Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-01-28
INDUSTRIAL
LIFE OF PARIS
PARAL YZED
RESIDENCES OF MANY OF OLD
ARIsTOCRACY SURROUNDED BY
MINIATURE OCEAN.
CEMETERY is WASHED OUT.
Caskets Are Lifted from Their Resting
Places and Float Down the
Flooded Seine.
sWARMS OF RATS INVADE HOMES.

PARIS, Jan. 25.-F'ifty thousand sol
diers, comprising the garrison of Paris,
were placed at the disposal Of the mu-
nicipal authorities this morning to fight
the food whose ravages are spreading
ruin and CONSERVATION throughout the
city.
At 8 o'clock the water at Pont Royal
had touched 26 feet above low tide and
was rising at the rate of nearly halt an
inch an hour, with the prospect OF the
rise continuing until midnight.
The damage already done is incalcu-
| liable The Industrial life of the city is
rapidly becoming paralyzed. Only two
sections of the subway are in operation,
| while three-fOurths of the surface lines
| are tied up. Factories are shutting down
because of the lack of power due to the
electric plants having been flooded. Half
OF the telephones in the city are out or
commission, and telegraph and railway
communication is denOralzed.
Many Sewers Burst
The disaster locally is due chiefly to
! the fact that the whole marvellous I'M
derground architecture of the city, which
is honeycombed with labyrinths, is filing
up with water, causing the sewers to
| burst and the streets to cave in and
! threatening the foundations of buildings.
! The scene on the river front is ma es
tic but appalling. The stream has brok-
Ell its barriers at several points and is
pouring its yellow torrents into the sur
rounding streets, converting them into
yeritable lakes. AT any minute it may be
necessary to blow up the Alma bridge.
where the water is but a few inches
from the keystone of the ARCH as a dam
there might turn the course of the Seine
in such a way as to flood several of the
most fashionable sections of the city.
During the night the subway stations
at the Orleans terminus and at Quai
d'Orsay were flooded and closed, and
the sinking of the Rue. de Potiers let
| the water through a foot and a half deep
into the Rue de Lille and the Rue
de L'Universite, streets i'll which live
many of the old aristOcracy. The Van
giard district near the Bouccicault hos
pitaI also is inundated.
Weather Grows Worse.
The weather grows worse rather than
better and at noon Paris was the cen
/ ter of an area of low pressure and bit
ter cold and rain sleet were falling
throughout the flooded regions, adding
to the suffering of the poor and home
| less ones The price of bread and other
food has increased, owing to the fact
that communication with the provinces
is crippled. No trains from the south
| are coming beyond Choisy- Le-Roi.
The depleted supply of drinking wa
| ter has caused the greatest alarm. With
the rise of the floor but few inches
higher, the pumping stations still in OPP
GRAFTON must stop and Paris, in the
midst of miniature ocean, will be with
out water fit to drink.
The situation at between twenty and
! thirty suburban towns above this city is
worse than in the capital itself. AT
! Marine enters the Seine. an area of 1000
| square miles has been flooded. The sub.
merged district includes Afortville and
| Ivry- SurSeine with total population OF
| $4,000 At this point the soldiers anG
! firemen are doing heroic work in resculng
! families in boats and pontoons. At Al,
fortville the cemetery has been washed
out and caskets lifted from their resting
| places are floating down stream.
| Relief is being organized on a large
scale. Appeals for funds issued by the
! Red Cross and other societies are meet
| ing with the most generous responses
| Edmond Rostand has offered to give the
receipts. which are expected to be enor'
| nous. from the first nights presentation
of his play, "Chanticleer."
Epidemic Is Feared
Physicians fear an epidemic when the
! flood subsidies as the overlooking sewers
! are likely to contamlnate the drinking
| supply Of water Furthermore, sWarmS
| of rats driven out of their underground
homes are invading residences. The re
port that the Eiffel tower should be per-
! nendicular when undisturbed is erro'
neous 1t is explained that the tower
was built with water base and each
support supplied with a hydraulic lift
| ing apparatus which works automatic,
I ally.
Before noon the police compelled the
evacuation of the Hotel Palais d'Orsay
near the Quai D'Orsay and the sur
rounding houses. The palace of the
| Legion of Honor is menaced, and an ac-
| emulation of driftwood above the isle
| of st. Louis threatens to sweep away
! the barrier of piles and the Pont des
| Arts.
News from the provinces shows that
there is a general Improvement in the
| flood situation this afternoon, except in
| the east and at the af1uents of the Seine
and Meuse.
| A boat load of life savers was caught
| in the mad current of the river Marine
! and all were drowned. The Renault
| factory below Paris has been abandoned.
| throwing 2500 men out of work.
Several aeroplane shops on the banks
! of the Seine where machines were being
| built for use at the meeting at Helipolis,
| Egypt, have been destroyed.