New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
PARIS FLOOD RISES
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household belongings The conditions
were appalling. and the President and
Premier fastened away to seek means of
relief for the suffering people.
Floods have now broken out in the
south. the rivers Gers, Charente Adour
and Dordogne having overf1owed their
banks. Fierce storms are raging along
the coast, filling the ports with shipping
in distress
At Conf1ans fourteen houses have
collapsed. The Aube Canal has burst.
flooding Saint Just and several other
villages.
RIVERS GEAT HEIGHT
Fifty thousand soldiers, comprising the
garrison Of Paris, were placed at the dis
position of the municipal authorities
yesterday morning to fight the food and
render aid.
The water at Pont Royal had touched
twenty-six feet above low tide at
o'clock yesterday morning, and was ris-
ing at the rate of nearly half an inch an
hour, with the prospect OF the rise con-
tinuing until midnight
The industrial life of the city is rap
idly becoming paralyzed. Factories are
shutting down because of the lack of
power, due to the electric plants having
been flooded.
The disaster locally is due chiefly to
the fact that the whole marvellous
underground architecture of the citv
which is honeycombed with Iabyrinths.
is filling up with water, causing the
sewers to burst, the streets to cave in
and threatening the foundations of bui1d-
ings.
The scene on the riverfront is msies-
tic, but appalling. The stream. rising
like mad beast, has broken its barriers
at several points and is pouring its vel
low torrents into the surrounding streets
converting them into verttable lakes.
During Monday night the subway sta
tions at the Orleans terminus and ar
Quai dOrsay were flooded and closed
and the sinking of the Rue de Poitiers
let the water through a foot and a half
deep into the Rue de Lille and the Rua
de FUniversite, streets in which live
many of the old aristocracy. The Vau-
gtrard district near the Boucicault Hos
pltal IS also inundated
GREAT ARE FLOODED
. Ihe weather grows worse rather than
better A bitterly cold storm of rain
and sleet was falling throughout the
Hooded regions. adding intensely to the
suffering Of the poor and homeless.
The price of bread and other food has
also increased owing to the fact that
communication with the provinces is
crippled. The depleted supply of drink
ing water has caused the greatest
alarm. With the rise of the food but
a few inches higher the pumping
stations, still in operation. must stou.
and Paris, in the midst of miniature
ocean, will be without water fit to drink
The situation at between twenty and
thirty suburban towns above this CITY is
worse than in the capital itself AT
Charenton, where the swollen river
Marno enters the Seine, an area of two
hundred square miles has been flooded.
From Auteuil to ST Germain the lower
portions of all the riverside towns are
deep beneath the waters. and soldiers are
forcing the residents to evacuate their
homes The water supply at several
towns has been cut off
Physicians fear an epidemic when the
foods subside, as the OVERLOOKING sewers
are likely TO contaminate the drinking
supply of water, and rats driven ont of
their underground homes, are invading
residences The report that the F,irfel
Tower should be perpendicular when nm
disturbed is erroneous. 1t is exn1ained
that the tower was built with a vra+ar
base, and each support supplied with
hydraulic lifting apparatus which works
automatically
Before noon yesterday the police COM
PEELED the evacuation Of the Hotel PaIais
d'Orsay, near the Quai d'Orsay. and the
surrounding houses The Palace of the
Legion dHonneur is menaced and an
accumulation of driftwood above the Isle
of st. Louis threatens to sweep away the
barrier Of piles and the Pont des Arts
Traffic between the Pont des Arts and
Pont Neuf is suspended The archvav
of the submerged tunnel between tho
Qual d'Orsay and the Austerlitz stations
threatens TO fall. A three story buildine
on the DUAL de la Rapee COLLAPSED YES
terday afternoon.
The electricity failed at the residence
of the United States Ambassador. Rob
ert Bacon, on Monday night, and the
family was obliged to depend upon can
dies.
A boatload of lifesavers were caught
In the mad current of the River Marine
and all were drowned. The RenauIt far
tory, below Paris. has been abandoned.
throwing $500 men out of work.
Several aeroplane shops on the banks
of the Seine. where machines were beinq
built for use atthe meeting at Heliopolis
Egypt have been destroyed The upper
waters Of the Loire were rising rapidly
yesterday. threatening new disa ster
GALE CHECKS THE LUSITANIA