The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-28
DESOLATI0N, RUIN,
IN CITY OF PARIS
Waters Continue to Rise and
Vast Population Is Panic
Stricken by Disaster.
UNDERGROUND DWELLINGS
ARE COMPLETELY FLOODED
Many Streets Transformed Into
Canals; Crust of City Is
Sinking.

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PARIS, Jan. 2S.--Flood conditions
had become much worse at . o'clock
TINS morning. particularly in the soufh
and east sections. In the old Latin
quarter the situation was critical,
The sidewalk Of the Quai des Grandes
Augustine collapsed and fell into fbe
orleans company's tunnel beneath, fur.
ther extending the food through the
anclent streets. particularly the Rue
Jacob and around the Institute of
! France.
Many sewers burst in the twelfth
4IirondISSement, one of the biggest in
| P2rls. the whole of which is now sinh
merged, and has been plunged into
darkness on account OF the breaking Of
the gas mains
The half buried lie st. Louis, which
is connected with the lie de la Cite
Dy means of the Ponte ST. Louis, is
likely TO be totally submerged within
Iew nours, as the water is now only
rev inches from the parapct.
Men were summoned at late hour
and are working desperately to erect a
| Wall 10 save the historic Hotel Lam.
pert, erected in the seventeenth cen
! tury, and now the residence of Prince
E2artoryskl. and the equally famous
iiotel Lauzun, adjoining, purchased by
the city in 1900, 10 be used rs nru
scum of arts. 1t also was built in the
seventeenth century.
At o:50 clock tho water forced
ITS way up through the subway work
ings IN the Rue ST, Lazare, which IS
inundated the whole OF its length. In
| several places ihe sidewalk fell In The
subway under the Palace de In Onera
has collapsed, and the sidewalk in front
OF The New York Equitable Society's s
building has sunk i'll.
PARIS, Jan. 27-Anothcr day has
passed, but the waters of the Seine
creep slowly higher each inch widely ex-
tending the area of destruction. desoiatton
and ruin
Although the barometer is rising rap
Idly ana bright sunshine today succeeded
me raging storms. feeling OF consterna-
1pht o;oh, 9Ghrderins Dhc,e on panie prevailed to-
day said the maximum OF the flood would
come To-Day ANNOUNCED that this would
ciai hgures Of the stage Of the water
are difficult TO obtain, and the city
6 e69unen at stormy session tonight
conceallns the gravity OF the situation.
The prefect defended his attitude by say
ing that he was governed by the neces-
sity of not unduly alarming the people.
In the meantime. what Is happening
Is enough to strike terror TO the hearts
OF ;tL The crust of the city seems like
iabyrinths beneath.
Streets Turn to Canals
Every hour drains are bursting in new
localities. causing subsistence of the
streets or bulgiDg them up several feet
while the overflow of surface water from
the river Is transforming the inundated
districts into formidable lakes and the
streets into canals.
In the Bercy quarter the water is six
feet deep In the streets and the entire
lett bank OF the Seine from above the
Islands TO Auteuil. compromising the Law
Court institute, the fashionable. ST. Ger
main district. the foreign office. the
chamber OF deputies and the Champs de
Mars, Is submerged under from one 10
Some deputies left the Palais Bourbon
tonight in rowhoars, others on the backs
Of attendants.
wing OF the foreign office opposite are
in danger OF collapse. Nevertheless
Nine. Picbon. wife of the foreign minis
oil lamps and crate fires being employed
in the absence OF steam heat and cleo
,riCIty,
Desperate Situation.
Streets surrounding the St. Lanare
station have sunk three feet and the
situation there is regarded as desperate.
4 is also feared that the foundations of
he two big ncighboring department
stores are being undermined.
The overflow Of the broken sewers into
II the occupants, and the smell of sew
ec is already permeating the build
ngs. notwithstanding this, the police
hose Of the wealthier class, who are
sing automobile engines for pumping
purposes, ,ha, they, must exercise the
atcr pressure would likely cause the
10 sink or collapse.
Soldiers arc working desperately by the
Dove the Sofcriuo and Henry ~.
ridges while large forces of men are
till engaged in constructing dams TO di-
ert he course Of the swiftly moving
urrents
Good Work of Relief
There wss u further shutdown OF
ectrc light plants tonight. Relief work
proceeding bravely none being refused
rdered public prayers N the churches
nd collection for the victims.
IN SInle OF til- tl4PpfCu water supply.
1thorities say that the reservoirs are
tact and that there IL no Danger Of
famine II the water * husbandsd care
Ny aud confined strictly to drinking
lrposes. AZ tho same time a warning IL
gsiu issued that tho water should be
,iled.
The situation below Paris is becoming
,prcCably worse, The stretch OF water
at eugulfs Boulogne; Neuly: PuteauS
svrcs, Asnieres Maisons-Laffi Lc-
;cd and Polssy, is widening rapidly,
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