The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-28
HIGH WATER MARK REACHED IS THOUGHT BY OFFICIALS THAT WATERS OF SEINE WILL
 BEGIN TO REcEDE. Strict Rules Are Put Into Effect to Prevent the scourge of an Epi-
 demic-Think There Is
 Sufficient Water.
Strict Rules Are Put Into Effect to

Paris, Jan. 27.-Another day has passed but the inexorable yellow tide still creeps slowly higher, each inch of water widely extending the area Of destruction, desolation and ruin, Although the barometer is rising rap idly and bright sunshine today sue. ceeded the raging storms, feeling of consternation, bordering on panic. pre- vailed tonight, when the authorities, who yesterday promised the maximum of the flood for today, announced that this would not be reached until to- morrow.
 Official figures of the stage of the water are difficult to obtain and the city council at a storm session tonight charged NJ. Lepine, perfect of Paris, with withholding the true gravity of the situation.
 The prefeet defended his attitude by saying that he was governed by the necessity of not unduly alarming the people.
 In the meantime what Is happening is enough to strike terror to the heart of all. The very crust of the city seems ready to sink into the flooded subterranean labyrinth beneath. Ev- cry hour drains are bursting in new localities. causing more subsistence Of the streets, or building them up some times several feet above their normal level, while the overflow of surface water from the river is transforming the inundated districts into formid- able lakes and the streets into canals.
 In the Bercy quarter the water is six feet in the streets and the entire left bank of the Seine from above the islands to Auteuil, comprising the law court institute, the fashionable St Ger main district the foreign office, the chamber of deputies and the Champs De Mars is submerged In from one to ten feet of water Some of the deputies left the Palais Bourbon to- night in rowboats. others on the backs of attendants
 The walls of the Inyalides Station are crumbling and both that structure and the wing of the foreign office op. posite, are in danger of collapse. New ertiheless Mime. Pichon. wife of the foreign minister, held her regular re ception this evening. oil lamps and grate fires being employed. in the ab- sence of steam heat and electricity
 The streets surrounding the St. La zarre Station have sunk three feet and the situation is desperate. It Is also feared that the foundations of the two big neighboring department stores are being undermined.
 The overflow of the broken sewers into the flooded basements mena-es the health of the occupants and the smell of sewage is already permeating the buildings, but notwitbstanding this. the police tonight notified house holders, especially those of the wesl- thier class, who are using automobile engines for pumping purposes that they must exercise the greatest care as the removal of the water pressure would likely cause the foundations to sink or collapse
 Soldiers are working desperately by the aid of torches, iisentangling drift wood above the Solferino and Henry " bridges, while large forces of men are still engaged in construcf- ing dams to divert the course of the swiftly moving currents.
 There was further shut down Of electric light plants tonight, leaving the city in semi-darkness The renef work is proceeding bravely. none he ing refused food or shelter
 Archbishop Ameitt has ordered pub. lie prayers in all the churches and a collection taken mp for the victims.
 In spite of the cripple.i water supply the authorities say that the reservoirs