difficult.
Telegraph communication with the
outside world is extremely defective,
and at times wholly interrupted.
There is ne direct communication be-
tween this city and England, and mes
sages for central Europe were divert
ed through indirect routes.
A great force of masons are still
at work in the erection of a wall,
which it was hoped would divert the
flood from the historic Hotel Lam
bert and the famous Hotel IAuzlm ada
joining Both Of these houses were
built in the seventeenth century, the
by the city ten years ago and made
over as museum of art.
Rue st. Lazare Inundated.
The Rue st. Lazare was inundated
throughout its extent, the water hav-
ing found its way up through the sub
way. The roof of the subway under
the Place de rOpera fell in during the
night.
The River Seine continues u rise
early and lacked only few inches
of attaining the greatest food max
imum on record. This was in 1915,
and when the country was without
the modern barriers which aIe de-
signed to protect Paris and near-by
points in such emergencies.
At the Place Perere the main drain
exploded, flooding the subway ard the
workmen inside narrowly escaped
with their lives. Another main broke
emptying its contents into the base
ment of the principal market AID de-
stroying the entire reserve stock of
provisions
Penetrates Heart of City.
The devastation has now peletrat-
ed the very heart of Paris, the gorg-
ing rivers and sewers underneath lit
orally blowing up the streets, while
the area of the surface Overlloyed by
the waters of the Seine had been
doubled Twelve of the % bridges
over the river have been cltsed and
the quays on either side from one end
of the city to the other are ,ither in
undated or have been roped IF as un-
safe.
The Esplanade des Invalies is a
sheet of water The turgid fbod crept
back almost to the Jardn d Luxem-
bourg, on the left bank. ant invaded
the Place de la ConcOrde, which was
closed and guarded by soldiers, and
the lower Champs Elysee, on the right
bank. The Palais de Glace md other
pleasure resorts and restaurants are
surrounded, even the Place ,e lOpera
at the core of the city threatening
to sink to the subway beneth
Taft Offers Sympathy.
Washington, ID. C. President
Taft has sent telegram toPresident
Fallieries, of France, expressing the
sympathy of the American people for
the flood sufferers Of Paris and has
rendered him needed relic through
the National Red Cross. Th state de-
partment has also sent tsegram to
Ambassador Bacon, asking whether
Red Cross contributions forthe relief
the food sufferers in Pals and in
the French provinces were peded and
would be acceptable to the htion and
people. President Taft's teegram to
President Fallieres is as FLOWS:
rs there any manner which.
through the national Red Cross or
otherwise, appropriate Expression
could be made of the symmhetic dis
tress with which the peopL and gov
ernment Of the United Stats learn of
the reported calamities thatfloods are
causing your beautiful an historic
capital, as we'll as in the pDvinces of
France? Meanwhile | offe you the
sincerest sympathy and til most ar
dent wishes that the caus of these
disasters may soon abate'