The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29
PARIS is SCENE
OF WRECKED AND
RUINED HOUSES
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The danger also is augmented by the diff
ficulty of transporting the paper to Paris.
The water is inflltering the cellars of
the Central Telegraph building in the
Rue De Grenelie. The water is II feet
deep in the engine room and many cables
have been submerged and paralyzed.
The prices of necessar1es are advancing
by leaps and bounds.
Within the city there is practically no
means of transportation except by cabs
and taxi-automobiles, the owners of which
charge fabulous prices. The steam tram
ways the last surface lines remaining in
operation, were unable to move today as
the water had entered the engine boxes.
Communication by omnibus and automo-
bile busses between the two sides of the
river has been suspended owing to I'M
safe bridges.
Refugees Foc<ing In.
The numbers of the refugees arriving
here is enormous, Clarendon alone send
ing in $1,000 who had come there from
Calais and other affected points.
Many thrilling rescues are reported.
The family of M. Barthou, former min
lister of public works, whose home in
the Avenue DAntin is surrounded.
were taken out on the backs of soldiers
ana rescued IN boats.
A large number of schools are closed
because Of lack of heat and the NUM-
cpality is considering the advisability
of closing all of them.
Practically all of the flooded suburb
an towns above and below Paris to-
night are with out light and several
of them are without water. Their in
habitants are hastily leaving
The chamber of deputies held meet
ing in the wa err beleagured Palais
Bourbon, believing that an adjourn
lnent or a transfer of their activities
10 Versailles as had been suggested,
would only serve to increase the popu-
lar panic. Parliament today voted a
bill extending every aid to the suf-
ferers and requested the projects of
the precinct police stations to double
their quota of men.
Waters Still Rising.
The boiling waters of the Seine were
still rising at noon today at the rate
of an inch and a quarter an hour.
There was steady downpour of rain
and the temperature was falling.
Everywhere the situation was appre-
Gladly worse than yesterday.
The prospect was cherries. A heavy
rain and a brisk breeze out of the
north arrived to drive the floods to
points winch heretofore mad eScS pea
its invasion.
During the night there was little =
couragement and with the early ho-
of today came a decided change for >
worse.
Fortunately the temperature moder-
ated today and in some measure the
suffering of the homeless ones was allie
waited. Messages of sympathy from
the outside, many of them accom-
panied with substantial financial con-
tributions, were another feature that
aOcted cause for thanksgiving. Tele-
graphic communication with the out
side was extremely defective today and
at times wholly interrupted. There is
no direct communication between this
city and England and messages for
central Europe generally were diverted
through indirect routes. 1t was feared
this morning that it might be impossi-
BILE after a little to transmit any great
amount OF press matter with which the