The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-27
Special from United Press.).

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 Paris, Jan. 27.-The flood loss in Paris alone will reach $2OO, COG, ,O0O. ac- cording to estimates made by govern ment officials this afternoon A losc almost as great has already been suS- tained in other parts of France. Tho total loss, it is believed will reach the staggering total of half a billion dol lars.
 The family of Ambassador Robert Bacon will probably have to move be- fore the day is over. The water has TOW reached the first floor of the res idence in the Francois Premier and is steadily rising. On account of the inents for his first official dinner which was to have been given early in Feb ruary.
 The heating and lighting plants of the Hotel Dieu Hospital and the Bouci- cault Hospital are out of commission. Surgeons are performing operations by the light of lamps and candles and the operating rooms are heated by cotton xadding saturated with alcohol.
 The Home of the Aged in Ivry, where there are 2,000 inmates, has only enough food to last three days. It is impossible to remove the inmates, ow- ing to the swift flow of the water that surrc. unds the home.
 Paris, Jan. 27.-The "pinch of hum ger'' is rapidly giving way to the act nal danger of starvation for hundreds of flood-ruined unfortunates in Paris and other parts of France, and all be- cause of the excessive red tape with which the French government always conducts it's affairs in such crises as the present.
 Unless private charities meet the urgency of the desperate situation starvation for many is believed inevit- able
 1rba ,o,-a-,-,o,4 ;- o oo+;,r ,,-;tI, ;+c usual delfberation in sending out sup plies and every bit of relief it fur nishes must first be passed upon by a long list of functionaries
 One has only to go to the St. Sul- pice Seminary, a former church prop refuge for the flood victims. to see to what dire straits the poor have been reduced. Hundreds of ragged women and children and few old men crowd the building. They are huddled to- gether on the floor and eat their dole of soup and bread with an avidity that shows that the relief came to them none too soon.
 Similar scenes are witnessed in other of the improvised hospitals.
 The Pantheon will not be available for two days yet as a refuge. Heat must be obtained first as it is extreme ty cold within it's stone walls.
 The condition of the hundreds, who are being cared for after fashion by the city, is desperate. Many who have lost everything are found clinging to their ruined property or wandering aimlessly about the streets.
 The police are constantly picking up such and sending them to the relief stations. The soldiers and police are forcibly ejecting everyone found in houses that are deemed unsafe.
 Paris, Jan. 27.-With the thermome- ter below the freezing point and the relentless river Seine continuing it's devastating progress toward the top of the retaining walls. Paris aWoke today to what may rrove the most trying day in her history, aside from the crisis presented by war.
 What the end of the unprecedented flood will be. no one can say but it is enough to know that never before has the gay capital been so severely srnitten in a physical way
 Miles of the boulevard, one of the city's chief points of pride have been washed away; many of the most mo- table structures in the city. to see which travellers have been wont to come from the foremost countries of the earth; thousands are homeless and subsisting on scant provisions furnish ed by the city; the industrial life of