Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-02-02
GHOULs MENACE
FLOOD VICTIMS
Lawlessness and Danger Of Pes
thence Become Issues.
TEN LooTERs ARE KILLED
Buildings in Paris Are collapslns as
Waters Recede-Authorlties Are
Fighting Against Epidemic
Of Disease.

Paris, Feb. With the recession
of the waters of the Seine. Paris is
beginning to feel the after effects OF
the food. The pavement on the cor
ner of the Rue. st. Lazare and the
Rue Caumartin has subsidized several
feet.
A house collapsed on the Rue Lee
courbe shortly after it had been evac-
uated by the tenants. On the Rue des
Entrepreneurs huge gap was opened
under the cellars of several houses
and the whole Of the ground floor of
u house on the Impasse de l'Eglise is
undermined. Several assures have
opened in the Quai d'Orsay.
Looters Are Shot.
Collapsing buildings and streets,
however, are not the most serious
problems confronting the authorities.
Lawlessness and danger of pestilence
have become the issues Of the mo-
ment. Ghouls are taking advantage of
chaotic conditions to plumber boldly
both in Paris and the provinces. Re
ports tell of half score of looters
shot and killed by soldiers.
The feeling against the Apaches
was demonstrated in various dramatic
instances of pursuit in rowboats. Bat
ties between hooters and pursuers
were fought. Three Apaches were
shot dead and two others hanged to
lamp posts as warning.
Epidemic Is Feared.
The authorities are devoting all eff
forts to preventing general epidemic
as the foods subside. A house to
house canvass is being made and the
people are wafned not to re-occupy
rooms which have been flooded until
the quarters have been disinfected
As the deposits of mud left by the
waters are removed from the houses
quicklime will be plentifully used and
the floors and walls cleaned and white
washed or painted.
The principal danger is from ty-
phoid, the germs of which may be re-
ceived through the digestive channels
II the impure watersis drunk.
American Relief Increasing.
Women of the French nobility are
playing prominent part in the work
of relief. Donations from America are
materially swelling the relief fund.
Among the numerous sums cabled di-
rect from the United States are $780,
900 from the Standard Oil Company,
$4,000 from Speyer & Co., and S., 900
from Frank j. Gould. The newspapers
at Paris have already raised more than
$25O,00O and turned this sum over to
the relief societies.
1t is estimated by the fluvial depart
ment that it will take at least two
weeks for the river to get down to its
normal level. The fall now Is at the
rate of about a quarter of an inch an
hour. The weather continues favorable
and the temperature is slightly lower.
A concerted effort is being made to
restore the telegraph, cable and tele-
phone lines and reestablishment of the
now demoralized railroad communica.
ton. There is no prospect OF restoring
the electric light and power systems
this week.
Trains on the Orleans line are now
eachlng Paris by branch line from
sayigny. near which place there were
two accidents in which II persons
were injured.
News from the outskirts is more
hopeful. Thousands Of refugees from
Genevillters. Villeneuve and Colombes
are at Henieres. where the authorities
are at their wits ends as to how to
provide for them. Paris is running out
Of coal.