Show SEINES WATERS ARE Crest of Flood Was Reached at Midnight Remaining Station Stationary Stationary ary PARIS RELIEF Jim In Sonic Some t Situation Worse V Surface nt i invading r Steeds I V Crevices AJI aring Paris Jan Th river Seine I is falling today It at the tho rte rate ot of quarters o of a ch an hour The h ben at at 2 i this morning moring and pr promises to continue The river has dropped eight Inches and the river Yonne 18 Inch Inches es Cs from Its food flood The hope II ut strOng that the subsidence of al all tile the streams wi will be rapid The Tho high mark reached by tIle the rIver Seine at Pont Rl Royal was 31 feet teet 1 Inch Is the highest known The tood flood or Of 1615 is 18 said to suave attained It its crest at I 3 30 feet teet 6 Inches PaIs Paris water waters ot of the SeIne ater after having reached ranched an unprecedented unprecedented height and causing cusing gat great des destruction began to recede today todar The crest or oC thc tood Wa reached at ht The waters remained stationary 2 after which they fel fell slowly At S there thero had been 0 a drop or of 2 Inches according to an officIal statement Issued this forenoon During the night the storm cloud clouds disappeared and the tho weather cleard cleared TOils morning the sun shone brightly The dela delay In telegraphic I Iton ton throughout France and to Ial Italy V I Imd md and Switzerland today I SITUATION IZ iN PARS PARIS Despite the tho tact fact that the waters sub subsided sub subsided V sided tho forenoon the situa situation ton tion within the tho city wa was not Improved On the content the surface water further Invaded the streets whIle the pressure from th the choking torrents under underground opened new crevices In InsOle sOle places and at other points forced up time tho pavements Into great obstruction tion hummOcks and sometimes ton tearing up trees and lamp posts h w n I I l t Place del Ja tm Concorde the Rue Ro Royale ale the Pla Place e V The damage h has s been nt at atthe the Place do e and the St Lz Laz Lazare are staton station At the former four ba bad have occurred one In front ot of the new building of oC the Equitable Life Lite J As s society where the water has Into the basement Workmen have succeeded In erecting temporary wals walls to protects protect the tho furnaces rime he situation however Is not hot D as critical In the Place tie de as In Inthe time the region In front ot of the Sl St Lazare station where thc waters vaters 1 racing cl 1 g through the Rue de 10 ha subway joining time tho food flood ot of over overflowed flowed sewers sowers ha has turned the Place du Havre Into a lake and tons or of the Ruo Ruc do lArcade the Rue de and the Boulevard Hauss Haussmann mann In front ot of time tho chapel erected to the memory ot of the Bourbons Into rivers AI All of time the buildings wIthin thIs quad have havo been evacuated and are surrounded by a cordon ot of soldiers The big department stores Including time the and the Galleries Laay etc ette have been close Closed Firmen Firemen and sappers were engaged In construct constructing Ing dams lii In this vicinity There was geat great danger danse In the streets stroet n as some ot of lapse the buildings appeared Ikel likely to eel col collapse |