The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
HORROR GROWS.
Tempest of Wind and Rain
Breaks Over Paris.
Adding to Suffering of the PeO-
pie Without Shelter.
SEINE is THE HIGHEST
1t Has Been Since 1902 and
Near the Record Point.
One-FOurth of France Reported
Under Water.

- 10 OSSAIlAdISQp Is unQeT WdLeI loudS"
Snow and RAIN are adding to the floods
which are unprecedented in the his
tory of the present generation. The
Seine continued to rise today and the
situation in this city grows worse
hourly. Water has drowned out the
electric plant in the chamber of depu-
tes and today the deputies met by
lamp light. Premier BRAND intro
duced bill appropriating 100000
for the relief of sufferers The bill
was passed. He described what the
government was already doing to
abate the distress and highly praised
the heroic rescue work done by the
soldiers and gendarmes.
Owing to the difficulty of getting
1000 INTO the city, market prices have
of distress to the poorer classes. 1t is
estimated that $4,000 Iaborers have
been thrown out of employment.
Fortunately the casualties have
been comparatively few, but frequent
narrow escapes from death are re-
ported. The explosion of boilers in
inundated factories is an occasional
element of danger. An enormous
amount of live stock is reported to
have been drowned in the departments
of Marine, Aube. Aisnc and Meuse. 1t
is now believed the Eiffel tower, the
foundations of which were threatened
by the waters, is no longer in danger of
collapse. However, the wireless sta
tion at the top of the tower has been
abandoned temporarily.
The rivers Rhone and Loire are re-
ported to be falling and the situation
accordingly improved at Lyons, Lii
moges. Troyes. Annecy and Auxerre.
The property damage can not be
estimated with any accuracy but it will
be very great. Late this afternoon
President Fallieres an6 Premier Bry-
and made" tour of the flooded dis
tricts. The crest of the flood had
arches of Pont Alma Preparations
were made to blow UP the span with
dynamite if it should become neces-
sary. The sewer in the Place Havre
has been invaded by the waters. The
schools in the inundated suburbs have
been closed.
The trains in the subway are being
sent out only from the stations at ST.
Lazare and The Invalides. The lower
stretches of the road have been aban-
doned. In the submerged districts
women fed from their homes with
their children in their arms.
Two thousand homeless persons have
arrived in Paris, seeking shelter.
The courts suspended their SittingS
today because of a lack of heat in their
rooms, but The chamber of deputies
continued in session. At the same
get the water out of the cellars of the
building
Highest Since 1902.
Paris, Jan. 24.-The flood situation
in Paris reached more critical stage
this morning. The Seine has risen
river now registers 1853 meters, at
Pont Royal. This is the highest the
river has been since 1902. when it
reache ed $50 metres, the highest point
recorded in the history of France ex-
cept in the year 1915.
A terrible tempest of rain and wind
which broke over the city at daylight
only adds to the horror of the situa-
ton and to the suffering of the poor
and homeless. Although the waters
of the Siene affluents above the city
still are rising rapidly, the munich
pal authorities were hopeful this
morning that the maximum stage of
the waters will be reached by night
fall. The river presents an awe in
spring spectacle. quarter million
of people in a drenching rain throng
the stone parapets and quays watch
ing the yellow tide which is crowded
with driftwood, wine casks and other
wreckage, rushing seaward. The
water is now almost flush with the
arches of the bridges. Firemen, po-
lice and troops are working like mad
at all the bridges disentangling block
AIDES resulting from the floating debris
and it is hoped that all the bridges
will be saved. Traffic on several frail-
er ones however, has been stopped.
Cellars Full of Water.
All of the cellars along the quays
are filled with water. One of the
chief dangers is in the weakening of
foundations of the buildings along the
water front by the seeping waters.
flee are surrounded by water, and the
beautiful garden in the rear of the
building is a veritable lake.
The streets around the chamber of
deputies are considered unsafe and
all traffic in these thoroughfares has
been forbidden.
The tunnel between the Quay
D'Orsay and the Quay D'Austerlitz
stations is a rushing stream. The
basement of the Palais De Justice is
full of water and the first floor of the
central police station is untenable.
The partial crippling of the water
supply threatens the capital with a
water famine. The police are MAX
ing house to house canvass notify
ing the inhabitants to boil all water
used for drinking purposes and there
by avoid the danger of a typhoid epi-
demic.
The surface and underground rail-
ways which barely are sufficient I'M
der normal conditions to cope with
the traffic, remain partially suspend
ed. although no worse today than yes
terday. Railway traffic however. now
is utterly demoralized and completely
suspended to the southwark of Paris.
The situation at several places up
and down the river is deplorable. The
lower quarters of all the towns on the
river below Paris are under water
the streets of Autuil resembling those
of Venice. A dyke near st. Germain
broke today, flooding the valley as
| far as Malmaison. The lower portion
of Bois De Boulogne is a blanket of
water reaching to Bagatelle. Judging
from reports received today from the