The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-29


ic hotel Lambet and the famous
hotel Lauzon, adjoining. Both of
these houses were built in the 18th
century, the hotel Lauzon having
been purchased by the city ten years
ago and made over as museum of
art.
The Rue St. Lazare was inundated
throughout its extent. The roof of
the subway under the Place de
POpera fell in during the night.
The Isle of st. Louis is fast disap-
pearing beneath the waters and I'M
less conditions change soon will be
submerged.
The river Seine continued to rise
early today and lacked but a few
inches of attaining the greatest flood
maximum on record. This was in
1915 and when the country was with
out the modern barriers which are
designed to protect Paris and nearby
points in such emergencies.
WINDS SHIFT.
An unfortunate shift of the wind
from the north to the southwest. &C
companying barometer and heavy
rain, added a new thrill of horror to
the stricken city and surrounding
country this forenoon. Throughout
the night the condition in this city
and environs grew more serious.
The devastation has now penetrat.
ed the very heart of Paris, the gorg-
ing rivers and sewers underneath
literally blowing up the streets while
the area of the surface overlooked
by the waters of the Seine had been
doubled today. Twelve of the twenty.
five bridges over the river have been
closed and the quays on either side
from one end of the city to the other
are either inundated or have been
roped off as unsafe.
The Esplanades Invalides is a sheet
of water. The Turgid flood has crept
back almost to the Jardin du Luxem-
burg on its left bank and invaded the
Place de La Concorde, which was
closed and guarded by soldiers, and
the lower Champs Elysee on the right
bank. The Palais de Glace and the
other pleasure resorts and restaurants
are surrounded, even the Place de
pOpera at the core of the city threat
ening to sink into the subway be-
meath.
Cellars throughout the district from
that point to the St. Lazare station
comprising the Fauburg Montmartre
and the Rue Berger and the richer
section in the Rue de Provence, the
Rue Drouot and the Rue Chateau Don
are filed to the street level with
water from the overlooked subter-
ranean river.
From the Rue de la Grange, Batel-
iere only one street. the Rue de Ia
Roquete, is open into the submerged
eleventh reimbursement, or ward, ne
cessitating a threemile detour 10
reach the eleventh from the ninth ar
reimbursement.
PALACE EVACUATED.
The palace of the Legion of Honor
has been evacuated.
War would hardly have played such
havoc as the food. The City Of
Light" has become city Of slime.
The immense building of the ST
Lazare station threatens to fall and
if the situation there grows much
worse. Paris viii lose its last railroad
connection. which still operates di-
rcetly into the city.
Interruption of suburban traffic to-
day by the engulfing of the belt line
tracks at the Rue de COurcelles filled
the roads leading to the CITY with pc
destrians walking to work. There
were also long professions of refu-
gees, penniless and bent under tho
weight OF the few, possessions they
could save.
In the lower Champs Elysee a gan
ing chasm opened, engulfng two men