Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-24
0NE-FOURTH OF
ALL FRANCE IS
SWEPT BY FLOODS
Unprecedented Condition Ter
rorizes Whole Country and
Suffering Follows.

CHALONS-SUR-SAONE, Jan. "a
dyke of Saone au Doubs broke this
afternoon, i%nundating ten villages. The
streets of Chalons are under water and
Two persons hav been drowned. Hun
dreds of persons are on the roofs of
their nearly submerged homes crying
Tor help. Boats are being used by res
cuing parties.
PARIS. Jam. PA fourth Of France,
1t is estimated, is under water today.
Snow and rain are adding to the floods.
which are unprecedented in the history
of h present generation.
The Seine continued to rise today and
TIL situation in this city grew worse
hourly. Water has drowned out the
electric plant in the chamber of depu-
ties and today the deputies met by
larnplight. Premier BRAND introduced
a bill appropriating s400. 900 for the re-
lief OF sufferers from the floods. He
described what the government was al
ready doing to abate the distress and
highly praised the heroic rescue work
done by the soldiers inc gendarmes.
Owing to the difficulty of getting food
into the city market prices have been
raised. adding another element of dis
tress TO the poorer classes. 1t is esti-
mated that %, 900 laborers have been
thrown out of their regular employ
ment.
Fortunately the casualties have been
comparatively few but frequent mar
row escapes from death are reported
The explosion of boilers in inundated
factories is an lenen of danger. An
enormous amount of livestock is re-
ported to ave been drowned in the
departments of Marine. Aube, Aisne
and Meuse.
1t is now believed that the Eiffel
tower, the foundations of which were
threatened by the waters, is no longer
in danger of ~collapsing. However, the
wireless station at the top of the tower
has beer abandoned temporarily. The
rivers Rhone and Loire are reported to
be falling and the situation according
ly improved at Lyons, Limoges, Troyes.
Annecy and Auxerre.
The property Damage cannot be es-
timated with any p%retense OF accuracy
but it will be very great.
A terrible tempest of rain N wind
which broke yer the city at daylight
only adds to the horror of the situa-
ton and to the suffering of the poor
mud bo,.o,o,s
Tha r;,Tar nroson+s a., sn;r;no
sraotao,a anarta, - ,,illion neo.
! pie, in a drenching rain, throng the
stone parapets and quays, watching
the yellow tide, which is crowded with
driftwood, win casks and other wreck
age, rushing seaward. The water is
almost flush with the arches of the
bridges. Firemen, police and troops
SIaal-aaas ras,,,tina CO.,
tha aaat;nn 5abris ana n 10 bo,ed tbat
Ill tha h,iaros ,,;u no sa,,od Tra fl
~ sauara, oe tha fra;Ia, res boweyer
1as hoa, stannad
rho streets around the Chamber of
nan,ties orc considerad uneafa and ALI
,raf3c in these uph res has been
f~orhidden h tunnel het ween tbo
o,ai D,Orsav and the Ouai D,A1ster-
it, stations is a rushing stream. The
basement of the Palais de Justice is
J fuIl Of water and the first floor of the
Central nolice station is ~untenabIe.
The martial ~crinnline of the water
supplv threatens the CAPITAL with a
wafer famine. The notice are making
81 hou~se-to-house canvass. notifying the
inhabitants to boil all water used for
drinking purposes and thereby avoid
the danger of a typhoid G idemic.
The surface and underground rail-
WAYS. which barely are sufficient under
normal conditions to cope with the
traffic, remain partially suspended,
although no worse today thar yester-
day. Railroad traffic, however, now is
utterly d~emoralized and completely sus-
pended to the southwark of Paris.
1t is impossible to estimate the prop
ertv loss as a result of the floods, but it
will run into millions of francs. .Tor-
tunately the loss of life has been small.
The authorities have Or
dered the projects and military COM
manders everywhere to aid in the res
ter for the relic of the suffering.