Show FLOODS IN FRANGE HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS AND RUINED AS RESULT OF HIGH WATERS village villages submerged and hours houses col lape lapse when water waters weaken the foundation foundations Hom homeless elees are suffering parle paris floods baye have exceeded all records and are fast as slimIng the proportion proportions of a national disaster in the northeast and west hundreds are h homeless omel e s a an and d ruined although it is in impossible to estimate the damage it will be great one of the water mains nerving serving one of the most populous districts burst and the people of the district aredith are without water it Is feared that the city will be in a like condition soon as the flood Is invading the pumping sta eions the compressed air 1 factory which supplies elevators in paris parts also has been forced to shut down officials of the prefecture are find ing great difficulty in securing shelter for the homeless many persons vacated their tore term saturday and more vacated sunday on the ho boulevard of rt st germain a house la Is uttering tnt tring and threatening to fall on the ch chimber imber of deputies one of at the few casualties reported sunday was the sweeping away of a man who was trying to drag some floating logs lags from the river the situation in the out outskirts kirts of parle paris Is even worse than in the city proper at Al forteville the dam burst overwhelming houses the people being forced to fly leaving their belongings behind |