Show ipa 3 ieli tf pit TS R si 9 1 FL U U 1 I HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS AND I 1 RUINED RUINED AS RESULT OF HIGH WATERS villages submerged and houses col lapse W when hen waters weaken ti the h A foundations homeless are suffering i paris floods have exceeded all records and are fast assuming the proportions of a national disaster in the northeast and west hundreds are homeless and ruined although it is impossible to estimate the damage it will be great one of the water mains serving one of the most populous districts burst and the people of the strict district di are without water it is feared that the city will be in a like condition soon as afie flood is invading in the pumping sta eions the compressed air factory which supplies elevators in paris also alib I 1 has been forced to shut down I 1 officials of the prefecture are finding great difficulty in securing shelters shelter for cor the homeless many mahy persons vacated their saturday and more vacated sunday on the boulevard of st germain a house is tottering and threatening to fall on oil the chamber of of deputies one of the few casualties reported I 1 sunday sund ay was the sweeping away oi of a man who was trying to drag some floating logs log s from the river the situation situ situation Atio n in the outskirts of paris is even worse than in the city proper at forteville Al the dam bursty burst overwhelming houses the people being forced to lly fly leaving their belongings behind t |