The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-29
FLOOD CONDITION INCREASES IN HORROR EVERY HOUR AND
 CREST NOT REACHED.
Underground Rivers and Sewers Are Bursting and Adding Their Bur den to the Already Great Dis
 aster of the City.

Paris. Jan. 2S.--A cry of agony goes up from the people of Paris to- night. "Will the end never come?'' they are asking.
 After a slow but steady rise of the flood waters throughout the day, the fiuvial department at mignight could only issue statement nanswer say. 1t was probable the crest of the tur- Sulent flood would be reached tomor. row.
 The water has begun to fall in all the affluents of the Seine above Paris but the passage through the city is clogged by bridges and an immense accumulation of drift and the seething waters hourly are spreading over new areas.
 Choked underground rivers and sewers are bursting their confines and playing havoc with the streets, swamping more cellars and threaten ing more foundations of buildings.
 story of the details of the great. est flood that has swept Paris in years would simply be repetition of what has gone before.
 Tonight the city preesnts weird QnacfaoIo tho cnl,1tarc .nsfo.r e~o men and police hastily constructing temporary walls by the light of camp fires and torches in an endeavor to keep out the invading floods, while pickets patrol those sections of the city which arep lunged in darkness by the bursting of the gas mains and the stoppage of the eelctric lighting plant.
 The situation in the Place De LOp- era tonight is grave.
 The entire territory has been roped off as being unsafe. It is stated also that the new Equitable Life Assur- ance Society building is in danger of collapse.
 President Fallieries and Premier Briand today drove in automobiles to the flooded suburbs. where distress is greatest, speaking words of comfort to the homeless and encouraging the soldiers and others engaged in sal wage and rescue work. On their re. turn they said that everything hu- manly possible was being done to aid the stricken and prevent further ray. ages by the flood.
 Charitable organizations are coop. erating with the authorities in throw. ing open their buildings and succoring refugees. Several convents and number of public buildings have been equipped with military cots and bed ding and transformed into hospitals. The Red Cross is performing splendid service in distributing food and clotn- ing.
 Nevertheless numerous pitiful in stances are cited of women and chil. dren, who had refused to leave their homes in the submerged districts shrielSing from their windows for bread.
 It is difficult to present 6 mental picture of the geographical limits of the submerged area of Paris, but, roughly speaking, it is estimated that the surface inundated from the Seine which must not be confounded with the overflow in the back streets from bnrsted sewers and subterranean riy- CTS, covers about nine square mnes, or one-quarter of the city.
 Beginning where the Seine enters the fortifications, every quay is under water and practically the entire elev. enth arondissement. the largest in the city, is submerged. the flood extend ing back from the quayNde Bercy and the quay de La Rapee to the Place de La Nation and the Place de La Bastile.
 Just below, as far as the Place du chatalet. behind the quay des celes tine and the quay Henri ". water