The Paris Floods.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 March 1910, Page 1

The Paris Floods.

*— —■ SCENES AND INCIDENTS. Rats, driven out from the lower depths, lodge for shelter on the top of pillars, where, deprived of all food, they ate one another. Two tiny children in cradles were carried away by the flood, at Neuilly I'leasance, on the Marue. They came from a house which had become submerged. In the,,He Saint Pierre eight jnhabitoints still remained in a house surrounded by 14ft of water, obstinately declining to leave, though they had been three days without supplies of food. In the police station in the Quartier St. Germain l'Auxerrois an office boy had a terrible fight with .an army of rats escaping from the flood. He with a. revolver and a stick, and escaped, after being badly bitten. A woman l in the Rue Charenton gave birth to a child, and could not he removed from her inundated dwelling when the other inmates were rescued. A nurse was left with her, and, her food was conveyed to thorn by boat. The most distressing scenes were witnessed at the evacuation of the Houcicault Hospital, which was gravely threatened by the waters. Four hundred patients were rescued by boats and gun carriages, many in a dying condition. They were wrapped in blankets, and carried by firemen to the boats for transfer to Paris.