Show LANDSLIDES OF I II I TREES AND SAND I Desolation Wrought By a Cloud cond burst in France FIVE HURDRED WORKSHOPS WRECKED VILLAGE STREETS FILLED WITH VAGE STRETS FLD 3SIASSES OF DEBRIS DE13BI Many of the Principal Merchant Are Absolutely Ruined and Thousands Thous-ands of Workmen Are Not Only Without Employment but Also Without Shelter Onrush o Water Was so Sudden that Many Had Very Narrow Escapes Paris June 7The latest details from Grenoble in the department of Isere show that the desolation wrought by tne ciouaourst wnicn causeu me river Merge to overflow its banks Is far more extended than was at first supposed The deluge of water caused enormous landslides of trees and sand from the mountains into the valley overwhelming houses burying cattle and destroying other property In many villages the fleeing Inhabitants left everything behind them lef Almost all the riverside factories were destroyed and no fewer than 500 workshops were wrecked The town of Voiron presents a lamentable la-mentable appearance All the bridges are gone and the streets are filled with masses of debris washed out from tin factories and shops bales of cloth rolls of silk and similar manufactured products while the roads of the town and the district around about are completely com-pletely choked with rocks and fallen trees or gullied with great washouts Voiron is without gas as the gasworks gas-works have been destroyed Many of the principal merchants are absolutely ruined and thousanJs of workmen are not only without employment employ-ment but without shelter So sudden was the onrush of the waters that hundreds barely escaped with their lives In many of the offices and shops the occupants were up to their shoulders in water before they knew what had happened It is reported that a family of I six perished but thus far only fva tcllC3 have been found Many stories are told of heroic rescues res-cues Along the whole valley the crops are completely destroyed and the farms are all more or less damagea As the waters slowly subslle they leave behind great stretches of mud in which the soldiers aided by the inhabitants in-habitants are working ceaselessly at cutting channels to allow the vMter gathered in the hollows to return to the river The municipal authorities have decided de-cided to blow up the dam at Castellon to facilitate the escape of the water which Is still three feet deep in many houses especially at Moirans where buildings are constantly collapsing |