The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-26

the cemetery has been washed out
and caskets lifted from their resting
places, and are floating down stream.
TOWNS BENEATH WATER.
From Auteuil to st. Germain the
lower portions of all the riverside
towns are deep beneath the waters
and soldiers are forcing the residents
to evacuate their homes. The domes-
tic water supply at several towns has,
been cut off.
The animals of the geological gar
dens which were in danger of drown
ing have been removed to higher
grounds.
RELIEF is being organized On large
scale. Appeals for funds issued by the
Red Cross and other societies are
meeting with the most generous re-
sponses. Edmond Rostand has offered
to give the receipts, which are expect
ed to be enormous, from the first
nights presentation of his play, Chan
ticleer."
EPIDEMIC is FEARED.
Physicians fear an epidemic when
the flood subsidies, as the overtiow1ng
sewers are likely to contaminate the
drinking supply of water, and rats
driven out of their underground homes
are invading residences. The report
that the EiffeI tower should be perpen-
dicular when undisturbed is erroneous
1t is explained that the tower was
built with a base and each supplied
with a hydraulic lifting apparatus
which works automatically.
Befope noon the police compelled
the evacuation of the hotel PaIais
d'Orsay, near the Quai d'Orsay, and
the surrounding houses. The palace
of the Legion of Honor is menaced
and an accumulation of driftwood
above the Isle of st. Louis threatens
to sweep away the barrier of piles
and the Pont des Arts. News from
the provinces shows that there is a
general improvement in the food stu
alton this afternoon, except in the
east and at the affuents of the Seine
and Nuts.
Water laps the quays at the Place
de la Concorde, the Cours La RENE.
TeIegraphic communication in the
South of France is going to pieces
rapidly. Traffic between the Point des
Arts and Pont Neuf is suspended. A
three-story building on the Quai ola
Rapee collapsed this afternoon The
river Yonne is now falling and the
authorities hope that it's high mark
has been reached.
A great assure has opened in the
ground, cutting off the lighting supply
from the Place de Chichi and the
neighboring streets.
Last night the electricity failed at
the residence of American Ambassador
Bacon and the family was compeIle1
to depend upon candles.
Communications this afternoon be-
tween the provinces indicate that the
lions come most pitiful stories of suf-
fering and narrow escapes from death
which attend the work of rescue.
Melun is in darkness, VeEdon Sic
doubs partly flooded, Vardon is sub
merged and Chambery is threatened.
The entire region of Eperny is covered
with water. Many isolated families in
the country districts have been res
eued after days spent without food.
A boat load of life savers was caught
in the mad current of the river Marine
and ell were drowned.
The Reenault factory below Paris
has been abandoned, throwing $500
men out of work.
Several aeroplane shops on the
banks of the Seine where machines
were being built for use at the meet.
ing at Heliopolis, eight have been de-
stroyed.
The upper waters Of the Loire were
rising rapidly today, threatening an.
other disaster.