The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-25
FRENCH FLOOD
CROWS WORSE
Rains Continue and Rivers
Are Still Rising.
GREAT DAMAGE IN PARIS

Loss Already Placed at Six Million
Dollars and Every Inch Rise of the
Seine Adds Immensely to the Sum-.
One Hundred Thousand Persons
Homeless and Destitute in Eastern
and Southern France.
Paris, Jan. 25.-The weather is
warm and it Is still raining, causing a
continuation of the alarming rise of
the Seine, which is already at an un-
precedented height, threatening the
city with incalculable loss.
The Seine will likely flood the road
way of the famous Place de lie Con.
corde within few hours. ..-
The entire city is in danger of a
water famine Five ACCOMPLISHMENTS
are already without water, due to the
breaking of their water mains and the
contamination of the supply by sew
age. The suburb of Ivry, with 10000
inhabitants, is completely under water.
The basement of the Louvre, the
worlds greatest art palace, is flooded,
putting the heating plant out of com.
mission. Owing to the continued
dampness pictures and plaster casts
in the Louvre are being damaged and
the loss promises to be irreparable.
Unless some way is found imme.
diately of ventilating that part of the
subway that has not yet been flooded
the entire underground system will be
put out of commission. The vilest
odors permeate the subway, making
travel in it almost impossible. Refuse
from broken sewers has been swept
into the subway. s
The government is taking active
steps to prevent an epidemic of ty-
phoid, of which there is great danger.
While the situation in Paris is
alarming it is no more serious than in
the Eastern and Southern parts Of
France, where 100000 are homeless
and in destitute circumstances.
Loss in Paris Fully $e,ooo,ooo.
The loss in Paris alone is already
placed at $6,O00,000, with every inch
rise of the Seine adding thousands to
the loss. X
In the country districts the situation
amounts to a national disaster.
The river here presents an awe in.
spring spectacle A quarter of mil
lion people in a drenching rain throng
the stone parapets and quays, watch
ing the yellow tide, which is crowded
with driftWood, wine casks and other
wreckage, "ushing seaward. The wa.
ter is now almost flush with the arches
of the bridges. =,
Firemen, police and troops are work
ing like mad at all the bridges, Olsen
tangling blockades, resulting from the
floating debris, and it is hoped that
all the bridges will be saved. Traffic
on several of the Trailer ones, how
ever, has been stopped.
The streets around the chamber of
deputies are considered unsafe and all
traffic in these thoroughfares has been
forbidden. T.
The tunnel between the Quai dor
say and the Quai d'Austerlitz stations
is rushing stream.
The basement of the Palais de Jus.
tice is full of water and the first floor
of the Central police station is I'M
tenable.
A fourth of France, it is estimated,
n under water. Snow and rain are
adding to the floods, which are I'M
precedented in the history Of the pres
ent generation. The dyke at Saone
au Doubs broke, inundating ten vii
lagos. The streets of Chalons, are un-
der water and two persons have been
drowned. Hundreds of persons are
on the roofs of their nearly submerged
homes, crying for help. Boats are
being used by rescuing parties.
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