Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-02-03
PARIS IS FLOODED
DRIVING RAIN SINKS HOPE y"
HEARTS or SUFFERERS OF
sELEAGuERED CAPITAL.
CITY IS A MASS OF RUINS
Army Of Masons at Work eu''o'ns
Wall to Divert Waters.-J. p.
Morgan Offers $4,000 to
BE Used In Relief.

Paris. France.-When the day broke
over Paris ana the submerged prov
inces surrounding, the prospect was
cherries one. A heavy rain had set In
and a gale of wind out of the north
served to drive the food 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 no 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 wall,
which 1t was hoped would divert the
food from the historic Hotel Lam
bert and the famous Hotel rAuzum ad-
joining. Both of these houses were
built in the seventeenth century. the
Hotel rAuzun having been purchased
by the city ten years ago and made
over as museum of art
Rue St. laxare Inundated.
The Rue st. Lazare was inundated
throughout its extent, the water hav-
ing found its way up through the SUBJ
way. The roof of the subway under
the Place de fOpera fell in during the
night.
The River Seine continues to rise
early and lacked only a 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 are de-
signed to protect Paris and nearby
points In such emergencies.
At the Place Pereire the main drain
exploded, flooding the subway and the
workmen inside narrowly escaped
with their lives. Another main broke
emptying its contents into the base
ment of the principal market and de-
stroying the entire reserve stock of
provisions.
Penetrates Heart of City,
The devastation has now penetrat-
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 overlooked by
the waters of the Seine had been
doubled. Twelve of the Is bridges
over the river have been closed and
the onays on either side from one END
OF the city to the other are either in
undated OF have been ropea on as un-
safe.
The Esplanade des Invalides is a
sheet OF water. The turgid food crept
back almost to the Jardin du Luxem-
bourg, on the left bank, and 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 Glsce and other
pleasure resorts and restaurants are
surrounded, even the Place de TOpera
at the core Of the city threatening
to sink to the subway beneath.
Tam offerS sympathy.
Washington, ID. C. President
TaH has sent telegram to President
Faiiieries, OF France, expressing the
sympathy Of the American people Tor
the food sufferers of Paris. and has
rendered him needed relief through
the National Red Cross. The state de-
partment has also sent q telegram To
ambassador Bacon, asking whether
Red Cross contributions for the relief
Q the flood sufferers In Paris and in
the French provinces were needed anfl
would be acceptable to the nation NM
people. President Taft,s Telegram tn
President Falliet.ies lis as follows.
rs there any manner IN which.
through the national Red Gross .rr
otherwise, appropriate expression
could be made of the sympathetic dis
trsss with which the peuple and gov
eminent OF the United EtHtes leasn nj
the r1pDrted cRlamfties that floods lare
causing yOur beautiful IND historic
capital. Rs we'll AS in the provinces uf
France2 Meanwhile 4 Offer ynu the
sincerest sympathy and the most .ar-
dHnt wfHhHs rthRt the cause luf thase
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