The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-01-28
PARIS FLOOD
SPREADS RUIN
$4,000 Soldiers Are Fighting
Rising Waters.
STREETS ARE CAVIEG IN

Industrial life O. French Capital Is
Rapidly Becoming Paralyzed-stree'
Cars Tied Up ana Factories Shutting
Down.
Paris. Jan. 20 FIFTY thousand sol
diors. comprising the garrison OF PARIS
were placed 20 the disposal OF the
municipal authorities TO help fight the
nood. which is spreading ruin and con
r,ernatiou throughout the city
The water az the Pont ROYAL has
touched twortysix feet above low tide
and is sun rising al the rate OF al
most half an inch an hour
The damage already done is meal
eulahle The Industrial life of the city
lie rapidly becoming paralyzed Only
two sections of the subway are IN OPP
GRAFTON while threetourths OF the sur
face lines are tied up. Factories are
shutting down because of lack OF pow
or due to the electric plants having
been Hooded. Half OF the telephones
W the city are out OF commission. ana
telegraph and railroad communication
Is almost shut down.
The disaster locally is due chieny
10 the fact that the whole marvellous
underground architecture OF the city
which is honeycombed with labyrinths,
IS filing mp with water. causing the
sewers to burst and the streets to cave
in and threatening the foundations OF
buildings.
The scene on the river front is ma
iestic but appalling The Seine has
broken its barriers at several points
end is pouring its yellow torrents into
the surrounding streets. converting
them into vertahle lakes. At any mo-
mont n may De necessary 10 blow up
the Alma bridge where the water Is
hut few inches from the keystone OF
the arch as a dam there might turn
the course OF the Seine in such a way
as 10 food several OF the most fash.
iOnable partitions of the city
During the night the subway sta
tions at the Orleans terminus and AT
Onai d'Orsay were flooded and closed.
and the sinking Of the Rue dc Poitiers
lef the water through a foot and a
half deep into the Rue de Lille and the
Rue de rUniversite. streets in which
live many of the old aristocracv. The
Vanguard district near the Boucicault
hospital also is inundated
The weather grows worse rather
than better. and at noon Paris was
the center OF an era Of low pressure
sud bitter cold Rain and sleet were
falling throughout the flooded regions,
adding 10 the suffering OF the poor
and homeless The price Of bread and
other foods increases owing TO the fact
that communication with the provinces
is crippled
The depleted supply OF drinking va.
fer has caused the greatest alarm.
with the rise of the food but a few
inches higher the pumping stations
still IN operation must stop. and Paris,
IN the midst Of miniature ocean. will
be without water AZ 10 drink.
The situation at between twenty and
thirty suburban towns above this city
is worse than in the capital itself AT
Charenton. where the swollen river
Marine enters the Seine an area OF
200 square miles has been flooded.
The submerged district includes AL
fortville and Ivry-Sur-Seine with to-
tai population Of 10000 At this point
the soldiers are fremen are doing he
roic work in rescuing families in boats
and pontoons At Alfortville the Gene
terry has been washed ont and caskets
lifted from their resting places are
floating down stream.
The animals OF the Geological Gar.
den. which we're in danger Of drown.
ing. have been removed to higher
ground
Physicians fear an epidemic when
The foods subside. as the Overfowing
sewers are likely 10 contaminate the
drinking supply Of water. and the rats
driven out of their underground homes
are invading residences.