Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-25
Marvellous Underground Archi-
lecture Is Flooded and the
Streets Are Inundated.
DAMAGE is lNCALCULABLE.
Fifty Thousand Soldiers Placed Mt Dis
position Of Municipal Authorities
To Fight the Flood.

municipal authorities to fight the flood
whose ravages are spreading ruin and
CONSERVATION throughout the city.
AT o'clock this morning the water
at Pont Royal had touched &c feet
above low tide and was rising at the
rate of nearly half an inch an hour
with the prospect OF the rise contlnu-
ing until midnight
The damage already done Is incalcul-
able. The Industrial life of the city Is
rapidly becoming paralyzed. Only two
sections of the subway railway are in
operation while three -fourths of the
surface line are tied up. Factories
are shutting down because of the lack
of power due to the electric plants be-
ing flooded
Half OF the telephones In the city are
out of commission and railroad
communication is also demoralized
WATER UNDERGROUND.
The disaster locally is due chiefly to
the fact that the whole marvellous un-
derground architecture of the city.
which is honeycombed with labyrnths,
is filling up with water. causing tho
sewers to burst and the streets to cave
In, and threatening the foundations of
buildings.
The scene on the river front Is ma
1estic but appalling. The stream has
broken its barriers at several points
and Is pouring its yellow torrents into
the surrounding streets. converting
them into veritable lakes. At any
minute 1t may be necessary to blow up
the Alma bridge where the water Is but
a few inches from the keystone of the
arch, as dam there might turn the
course OF the Seine in such a way as
TO flood several of the most fashion
able sections of the city
tremendous explosion which
awakened the stricken city at S o'clock
led TO the report that the Alma bridge
had been blown up but the explosion
proved to have occurred in a chemical
FACTORY at Irvy-sur-Seine, eight miles
above 1t is presumed that the water
surrounding the factory came in con-
tact With the chemicals. Last night
the subway stations at the Orleans
terminus and at Qnal d. Orsay were
flooded and closed and the sinking of
the Rue de Potieres let the water
through foot and half deep into
the Rue de Lille and the Rue de T.
Unlversite. streets In which live
many of the old aristocracy. The
hospital also is inundated.
BITTER COLD AND RAIN.
At noon Paris was the center of an
area OF low pressure and bitter cold
and rain and sleet were falling
throughout the flooded regions. adding
to the suffering of the poor and home
less. The price OF bread and other
foodstuffs has increased owing to the
fact that communication with the
provinces Is crippled. No trains from
the south are coming beyond Choisy
lie Roi.
The depleted supply of drinking
water has caused the greatest alarm.
With the rise of the flood but a few
inches higher the pumping stations
still in operation must stop, and Paris.
in the midst of miniature ocean. will
be without water fit to drink.
The situation at 20 and 30 suburban
towns above this city is worse than In
the capital itself At Charenton,
where the swollen river Marine enters
tho Seine, an area of 200 square miles
has been flooded. The submerged dis
trict includes Alfortvilel and Ivry sur
Seine with total population of $4,000
At this point the soldiers and fircmen
are doing heroic work In rescuing
families in boats and pontoons At
Alfortville the cemetery has been
washed out and caskets. lifted from
their resting places, are floating down
stream.
From Autueil to st. Germain. the
lower portions OF all the riverside
towns are deep beneath the waters and
soldiers are forcing the residents to
evocuate their homes. The domestic
supply of water at several towns has
been cut off.
The animals of the geological gar
dens, which were In danger of drown
ing, have been removed to higher
grounds.
Relief Is being organized on a large
scale Appeals for funds issued by the
Red Cross and other societies are
meeting with generous responses. Ed
mond Rostand has offered to give the
receipts which are expected to be
enormous, from the first nights
EPIDEMIC FEARED.
Physicians fear an epidemic when
the flood subsidies as the overflowing
sewers are likely to contaminate the
water and rats driven out of
their underground homes are invad-
ing residences.
The report that the Eiffel tower should
be perpendicular when undisturbed is
II Is tAPldlueu the
tower was built with a water base and
each support supplied with a hydrau-
lie lifting apparatus which works au-
Before noon the police compelled the
evacuation of the Hotel d'Orsay near
the Quail d'Orsay and the surrounding
houses, The palace OF the Legion OF
Honor Is menaced and an accumula-
ton of driftwood above the isle of st.
Louis threatens to sweep away tho
barrier of piles and the Pont des Arts.
News from the provinces shows that
there is q general Improvement in the
food situation this afternoon except
in the east and at the affluents of the
Seine and Meuse.
WATERS LAPPING oUAYS.
Floods lap the quays at the Place de
la Concorde and the Cours Ia Refine.
communication in the south
OF France Is rapidly going to pieces.
Traffic between the Pont des Arts and
Pont Neuf Is suspended. The archway
Of the submerged tunnel between the
uual d'Orsay and the AuSterlitz sta
lions threatens to fall A three-story
building at the DUAL de Ia Rapec has
The River Yonne Is now falling, and
the authorities hope Its high mark has
been reached.
The rising water is rapidly getting
tho better of the pumps in the main
OF tho subway and but a