The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-27
More Than 100000 People in
France Are Homeless and
In Paris $4,000 Without
Temporary Homes.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY TODAY
AS RESULT OF ONE BUILDING
FALLING IN CAPITAL A WALL
OF WATER UNLoosED, TAKING
ALL BEFORE IT.

(American News Service)
Paris, Jan. 27.-Paris is in the
throes of a reign of terror. The flood
calamity grows in horror hourly.
buildings are collapsing, the Seine Is
ing duplicated, and despair has swept
the terror stricken millions. Thirty
trousand troops were rushed from the
Provinces today to aid the WOrn-Out
heroes who have been battling against
the impacable river. From the starv-
ing provinces half million peasants
have flOcked to the metropolis, add
ing to the seriousness of the situation.
There is not food enough to supply
one-third of those within the city 1im-
it's and stricken Paris has been COM
PEELED to ask aid from the world.
Worse Than Frisco Fire.
Americans can form an idea of the
damage already done by the fact that
the total is greater today than the
loss in the San Francisco fire.
With the Seine river. higher than
ever in history, still rising, snow and
rain were falling; the cold was in
tense: the tributaries of the rivers
were higher: there was no sign that
the hoped for would come today.
In the Provinces hundreds of lives
have been lost; in the city scores.
More than 250.000 persons are home
less in France; $4,000 in Paris have
been unable to find temporary re-
fuge.
AS result of the walls of the Quai
D'Orsay collapsing this morning, a
wall of water was turned loose in one
Of the most populous quarters of the
city, sweeping all before it with the
force of a broken dam. In darkness,
the panic stricken inhabitants fled
AS best they could. A patrol, quick
ly established. saved many, but sew
eral are believed to have been drown
ed.
Fight to Save Louvre.
All night long a thousand men bat
tied to save the Louvre and it's price
less art treasures. while water rose
relentlessly. Before dawn it had be-
come apparent that only a cessation
of the rise could save the famous gal
leries from heavy damage.
The sharp explosions of bursting
sewers or collapsing subways shook
whole quarters and spread panic to-
day. The collapse of the D'Orsay rail-
road station walls early this morn
ing was followed within a short time
by the caving in OF the Bercy sub.
way station. Several persons are miss
ing.
city proper end the suburbs is now
the site of camp of refugees. Mont
Martre-rising to height of 400 feet,
the highest point in the city--and
Belleville, $50 feet at it's greatest
height, are the centers of the refugee
camps on the North of the river
On the south. Montague ST Gene.
vieve's streets are clogged with tents
and every house harbors the desti
tute.
Packed With Refugees.
The Circlat Of hills outside the city
st. Cloud, Maudon. Villejuif, Mont
Valerien-are packed with shiverins
masses who clamor for food and fuel
and beseech the soldiers and police
for relief.
Not one of the twenty-eight bridges
across the Seine today could be de
clared immune from the danger Of be
ing blown up to prevent the forma
ton of dams that would add to the
horrors. At each army engineers ant
cappers stood guard. with mines plant
ed, ready to blow up arches and flot
sam at once.
Even the historic Notre Dame Ca
thedral. which has withstood the
floods Of centuries, today was source
Of anxiety.
The water was almost overlapping
the Quays beside it at dawn. Nevel
has the ancient cathedral looked dowl
on Paris in such a plight. The inun
dations of 1918. Of 1902 and of 1876
horrors all-have been outdone.
It would take Victor Hugo to de
scribe the mighty fight of man agains
the steady encroachments of the wat
er. Police and soldiers. exhausted b.
incessant struggling, today were rein
forced by organized bodies of citizens
At score Of points thousands of mel
labored to throw up dykes.