Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-28
Disaster Penetrates to
the Very Heart of the
City of Paris.
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
Seine NearS Highest Point Ever
Known and Rise Still
Continues.

Paris, Jan. 23.-The Seine Is still
rising at noon today at the rate OF an
inch and quarter an hour. There
I is steady downpour Of rain and the
temperature is falling. Everywhere
the situation Is aPpreclabIy worse than
yesterday.
Chicago Raising Fund.
Chicago. Jan. 2S.-The raising of
relief fund for the victims of the Paris
flood was started here today by sew
eral clubs and organizations.
Outlook Grows BIncI<er.
Paris, Jan. 2S.-Flood prospects
grew black again this morning The
temperature rose during the night and
the wind veered to the southwest,
sweeping the flooded sections from a
new angle. Rain was\falling heavily
at daybreak today.
Build Wall to Curb Water.
Morning found a great force of ma
sons still at work in the erection of a
wall which it was hoped would divert
the flood from the historic Hotel Lam
bert and the famous Hotel Lauzun ad-
joining. Rue st. Lazare is inundated
throughout its extent, the water having
found its way up through a subway.
The roof of the subway under the
Place De Lopera fell in during the
night.
Near Mark of 1918.
The Isle ST. Louis is fast disappear
ing and unless conditions change soon
will be submerged. The Seine con-
tinued to rise early today and lacked
but a few inches of attaining the
greatest flood maximum on record in
1915.
Disasters Follow Fast.
Disaster followed disaster as the day
advanced During the morning a gap
ing chasm opened in the lower Champs
Elysee, and toward noon the water
gushed out of the Tuilleries entrance
to the Metropolitan subway and food
ed the square in front of the Comedie
Franchise. The palace of the Legion
of Honor has been evacuated. The sit
uation in the neighboThood of the
French Institute has become desperate.
Havoc Equal to War.
Today's papers are filled with pitiful
and terrifying details. War would
hardly play such havoc. Business is
almost at a standstill. Hotels are
crowded with persons who fled from
their inundated homes and the prices
of necessaries are advancing by leaps
and bounds.
Devastation in Heart of City.
T6a
very heart of Paris. Gorging rivers
and sewers underneath are literally
blowing up the streets, while the area
of surface overffowed by the waters
of the Seine was doubled today. Quays
of either side Of the river from one end
of the city to the other are either in
undated or have been roped off as I'M
safe EspIanade Des Invalides is
sheet of water
The flood crept back almost to Jardin
Du Luxembourg on its left bank and
invaded Place De La Concorde, which
was closed and guarded by soldiers,
and the lower Champs Elysee on the
right bank.
Buildings May Sink.
Palais De Glace and other pleasure
resorts are surrounded, and even the
Place De La Opera, at the core of the
. city, is threatening to sink in the sub
way beneath. Cellars throughout the
district from that point to st. Lazare
station, comprising Faubourg. Mont
Matre and Rue Berger, and the richer
sections in Rue De Provence, Rue
Drouot and Rue Chateaudon are filled
to the street level with water from the
overflowed subterranean river.
Italy Has Seen Worst.
Rome, Jan 2S.-Splendid weather re-
turned today and floods throughout
Italy are receding.