The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-28
BY Associated Press.

fdTlS, Jan. Zi.-AnOJHeT Qdy mas
passed and the flood still creeps
higher, each inch of water widely ex
tending the area of destruction, deso-
lation and ruin. Although sunshine
today succeeded the raging storms,
feeling tof CONSERVATION, bordering on
a panic, prevails tonight, and the
authorities who yesterday promised
the maximum of the food today an
nounced this will not be reached until
tomorrow. The very crust of the city
seems ready to sink into the flooded
subterranean labyrinth beneath. Every
hour drains are bursting in new locali-
ties, causing subsistence OF streets or
bulging them up sometimes several
feet above normal level, while many
streets are transformed into canals.
PERCY QUARTER UNDER WATER,
In the Percy quarter the water is six
feet deep and the entire left bank of
the Seine, comprising the law insti-
tute, the fashionable street, the Ger
man district foreign office, chamber OF
deputies and Champs Demars are SUBJ
merged in from one to ten feet of wa
Ier. Some of the deputies left the
Balais Bourbon tonight in rowboats.
There was further shutdown of
Electric light plants tonight and the
city is in semi-darkness. Relief work
Is proceeding bravely and no one is
being refused food or shelter. In the
Inundated districts many celebrated
buildings are in danger OF collapse,
being undermined by water
The situation below Paris is mucn
worse. Eight cities and towns are
engulfed, while the swollen Oise is
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toise section. Dispatches from the
provinces, however, report the. situa-
tion in some points is improving.
EXCEEDS ALL RECORDS.
The stage Of the waters this morn
ing exceeded all records back to 1913
and up to IL o'clock the river con-
tinued to rise at the rate Of 3-4 inch
an hour.
Hope was given to the local authori-
ties by an early report that the Seine
was Stationary at its upper reaches.
At Melun, Nogent and ray the maxi
mum flood was reached during the
night. On the other hand the river
Marine was reported as still rising and
a new and higher flood was racing
down the Yonne and the Grand NORM.
Perhaps the most alarming feature
OF the situation in the morning was
the fissure at the Autueil viaduct at
the foot of Paris. Should his give way
It would act as a dam and submerge
the entire city.
The valley of the Seine now pre-
sents a terrifying spectacle. The flood
is miles wide for twenty-five miles
above, and the raging torrent runs
through the city at the rate of 25
miles an hour. 1t is flush with the
parapets at the bridges where it is not
actually overfiowing them, turning
streets into muddy lagoons and chok-
Ing underground workings to the burst
Ing point. There are 700 miles OF
sewers and two rivers, the Bievre and
the Grange Botel Betliere, under Paris
The latter is running under the opera
house. whose confining walls are sub
Iected to the pressure of thousands OF
cubic yards of water. Wherever a
break in masonry occurs, the streets
cave in and the water and refuse
emerge. Thus dozens of places a
mile back from the river streets are
flooded and the walls of adjoining
buildings have been rendered unsafe
In many instances the police have
forced tenants to abandon their threat
ened homes.
A BELEAGUERED CITY,
Paris today resembled beleaguered
city. The military commander in each
of the FIVE sections into which the me.
tropolis has been divided holds his sol
dlers in constant readiness for dis
patch TO points of danger. The gov
eminent OF the municipality has
placed the military barracks and pub
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