PARIS FLOODED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9706, 31 January 1910, Page 5

PARIS FLOODED.

A HUNDRED THOUSAND o|| OF WORK. SEINE AGAIN OVERFLOWS. SEWERS BURSTING THEIR BOUNDS. United Press Association - By Electric Telegraph Copyright. FARIS, January 28. The Senate has adopted a measure extending the date of payment of bills falling due in the flooded districts. It is estimated that one hundred thousand persons have been thrown out of work. Lazare railway terminus has been closed. The Seine to-day overflowed the parapets at the Quai de la Conference, invading the Champs Elysees. The Esplanade des Invalides, on the left hank, was also under water. to the severe cold many sewers are bursting. lhe twelfth Arrondissement is entirely inundated, partly from the sewers. Military posts hsve been established behind the barriers to ensure order. The misery and desolation in the outlying quarters of the city are pitiful.

SYMPATHY ABROAD. LONDON, January 28. A relief fund has been opened at the Mansion UuJse for tha relief of sufferers by the floods in France President Taft has cabled expressing the sympathy of the American people and offering Red Cross aid. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PARIS AND LONDON DESTROYED. PEOPLE FOODLESS FOR DAYS* CRYING FROM THE WINDOWS FOR BREAD.

FLOOD ROARING THROUGH UNDERGROUND STATIONS. TERRIBLE FIGHTS WITH RATS. USTNG BOATS FOR FUNERALS. Received January 30, 5 p.m. PARIS, January 29. Violent ram and hailstorms have been experienced in Paris. The Seine has risen thirty feet. The Commedie Francaise and the Notre Dame are threatened and the ChampsjElysees and the Central Telegaph Office are flooded. Communication between Paris and London is destroyed. Residents in soma of the streets have been foodless since Wednesday, and the people are crying from the windows for bread. There is an alarming subsidences in many of the streets through the waters upward pressure and the collapsing of the network of sewera, water mains and hydraulic tubes. The roadway in the Avenue Alexander the Third has collapsed. The flooded quarter is without gas, and the prices of candles, oils and food are rising. The cellars in the Opera House and the Mint are full. The underground, station of the Hotel de Ville, the Ministries of Marine, War and Finance, the Marigny Theatre, the Bastille and Metropolitan Station, are all flooded. A torrent thirty feet deep is racing through the underground station at the Esplanade des Invalides, and the adjoining tunnel twenty feet below the roadway. The flood is also roaring through the underground station at the Rue Danto 500 yards from the Seine, and it is feared that the section which passes under the Seine has fallen in. The Voisin Aeroplane Works, together with dozens of aeroplanes, are destroyed. There have been terrible fights with rats by the imprisoned residents. The flood extends a mile north of the Seine to the at. Lazare Station, and has swept away barricades \n the Boulevard Haussman. The Place St. Michael, the Trocadero and the Champs de Mars, are all completely submerged. A chasm in the Champs Elysees engulfed a woman. The northern and eastern lines of railway are open. The officials are appealing for every boat that can be sent co Paris. The crowd have commenced to sack some of the flooded shops. The Czar has given £I,OOO, and the Pope £1,200 to the National Relief Fund. The great dyke at Gennevilliers burst, flooding a large area and imprisoning seven thousand persons in their homes. The Boucicaut Hospital had to be hastily evacuated. The engineers constructed a footbridge and carried the women patients with difficulty across the water five feet deep. Some of the patients will not survive the shock. Funerals are being conducted in boats. The Bourse is agitated, and there is a heavy fall in stocks.