The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-28

The food invaded the Hotel Cont
mental, stopped the electric supply and
upset the kitchen arrangements. The
restaurants everywhere are doing in
creased business. householders being
unable to cook at home owing to lack
of fuel and other difficulties.
The prices of perishable food con
tinues to rise steadily. People with
small incomes are being pinched by
these Inconvenience, but their diem
ma Is merely a picnic compared with
the sufferings of the thousands who
have been driven from their homes. 1t
is figured that there are at least 49,
900 persons shelterless In public build
ings, glad to have straw mattress to
lie on and a soldiers rationsS for sup
per. Their homes and furniture either
lie soaking in mud and water or are
completely wrecked, for a number of
slight houses in the poor suburban
districts collapsed beneath the pressure
of the food.
The city itself has been divided into
five main sections for the distribution
the military governor and the prefect
of police. The work done for the pub
lie under their direction is of incalcula-
BILE value. The soldiers and police are
busy from dawn to dark. They spend
most of their time in wading in mud
and water above their knees distribut-
ing food and rescuing the sick and
pthot.c nv bn Hop1
The rescuers often meet with the
greatest difficulty in persuading peo-
pie TO leave their homes. This has
been particularly the case in the dis
trict of Javel, densely peOpled area
beyond the Champ de Mars.
The district had already suffered by
the compulsory closing of the automo-
itants were employed, and the ingress
| of water to their homes often raised
| helpless anger and vague threats
against the authorities or more pros
/ porous neighbors. About 25,000 per-
| sons residing in the district of Javel
are homeless.
One of the greatest dangers to Paris
bling of the foundations of buildings
The evacuation of one wing of the
4 ministry of foreign affairs is an indi
cation OF the realization of this dan
ger. The ground gave way at the
Metropolitan railway station at Bercy
and the water rushed in. This consti
tuted a danger TO the neighboring
I caH 20 hf
hurriedly evacuated.
A volume might he filed with ever
the brief and incomplete reports of dis
aster from the provinces. The exten
OF the catastrophe is appalling. Fo
nearly hundred miles upstream iron
Paris in the combined Seine, Marn
and Yonne country there is nothing
but devastation.
In the department of Pas de Calai
the waters are increasing, and th
food is assuming alarming proper
tions at Savigny -sur-Orge. The situa
ton at Epernay is also very grave
Fourteen houses have collapsed at Con
fans. The canal at st. Justs has burs
it's banks, and the fate of several fam
/
ascertained.
The Marne continues to rise. A
Charenton, where the Marne joins tn
Seine, 1000 persons have been obliget
, to leave their homes.
. According to reports from Bordeaux
, the rivers Gers, Charente, Adour ant
Dordogne are rising. The roofs o
houses have been torn away by tn
storms. In Savoy the village of Tel
, renue Is completely submerged. Th
lower part of the Mevieres is flooded
! and several factories in the Meuse va
! ley have been compelled to cease wOrl
Rheims, Eperney, Chalons-sur- Marn'
Sens, Auxerre and Beauvais are in th
midst of floods as well as the town
farther down, such as Melun, Corbe
J. and Nantes. Two thousand person
have quit their houses in Sens. Coun
I less thousands are in distress in ii
: smaller towns and villages.