FRENCH FLOODS SUBSIDING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 301, 29 January 1910, Page 5

FRENCH FLOODS SUBSIDING

RAILWAY BRIDGES COLLAPSE. BREAD RIOTS THREATENED. I3y Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Paris, January 27. The Seine and Maine are now subsiding. Some of tiie arches of the Orleans railway bridge at Paris have collapsed. A serious rise in paces of provisions has taken place in Paris, and bread riots are threatened. Thousands of people were rescued from the eastern suburbs yesterday, but ■six hundred still cling to the submerged dwellings. A platform at the Gare do Lyone collapsed. Water under the Quai Austerlitz "burst the roadway. THE WORST OVER. PEOPLE SHOUT WITH JOY. iou,ooo Workmen idle. FLOOD'S AMAZING SUDDENNESS. NEW COMET BLAMED FOR THE DISASTER. Received 2S, 11..3 p.m. Pari-, January 28. The upper reaches of the Seine and Murne are subsiding. Kxciu'd crowds on the Parisian quays £reeted_ the signs of the Seine falling 'with shouts of joy. Fine weather and a frost give hope that the worst is over. Meanwhile a "ifth of Paris is inundated and 100.000 workmen idle. The Chamber of Deputies were completely cut off. The members are earned to the Chamber on tile shoulders of attendants wearing sewer boots, a dyke hfcng rut to save the Louvre. A feature of the Hoods is the amaziny suddenness with which they reached the present proportions. Former inundations took two weeks or a month io attain the maximum. The present flood took a week. The popular belief is that file new comet is the cause of the disaster.