The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-25
TERRIFIC FLOODS
DEVASTATE FRANCE
Situation Becomes So Desperate
That Officials Of Government
Are Aroused.
MUCH OF GREAT CITY
OF PARIS IN DANGER
Estimate Made That 0ne-Fourth
of Whole Country Is Now
Under Water.

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:: PARIS, Jan o5.-At . o'clock =
= this morning the water which :.
: was rushing through the tunnel =
= under the Quai du Arsay station :.
= burst through the roadway and :.
= hooded the streets, including the :.
= Rue de Lillic, the Rue de =.
Portiers and the Rue de Bell =
e chasse. on which there arc many :.
= aristocratic residences The side. -
= walks are likely TO cave in at any =
houses were hastily awakened 4.
:: and hurriedly taken to places of =
: safety ::
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The situation resulting from the
floods is fast becoming desperate. The
premier and minister of the interior
made this declaration tonight. All
conditions indicated further rise of
several inches of the river Seine.
aud the cold rain, which still continues,
is causing intense suffering among
those who have been made homeless.
There is little prospect of relief.
Much of Paris in Danger.
NJ. Mileraud. minister of public
works. after a tour Of inspection, said
that If the rise continued nothing
could prevent a deplorable disaster and
the flooding of the most populous
quarters in Paris. Measures that had
been taken, he said, appeared 10 him
70 be adequate ''for the present, but
only for the present
Paris is threatened with an inn
mediate tie-up, The stoppage of trans
ports has raised prices of food,
which is becoming scarce, and the
supply of water in seven arrondisse-
ments has been crippled.
Authorities assert that drinking wa
ter is assured. but there is no water
for industrial services. which are prac-
tically suspended. The question of
more difficult, and most of The remain
ing lines of the subway were forced To
close down tonight because of lack Of
electric currents.
Red Gross Is Aiding.
The Red Cross society is organizing
aid for the sufferers. Subscriptions
have been opened, and theaters are ar
ranging benefits
At midnight the water was less than
foot from the arch of the Pont dc
l. Alma. Other bridges are not in such
danger, unless some other craft is
swept against them. Big sewers in the
Place du Havre and near Place de la
Madeleine burst tonight, threatening
foundations of houses.
Part of Rue St Lazare threatens TO
cave IN, and the whole street has been
closed Tunnels of the subway now
under construction are flooded. The
Orleans terminus is vast pool, and
engineers fear that the tunnels may
collapse,
Two thousand persons are homeless
at Alfortville, where the water is
twelve feet deep,
Thousands Suffering.
The salvage is being done by
soldiers in ,auto- boats at the risk Of
their lives All the factories above and
below Paris are closed. and thousands
of persons are ont of employment
AT Toars Sur Marine, however. eight
houses collapsed, and at .Iuvlgnv fifteen
collapsed. The authorities have de-
cidod TO blow up thc dam and allow
the canal to flow into the river TO save
other buildings. A hundred houses at
Chalons threaten to fall.
4 fourth of France, ii is estimated,
Is under water today, Snow and rain
arc adding TO the floods. which are un-
precedcnted in the history of the pres
cnt generation.
The Seine continued to rise today,
and the situation in this city grows
worse hourly. Water has drowned out
the electric plants in the chamber of
deputies and today the deputies met
by lamp light
Premier BRAND introduced a bill
100000 for the relief of
sufferers The bill was passed He
described what the government was III
ready doing to abate tho distress, and
highly praised the heroic rescue work
done by the soldiers and gendarmes,
Prices of Food Raised
Owing to the difficulty OF getting
been raised. adding another element of
distress TO the poorer classes. 1t is
estimated that $4,000 laborers have
Fortunately the casualties have
oeen comparatively few, but many mar
-ow escapes from death are reported.
The explosion of boilers in inundated
factories lis an occasional clement OF
langer.
An enormous amount of livestock is
eported TO have been drowned in the
departments of Marne, Aube, Aisue and
deuse.
II is now believed tho Eifrel tower,
he foundations of which were threat
ned by 1hc waters. is no longer IN
Ianger of collapse. However. the wire
css station at the top Of the tower has
'een abandoned temporarily.
Tho rivers Rhope and Loire are re-
Dorted falling. and tbe situation is ne
ordingly improved at Lyons, Limoges,
'roves Annecy and AuXerre,
The property damage cannot be es-
imated with any accuracy, but IL viii
c very great,
The sewer in the Place Havre has
aved in and The Avenue Montaigne has
cen invaded by the waters.
The schools in the inundated districts
ave been closed.