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Show PARIS IS IN GREATER DANGER THAN EVER, OWING TO BREAK IN RIVER BANKS . . . . People Were Rejoicing, Not Knowing the Cause of the Fall in the Seine, When the Greater Disaster Came the flooded quarter back of P.orcy wan rendered critical During tho forenoon the Qual D'Am-torlltz D'Am-torlltz embankment gave way with a roar, flooding new districts. The water has not yet reached the catacombs, where rest six million skulls. Paris. Jan. 27. Late In the after-i after-i noon the Fluvial department predicted j a further ri9e of S Inches sefore the crest of the flood In the river Seine was reached. The flurry of Joy at noon was followed by - pessimism a-i the waters continued to rise. 1 Paris, Jan. 27 The river Seine, , which, at flood stage, has caused I death and destruction during the last few days, was stationary at noon today. to-day. ; Paris today resembles a belengured i city. The military commander In each t of the five sections Into which the j metropolis has been divided holds sol-1 sol-1 dlers In constant readiness for dis-; dis-; patch to points of danger. The government of the municipality I has placed the military barracks and public school buildings at the disposal of the refugees, who already number, I It Is estimated, more than 100,000. ! Fifteen thousand laborers of tbe city are out of work, and though subscriptions sub-scriptions are pouring In, 200.000 hav- ( Ing been raised last night, of which Jl 40,ofH) was contributed br the American Amer-ican chamber of commerce, the government gov-ernment today decided to ask parliament parlia-ment for an additional credit to be used in relief work. Kvery minute .today brought a new-tale new-tale of disaster. At 8 o'clock the vuult of the Orleans railway tunnel gav-p way at the Rue Git Ie Couer. I Another bad cave-In occurred in the R l.llle, flooding the quarters of the German embassy. The buildings of the foreign office were surrounded by water this morning morn-ing and abandoned. The main drain undT the Champs de Mars broke during dur-ing the forenoon and the blanket of water extended back to the Invalldes, where repose the bones of Napoleon. Several subsidences have "occurred in the Plac.o de La Concordo, the Rue St. Honore and the Kuo u? Ip?e. lJThe baeexD?nts of the grand palace I and the homo of President Falllerles I are filled with water. Whole seclions of the city, including tho St. Lazare subway station, have been roped off. ! The boiling waters bew een tbe Pont 1 Au Change and Pont Nore Dame in-I in-I dlcate that tho roof of the subway un-. un-. derneath has collapsed. The curator of tbe Louvre museum ?aid today that although tho basement of the building ha1 been Inundated, the statuary hall was still six feet above the level of the water, and the j sculptures and engravings on the first floor were in no immediate danger at present. Immediately opposite, however, there was great danger to the Institute de France, the home of the Academic Francaise, which was surrounded by I the waters, as was the Mazarin pal-1 pal-1 ace. whose valuable art collections were hurrledh removed to the sec-. sec-. oud story The region In the neighborhood of j the law courts and the prefecture of ; police was flooded and chairs and ta-i ta-i bles were drifting about. In the midst of new and alarming ' developments and shortly before noon, ! a dismaved crowd thai was watching the water gauge at Pont. Royal noticed that for ten minutes the flood re- ; malned stationary, and that nt noon it actually began to subside. By 12:30 o'clock the waters had fa'lcn three-quarters of an Inch and the watchers shouted with Joy. The glad .tidings passed from mouth to mouth and soon the entire quay was ' ringing with cheers. The news spread like wildfire along the quays, turning exclamations of horror to shouts of Jubilation The work of building temporary dykes back of the parapet, which had i j begun at daylight, did not ceaso for a moment, however. In many places the soldiers labored In three feet of water damming the openings in the parapet and constructing con-structing great holding dykes of stone and cement. Between the Place de a Concorde and Avenue de Alexander, Alexan-der, where the water had began to flow over the parapets, l.nno men were busy erecting n wall In the middle mid-dle of the road to keep the waters out of the Champs Elysee quarter. Paris, Jan. 27. The sun Is shining : in Paris today. The rain ceased throughout the nffllcted districts be-J be-J fore noon, and as the water of the ' SHno appeared to subside the lamentations lamen-tations of the populace gave -way to rejoicing. It is hoped the worst Is over, but 'tho wish is father to the thought. At 12 o'clock the gauge showed a drop in the waters or the Seine at Pont Royal The subsidence continued contin-ued for thirty minutes, amounting to three-quarters of an Inch. Cries of Joy from tho water watchers watch-ers were taken np by thousands along the quays. Later it was claimed that the fulling was due to the rapid overflow over-flow Into the Percy quarter from points where tho Seine had broken j its barriers. The experts say the river was still rising this afternoon, but that the maximum flood should be reached by 3 o'clock. The Percy quarter has been abandoned aban-doned by the residents. The temperature has moderated, affording af-fording much relief to homeless. President Falllerles and Premier Pirland today visited the hospitals and other places whore refugees have heen cbeltered. . ,. Notre Dame was surrounded by water wa-ter today and the crypts were flooded. The rotten jiallsndca back of the St. ioulc gave way and the situation in 1 |
