VIOLENT STORM IN PARIS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7

VIOLENT STORM IN PARIS

TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR CAUSES ENORMOUS DAMAGE

SEVERAL LIVES LOST

YAWNING CHASMS IN THE STREETS By Tclcgrapli-PraM Aftssciotioii— Copyright (Rec. Ju.ua IG, 11,30 p.ja.) Paris, Juno 1.6, . The worst thunderstorm for fifty years has struck Paris, Tho vlsitatian was accompanied by a torrential tjovmpour which lasted two add a half hours. Several of the sewers hurst, n;ui tib subsidence caused a hole 159 Sijifaro yards and 40' feet deep. Iu tho J'laeii Saint J.'hilrppe do Ronie, a crowd was standing under an attiiitig,' and fifteen persons whirled away by a flood that ntonnnitafliy engulfed them. Five wcro drowned. : \awning gaps, toil' ftet acroSß, appeared in many ci the roads, which collapsed into tljo fcsta-valiens for t-iic c.lec» trio, underground railway, some fifty foot deep. A motor-bus fell into one of these gaps, a number of passengers being kTlled, while tiV'fl j:asi*cab.s fell into a thirty feet hale, three people being killed: Several buildings collanscd aiid iiiany cellars were flooded-; (las-mains ploded, blowing tip tho pavement, aiid the electricity failed on tho underground railway.

At the Place tio la Co.';rord'\ railway passengers we.ro tlirowu ir<t<3 a panic. A similar panic took place in i/hti street, where there was » wild rush to mc&pe from the crumbling earth. Even t!w police fled.

Tho damagfe in Paris -.Will leadi at least half a million.

The storm struck a building which tfas being constructed at, Chrisy le Roi, where twenty masons were at work, 'IVo <vf them were killed., aiid eight seiitfuslv injured. . "

It is believed that thirty jjersoss may be foimd in tho tlohris of the Metropolitan Railway, vi'Mc'li collapsed-in Various places. '