The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-29
DEVELOPMENT IN PARIS FLOOD SITUATION.

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 DEVELOPMENTS IN PARIS
 FLOOD SITUATION.
 Crest of flood reached 1 a. m.
 3f feet and inches, river now falling slowly.
 People hail deliverance with wild manifestations of joy.
 Starving people loot bread- shops; soldiers loath to arrest offenders.
 Condition of destitute and sick refugees still deplOrable, with relief furnished wholly inade- quate.
 Engineers order many sections cut of from waterworks, to re- Ileve pressure on mains.
 Piles of refuse burned to pre- vent epidemic of disease.
 Water still spreads in city; Palace de EOpera, St. LaZare, Mint, and City Hall being among latest places and sections attack
 ed.
 Conditions elsewhere improved.
 Residents in fashionable streets returning to their homes and paying visits in small boats.
 American Chamber of Com merce in Paris searching for it's assistant secretary, Mir. Smith.
 Government employees examin- ing weakening buildings.
 Additional loss of $50,O0O,OOO expected from cOllapsing build- ing and breaking sewers.
 King and Queen of England each sends S5,OOO for relief fund. Rouen, Jan. 29.-The Seine, after having struck Paris staggering blow has now begun on Rouen and threat ems enormous loss. The stage of the river is now 29 feet above the nor nal with the crest of the Paris stag yet to reach here. The wharves are submerged and all of the factorie: along the river front have been forced to shut down.
 Houses in the old quarters of the city are being rapidly emptied as the water threatens to flood this section Paris Jan. 29.-Paris has been say. ed-temporarily at least-but at a cost that staggers the mind in it's contem- plation-
 When the river Seine, the life ot Paris and almost it's death, was final ly brought to a halt this morning 1T it's devastating and record breaking climb, it had a damage in this city alone roughly estimated at OO,00O, ,O0t with the probability that future losses resulting from it's undermining of the city will add at least another $50, 000,- 900.
 It had sent mad racing streams through the 700 miles of Paris sub ways and tunnels, ripped and torn 5( miles of beautiful streets and boule- wards. cost two score of lives destroy. ed hundreds of buildings, and damag ed scores of the city's most historic and grandest edifices, rendered 20O,- 900 people practically homeless in Paris and it's environs, temporarily paralyz ed the manufacturing and commercial life of the capital driven Paris gay millions to distraction, and delivered a blow that will make the city writht for months to come.
 What has happened in Paris, ha: taken place only on a smaller scale in parts of Europe where such disaster has been wrought that 1910 is sure y of the blackest years the country ha: known.
 From 1 o'clock this morning to Il the Seine receded inches and all in dications point to a continuation o1 the subsistence.
 The crest of the flood registered al Pont Royal 31 feet and inches.
 Thousands of destitute crowd the irnprovised refuges. They are sick anC half famished and the resources of the city are so crippled that the authorities are making slow work in relieving their intense suffering.
 Other thousands are still Hooking tc the city and the problem of the future care of these unfortunates is one that will tax the government for months tc come.
 The calamity is so great that it is too big for Paris to deal with alone and relief measures and the work ot restoring the city will be the govern ment's task.
 Tie worst is over but it will be 2 month before the city has restored its lines of traffic, six months before its sewers and subwayS are repaired anC it's broken streets mended, a year be- fore the poor recover even partially from the blow and many years before the financial blight is forgotten.
 All estimates of damag ge are for loss
 
 of the engineers. who under the gov ernment's supervision, are to examine the buildings in the twelve square miles of flooded territory, may show i' problematical.
 The undermining of the city may prove to be so serious as to mean tht practical rebuilding of the devastated sections. This would entail a loss o- millions and make the catastrophe a! great as though an earthquake or ti dal-wave had swept the city.
 Paris is pra ctically under martia law Soldiers invade every section anG wherever danger is considered immi. nent. cavalrymen Or foot soldiers arc on guard to hold back the curious people. In time of war the scene could be scarcely more martial
 The government today decreed 2 days grace for all negotiable paper When those residents of Paris that still had beds to go to retired last night. it was with feeling of impend