The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-02-03

| fnxfs, jan ZS.-After . slow bal
steady rise Of The food waters all day,
the F1uviaI department. 1t midnight
could ouly issue . statement sayina
that II wns possible the crest of thu
food would be reached tomorrow.
Tbs water has begun TO fall in all Of
tbs tributaries Of the Seine ADORE
Paris, bat TIE passage through tbe
city u clogged BY bridges and an i'm
msnss accumulation Of drift continued
tonight Sailors, iiremen and police
are hastily constructing temporary
walls by the light Of campfres and
torches In m eDdsavor 10 keep out the
invading foods, while pickets patrol
those sections of the city that are
plunged in darkness
The situation in the Place De l'Opera
tonight 10 serious The entire terri
tory has been roped Oh ~ unsafe. 1t
10 said also that the nov Equitable
Life Assurance building 10 in danger
Of collapse.
President FaIIiezee and Premier
BRAND today drove in automobiles to
the Hooded suburbs, whsre distress is
greatest, speaking words Of comfort to
the homeless and encouraging soldiers
and others engaged in salvage aud res
cue work.
Charitable organizations are cooper
ating With the authorities in throwing
open their buildings and in succorjpe
refugees. Several converts and .
number Of public buildings have been
equipped with military cots and bed
ding and transformed into hospitals.
The Red Cross il performing splendid
services In distributing food and cloth
Ing Nevertheless, numerous ipstap-
ces are cited Of women and children
who had refused to leave their homes
In the submerged districts, shriekinR
from their windows for bread.
The number Of refugees arriving
here 10 enormous, Clarendon alone
sending in $4,000, who had got there
from Calais and other afflicted points.
The family of N. Barthou, ex-min-
lister Of public works. whose home in
the Avenue d'Antun is surrounded.
was taken out on the backs Of soldiers
and In boats.
"A large number of schools are closed
and the municipality is considering the
advissbility Of closing all. Practically
all Of the flooded suburban towns about
Paris tonight are without light and
several arc without water. Their in
habitants are leaving.
The chamber Of deputies held . sit
ting today in the water beleaauered
Palais Bourbon, believing that an sd-
)ournment or transfer of their activ-
tiles to Versailles, which had been
suggested, would only serve to in
crease the popular panic. Parliament
today voted bill extending business
notes one month.
Communication with England, HoI-
land, Denmark, and Austria and MANY
cities and towns In France is complete
" cut off. The telephone has been
abandoned in Paris. New
are being flooded constantly
and the people are vacating blocks of
Several hospitals where sick refu-
gees we're taken are in a dreadful |
blight, the water having quenched fires
IN the furnaces.
-Four hundred patients were hurried |
y removed in anbulsnces from the
Hospital de Ia Salpetriere and the Hoe
,ital Boucicault- Their rescue was
iramstic and timely. The hospital
vas isolated and . new rush of water
threatened to level it The tireless
reject OF police, NJ Lepine, sum-
noned ambulances and boats and add
ional police and soldiers.