Arizona republican., 1910-01-29
THE SEINE
 STATIONARY. The Long Prayed For Crest
 Announced This Morning ITS TRIBUTARIES FAlL|MG| Gay City Could Not Much
 Longer Have Withstood
 Encroaching Waters -| Measures of Relief inl Paris and Through World
ITS TRIBUTARIES FALLING

Paris. Jan. 2s.-The agonizing cry goes up from the people tonight: will the end never come?'
 After a slow but steady rise of the flood all day the officials al midnight could only issue statement in an swer saying that it was probable that the crest of the flood would reach here tomorrow. Tonight the city pre- sents weird spectacle. Soldiers. sailors. firemen and police are hastily constructing temporary walls by, the light of camp fires and torches in an endeavor to keep out the invading floods, while pickets patrol those sec tions of the city which are plunged in darkness
 The situation in the Place de EOpera is serious. The entire terri tory is roped off as unsafe. It is stat ed also that the new Equitable Life Assurance Society building is in dan- ger of a collapse.
 President Fallieres and Premier Briand today drove in automobiles through the flooded suburbs, where the distress is greatest. speaking words of comfort to the homeless, and encouraging soldiers and others en- gagged in salvage and rescue work
 Charitable organizations are co-op- erating with the authorities and are throwing open buildings and succor- ing the refugees Several convents and number of public buildings are equipped with military cots and bed ding and transformed into hospitals. The Red Cross society Is performing splendid service The number of refu- gees arriving is enormous. Charenton alone sending 3S.0Oo. who had got there from Calais and other points.
 Many thrilling rescues are recorded. The family of NJ. Barthou. former minister of public works. whose home in the Avenue D'Antun is surrounded. was taken out on the backs of sol diers and in boats. A large number Of schools are closed because of lack of heat and the municipality is con- sidering the advisabilty of closing all of them.
 Practically all the flooded suburban towns are without light and several are without water The inhabitants are hastily leaving. Parliament has voted a bill extending business notes for one month.
 Communication with England. Hol- land. Denmark. Austria and many cit- ies and towns in France is completely cut off The telephone service has been practically abandoned in Paris.
 New districts are being flooded constantly. and people are evacuatinG blocks of buildings. Several hospitals where the sick refugees were taken are in a dreadful plight, the, water having quenched the fires in the fur naces Forr hundred patients were hurriedly removed from the hospital Sal Petriere to the hospital Boucicault. Their rescue was dramatic and timely. The hospital is now isolated and a new rush of water threatens to level it.
 Thousands of Americans. especially artists and students in the Latin Quarter. are being bombarded by ca blegrams from anxious relatives The Associated Press is requested to an nounce that all Americans are safe.
 The French government is deeply touched by the expressions of sym pathy that have been received from abroad. Pope Plus transmitted se000 and Emperor Nicholas and the king of Belgium 5000 each.