The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-28
Chasm Opens on Street, Engulfing Cart
and Two Men, Storms Continue===PeopIe
Are in Despair=== Worse Than War

Paris, Jan. oS.-The boiling waters
of the Seine we're still rising al noon
today at the rate Of an inch and a
quarter an hour. There is a steady y
downpour of rain and the temperature
is falling. Everywhere the situation
Is appreciably worse than yesterday.
An unfavorable shift Of the wind
from north to southwest. accompan.
led by falling barometer and heavy
rain added n new thrill of horror to
the stricken city and country this fore
noon. Throughout the night the con-
dtion grew moro serious.
The devastation has now penetrated
the very heart OF Paris. the gorging
rivers and sewers underneath literal
ly blowing ZIP the streets while the
area of the surface overflowed by the
waters OF the Seine had been doubled
today. Twelve OF the 25 bridges over
the river have been closed and tho
Quays on either side of them have
been roped of as unsafe,
The Esplanade des Invnlideg Is
sheet of water. The flood has crept
back almost TO the Jardin du Luxem-
bourg on Its left bank and invaded
the Place dc La Concorde. which was
closed and guarded by soldiers and
the lower Champs E1ysees on the
right bank
The Palais de Glace and other re-
sorts and restaurants are surround
ed, even the Place L'Opera, at the
core of the city. threatening to sink
TO the subway beneath. Cellars
throughout the district from that
point 10 the st. Lazare station. com.
prlslng the Fauborg Mont Martre, and
the Rue Berger and the hcher sec.
tions in the Rue de Provence. the Rue
Drouot and the Rue Chateau Don arc
filled TO tho street level with water
from the oyerflowed Subterranean
river
The Palace OF the Legion OF Honor
has been evacuated Tho situation
In the nelghborhood OF tho French in.
sUtute has become desperate
War would hardly play such havoc.
The city of Hight has become a city
of slime. filled with muddy waters.
Business ia at q standstill and the
hotels are crowded with persons who
have fled from the Inundated homes
The prices of necessarles are advanc-
Ing rapidly as the decentralization of
transportation facilities extends
The roads leading TO the city were
filed early today with pedestrians
going TO their work and long process.
sions OF refugees bent beneath the
weight of sacks containing the few
belongings that they had been able to
save Practically all are without
funds
Disaster followed disaster during
tho day. A gaping chasm opened in
the lower Champs Elysees. enculfin2
n cart and two men. One of the men
was rescued. but the other with the |
horse was swept away
Toward noon the water gushed out |!
Of the Tuilleries entrance to the Met
Topolitan subway. flooding the square |
In front OF tho Comedie Francaise An |
to keep the water down in |
the section OF the subway at this |
place was made by using pumps |
through holes bored at distant points,
bat with little success.
Within the city there is practically |
no means Of transportation except by |
cabs and tax1-cabs, the owners OF !
which charge fabulous prices. The |
steam Tamways. which were the only
surface lines remaining after the cleo
tric cars failed. were unable to move
today as the water had entered the
fire boxes.
Communication between the two
sides OF the river has heen suspended
owing TO the unsafe condition of the
bridges