The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-29

added a new thrill os horror to the
stricken city and country this forenoon
Throughout the night tne condition had
| grown moro serious
The devastation has now penetrated
the very heart of Paris, the Georgian
rivers and sewers underneath literally
blowing up the streets, while the area
of the surface ovcrhowed by the wa
ters OF tho Seine was doubled today.
Twelve of the twenty-five bridges over
the river have been closed and the
quays on either side of them have been
roped off as unsafe.
The Esplanade des Invalides is a
sheet of water. The flood has crept
back almost to the Jardin du Luxem"
Place de In Concorde, which was closed
and guarded by soldiers, and the lower
Champs Elysees on the right bank.
Vast Extent of Disaster.
The Palais de Glaze and other resorts
and restaurants are surrounded, even
the Place de l'Opera at the coro of the
city threatening to sink to the subway
beneath. Callers throughout the dis
trict from that point to the street La
zare station, comprising the Fauborg
Montmartre and the Rue Berger and
the richer sections in the Rue de Pro
vence, the Rue Drouot and the Rue
Chateau Don are filed to the street
level with water from the oyerfiowed
subterranean river.
From the Rue de Ia Grang- -Batehere
only one street, the Rue de la Roquete,
is opening into the submerged eleventh
reimbursement, necessitating three
mile detour to reach the eleventh from
the ninth reimbursement.
The Palace of the Legion of Honor
has been evacuated The situation in
the neighborhood of the French insti-
tute has become desperate,
.Today's papers are filled with pages
city of light has become city of
slime, filed with muddy waters. Busi-
ness is almost at n standstill and the
hotels are crowded with persons who
have fled from inundated homes.
Famine May Come Next.
The prices of necessaries are ad
vancing rapidly. as the transportation
facilities grow less The operation of
the North Railway company is threat
ened into the city, as the tracks are
submerged.
This last means Of insuring suburban
traffic was interrupted for time today
when the tracks of the Belt line were
engulfed at the Rue de Couricelles.
The roads leading to the city were
filed early today with pedestrians GO
ing to their work and long procession
of refugees bent beneath the weight Of
sacks containing the few of their be-
longings that they had been able to
save. Practically all are without
funds.
Disaster followed disaster during the
day. A gaping chasm opened in the
lower Champs Elysees, engulfng a cart
and two men. One of the men was res
cued. but the other with the horse was
swept away.
Toward noon the water gushed out of
the Tuilleres entrance to the Metro"
politan subway, flooding the square in
front of the Comedie Francalse. An
attempt TO keep the water down in the
section of the subway at this place was
made by using pumps through holes
bored at distant points, but with little
success.
Within the city there is practically
no means of transportation except by
cabs and taxi autos, the owners Of
which charge fabulous prices. The
steam tyamways, which were the only
surface lines remaining after the cleo
trio cars failed, were unable to move
today, as the water had entered the
fire boxes.
Communication by omnibus between
the two sides of the river has been sus.
pended owing to the unsafe condition
Of the bridges.