Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-01-29
PARIS FLOOD NOW
ABATING; FIGHT TO
PREVENT DISEA Sc
Nine Miles Of the City Is
Submerged Many Build
ings Must be Codemned.
ONE AMERICAN Is
AMONG THE MISSING

Special 0y United Press Wire.
Paris, Jan. 29:-At 10 O'Clock
this morning the Seine had fallen
three inches from it's crest flood
reached at l o'clock this morning
and was falling steadily The tenn
perature is 32 and the sun is shining
brightly. Every house found i'm
paired will be ordered vacated and it
is believed the condemnation of hun
dreds of buildings is inevitable.
Disease prevention is the impera-
tive need of the hour. The govern
ment today issued orders for the i'm
mediate burning of refuge accumu-
lated In various parts of the city.
Notwithstanding the threatened
destruction Of Paris has been avert
ed, new areas are being added to
the flooded section today by the un-
dermining of streets from broken
sewers and subways. This danger
will probably continue for several
days. Engineers may order the dis
tricts endangered cut off from the
water works so as to decrease the
pressure on weakened mains.
Search for American.
Assistant Secretary Smith, of the
American Chamber of Commerce in
Paris, has not been heard from for
two days, and motorboats were today
dispatched to his home in Auteuil.
Auteuil is among the heaviest suffer-
ers from the flood and is practically
isolated.
The police of Charenton, a suburb,
today killed a score of dogs driven
mad through hunger. Owing to the
crippling of the gas and electric
plants and the great demand for
petroleum, dealers have advanced
the price of oil to seventy cents a
gallon. Despite the picture of desc
lation from the five days food, all
Paris is wildly joyful today and the
city is already planning to avoid
future danger from the Seine. The
most popular plan advanced is to
provide an overflow canal skirting
the city in the shape of horseshoe.
The total loss in Paris is now es-
timated at $500, 100000 and an ad-
ditional loss of $50, 100000 is ex-
pected to result from cave-ins and
the wrecking by authorities of un-
safe buildings.
Work of Relief Being Pushed.
With the subsistence of the waters
the work of relief and rescue is being
pushed with renewed vigor. Thousands
of soldiers, sailors and gendarmes are
working ilsessantly In boats and 9th
erwise, bringing women and children
from the flooded districts and carrying
food to the hungry and the sick.
e
The inundation covers about nine
square miles, or one-quarter of the
city. Every quay is under water and
practically the entire Eleventh arron-
dissement, the largest In the city. The
food extends back from the Quai de
Bercy and the Quai de la Rapee to the
Place de la Nation and the Place de la
Bastie. Just below, as far as the
Place du Chatelet, behind the Quai
des Celestins and the Quai Henry ",
water covers the old marsh to a depth
of twelve feet.
TuiIeries Gardens Submerged.
The lower quarters of the lie st.
Louis and the lie de la Cite are sub
merged. So are the streets in front of
the Tuileries gardens, the Louvre and
the museum and part of the Place de
Ia Concorde. Thence, in rectangle
bounded by the river and the Avenue
Champs Kysees, the water stands
four feet deep around the Grand and
Petit palaces. Below the Trocadero
the flood widens until at Auteuil it
reaches back half a mile.
On the left bank of the Seine, begin
ming above the city, the water covers
a portion of the Thirteenth arrondisse-
ment back as far as the Gobelin fac
tory, and thence. except for Ste. Gene
We've hill, ON which the Pantheon is
situated, it is bounded by st. German
boulevard to a point back of the Pa
lais Bourbon. This district is called
the old Latin quarter and comprises
the law courts. the Institute des Beaux
Arts. the Mazarin palace and scientific
publishing houses.
Foreign Office Surrounded.
Farther below the water surrounds
the foreign Office and sweeps back
across the Espfnade des Invalides
shd from that district to the Champs
de Mars, where the Eiffel tower
stands. Transverse streets, like Bona
parte, throughout this area are under
from two to-five feet Of water and are
accessible only by boats.
Below the Champs de Mars 10 the
Notifications the Javel district is sub
hn
distance of nearly mile from the
river, in many places the water reach
ing to the second stories.
The water in the Bois de Boulogne
fortification reaches the Grand cas-
cade, and below the river is one-third
of mile wide over the entire plain
opposite the Palisades.
The Palais of the Legion of Honor
has been evacuated, and twelve of the
Seine bridges are closed to traffic.
Streets Still Gazing In.
Streets iu the lower part of the city
continue to cave In and let through
the water, which has probably been
burrowing under them for days. The
Place de rOpera has been roped off as
unsafe, the subway beneath 1t having
collapsed from the pressure of water.
The sidewalk in front of the New
York Equitable Life Assurance sOci-
ety's building has caved in, as has the
sidewalk Of the Quai des Grandes Au-
gustins in the old QUARTER Latin Fur
ther destruction of pavements is re-
ported from the Rue de Tournon.
M. Barthou, minister of justice, and
family have been driven from their