The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-29

the Avenue D'Antin, is surrounded
were taken out on the backs OF sol
diers and rescued in boats
4 large number OF the schools ar
I closed because of the lack of heat. ant
the municipality is considering the ad
Visibility OF closing all OF them.
Practically all or the flooded subur.
ban towns above and below Paris to-
night arc without light. and several OF
them arc without water. Their inliao-
I itants arc hastily leaving.
The Chamber of Deputies held a sit
ting to-day in the water beleaguered
Palais Bourbon, believing that an ad-
1ournment or a transfer OF their ac-
tivities to Versailles, as had been sug-
sested, would only serve to increase
the popular panic, Parliament to-day
voted bill extending business notes
one month.
messages OF sympathy and offers of
assistance are pouring in upon the
government from individuals and So
eieties all over the world.
Touched by Sympathy.
The French government is deen,,,
touched by the expressions Of sympa.
thy that have been received from
abroad King Victor Emmanueland the
Atalian Cabinet have sent messages
OF coincidence and Pope Plus has trans.
United $4,000 to NIonsisnor Annette.
me Archbishop of Paris. for use anon.
me sufferers in his archdiocese. ,1n,.
peror Nicholas and the. Kin. of
siuin also have sent $4,000 each Tor
the poor OF Paris.
In addition public subscriptions b.
been opened in Belgium FOR tbe inaI
sufferers. 1t is difficult to present a |
meta, ,iishtal picture of the geographical I
limits of the submerged area of I,a.is
but. roughly speaking, 1t is estinateI
that the surface inundated from the
seine, which must not be confounded
with the overflow in the back streets
from bursted sewers and subterra mean
rivers. covers about nine square miles,
or one quarter OF the city.
Inc telegraph lines are down in every
direction, and communication with
England, Holland Denmark and Aus
tria. and. many of the cltiee and towns !
New districts are being, flooded con- t
s,antiy, and the people are cvacuating {
docks OF buildings. Several hospitals, /
"here sick and numbers of refugees
were taken. arc in a dreadful plight
owing TO the water having reached
1ncif cellars and quenched the fires IN
the furnaces
-Four hundred patients were hur
-ledly removed in ambulances from the
hospital dc la Salpetriere to the Hos.
ltai Boucicault. Their rescue was
1ralnatic and timely. The hospital al
,eady is isolated, and new rush OF
water threatened to level 1t.
AT this moment the tireless prefect /,
u police, M. Lepine. arrived and sent '
2ut score of policemen on bicvcIes | /
o summon ambulances and boats and (
audational police and soldiers.
Patients Saved. l
While some of the soldiers were lay. 7
ing nontoons others tenderly took out r
We patients, all OF them enveloped In a
lahkets. Two hundred of them were I
saved IN boats, while another 200 were .
, al.lea across the pontoons on the r.
backs of soldiers. :
Thousands of Americans in Paris. f
.speclaliy the artists and students in "
me Latin Quarter. are being BON I
parded with cablegrams from anxious =
relatives. The Associated Press has +
neen requested to announce that al '
americans are safe. A few of them ,
nave been obliged to leave their lodc.
!. SIS IN the lower part of the city, but
'he Lalin Quarter is high and safe.