Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-02-04
BATTLING AGAINST
THREE ENEMIES
PARIS AND FRANCE ARE FIGHT
ING PESTlLENcE, PlLLAGERS
AND STARVATION.
TROOPS SHOOT DOWN GHoALS
Seine River Is Gradually Falling,
While on the other Hand the
Water In the Sewers Con-
tinues to Rise.

Paris, France.-Paris and France
are engaged in battle against three
enemies-pestilence, pillagers and
starvation. AS the flood waters of the
Seine slowly recede the health situa-
tion becomes worse. Health officials
say that if orders for fumigation and
boiling of water are followed there
need be no fear of an epidemic.
While the health authorities are bus
lily engaged in issuing instructions to
safeguard citizens in the stricken dis
trict, the troops and police are shoot
ing down without mercy ghouls who
are looting the homes of the thou
sands forced out by the high water.
Public Protectors at Work.
Still another crowd of public pro-
tectors, including Red Cross agents,
priests, nuns and charitable workers,
are engaged in work Tor the assist
ance of the sufferers. They are dis
tributing food and water in the af-
fected districts and many have been
saved who otherwise would have
starved to death. The fall of the
Seine had a very noticeable effect in
several of the streets which are no
| longer navigable. On the other hand,
the rising of the water in the sewers
continues. There is a considerable
quantity of water now in the molding
chamber of the Louvre museum.
Hundreds are reported without food
or shelter. An army of troops and
civilians are working in the flooded
territory bringing succor to distressed.
Besides the aid distributed directly
by the government and the munich
pality, more than $250,OOO from the
fund raised by the newspapers has
been handed over to the various re-
lief societies. The press refers CRATE
fully to the spontaneous help coming
from abroad, and makes particular
mention of the evidences of sympathy
in the United States.
y Parts of Paris Under Water.
1t is difficult to present a mental
picture of the geographical limits of
the submerged area of Paris, but
roughly speaking, it is estimated that
the surface inundated from the Seine,
which must not be confounded with
the overflow in the back streets from
bursted sewers and subterranean
rivers, covers about nine square miles,
or one-quarter of the city.
Beginning above where the Seine
enters the Notifications every quay is
under water and practically the entire
eleventh reimbursement, the largest
in the city, is submerged, the flood
VT n frc nnly fp@r fl.Nn l.
and the Quai de la Rapec to the Place
de la Nation and the Place de la Bas-
tile. Just below, as far as the Place
du Chatelet, behind the Quai des
Celestins and the Quai Henry ",
water covers the old marsh to depth
of IL feet. The lower quarter of the
lie st. Louis and the lie de la Cite,
where Notre Dame is situated, and op-
posite are covered; the streets in front
of the Tuillieries gardens, the Louvre
and the Museum are completely i'm
mersed, and the same condition exists
in patches in the Place de la Concor-
di. Thence in rectangle bounded by
the river and the Avenue Champs
Elysses is sheet of water surround
ing the Grand and Petite palaces four
feet in depth.
Below the Trocadero the flood wild
ems until at Auteuil it reaches back
half mile. On the left bank of the
Seine the water is deeper in the
flood districts. Beginning above the
city it covers major portion of the
thirteenth reimbursement back as far
as the GObelin factory and thence, ex-
20
the Pantheon Is situated, it is bound
ed by st. Germain boulevard to a
point back of the Palais Bourbon.
This district Is called the old Latin
quarter and comprises the law courts,
the Institute des Beaux Art, the Ma
zarin palace. Science Publishing house.
Farther below the water surrounds
the foreign office and sweeps back
across the Esplande des Invalides
and from that district to the Champs
de Mars, where the Eiffel tower
stands. Transverse streets, like Bon
aparte. throughout this area are un-
der from two to five feet of water and
are only accessible by boats.
Below the Champs de Mars to the
Notifications, the Javel district Is sub
merged to the Rue Lecourbe, a dis
tance of nearly mile from the river,
the water in many places reaching to
the second stories of houses.
The water in the Bois de Bologne
Notifications reached the grand cas-.
cade and below the river is one-third
of mile wide over the entire plain
opposite the Palais Palaisaides.