Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-27
DEATH ROLL GROWS
AT fRI6hTFUL RATE
Damage Placed at 5000, ooo,o and
Each Hour Adds Millions More
Half Of City in Total Darkness and
Oil Famine ic Threatened-Wate
Expected to Reacr 80 Feet Today.
(By Associated Press.)

PARIS, Jan. % he SHOW SUI III
has ceased and the weather is mod
Grating. but the Seine is still rising
and Paris. like a doomed city, is mold
ing it's breath in terror. Half the
city is in darkness. la the gloom,
gailor ing orderlies are bearing IN
s,ructicns which can no longer ce
sent by telephone. The army Of po-
Ice, firemea and soldiers give the
appearance Of a city lighting fer Its
lie.
Every minute brings graver dan
gers. New areas are being inun-
dated, quays are colIapsing. yawn-
ing chasms appear il the streets. The
water OF the Seine ias invaded the
e.cire la yrinth CT underground Paris.
IL threatens ruin and destruction
everywhere.
Dangers increase.
WHAT new disaster viii come 10 the
water-logged city before the Seine be-
gins 10 fall, nc one can predict.
Already the damage is officially es-
rimated 1t s200.O00,000. and every
44tO4 - lac N<>>et,s
;ropfe promises to exceed the limits
OF a national disaster and become In
ternaticnal The death roll also is
growing at a frightful rate. and when
the epidemic, which now appears me
vitible, breaks cut it will run into
thocsands Already scarlet fever mas
appeared among the refugees at lvry.
Among the sGperstitious there Is
talk o. the destruction o. Paris as
result q the appearance of Halleys
comet
Authorities are bending their ener-
gle, to the rescue OF the imprisoned
and the succor OF the homeless.
The public subscription opened by
the newspapers. have reached nearly
100000. while the Red Cross and 9TH
or relief societies have gone nobly 10
work
Buildings Threatened.
The extent of the foods in Paris
NAV be judged by the fact that about
half the length of the quays within
the city are under water, which Is
p-uriEg into the streets and thou
sands of laborers and soldiers are
working like mad men to build &C.
mont walls TO hold back the current
The foundation Offices, Hotel Paials
d'Orsay. have been aban6c ned as the
cellars are fun of water.
The Centennial Hotel and many
residences in the aristccTatic quar-
tiers are rapidly ceing evacuated
There is ten feet of water in the sub
way station in front of the Care St
azaTe and the sinking q the square
threatens to carry down the adjacent
buildings
As the result Of conference. par
lament will be asked to authorize an
extension Of time for commercial pa
per. because Of the general discrgani-
ton IT business.
BESIDES the failure of the gas and
electric lighting plants. Paris is con-
frcufed with an oil famine. Scores or
oil bargcs from R-uen are tied up N
the Seine and the great derOts Of dis
n button in the outskiit~ OF Paris
are flooded. The oil refineries a.
Roucn are endangered. ~'hf situation
in the provinces is no better Than m
the city. as they are supplied With
oil frosn Paris.
AZ ofisisi bElie'iu tOnignf staie1
insi the wat.r M Ponf ROYAL viii
leach ~ rhiris foot mark tomorrow
morning.
The prospect or 'he immediate "a
irrc Is egav-. o. h IS esiimated tnat
lhf Se'ue tolight and tcmorr-w Wiii
rise frcm 2 ro . sect
Moreover. 10 DBL feared that the nigh
tide. which is ecrfiuk in. vii acgra-
Fsie ih. s'frsiiou. po-.rirg 20 an add
f.1nal volume rf water and adding
.ir0nE rres .re in ftaf which b. a.
-esd invading tnc cify uader ground
Reports received here from Eonen
sa.s ftaf ihe quay. srd feeds many
r.irs are Buder wafer iiait tre ioFu
lf Piaisancr u fte tcnarfuenf n
Ger. - submerged ard tmireds 81
rei1zrf- arf Eati1z their raF 10
pa-is. Extensive fo-d. have occurred