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Show PARIS A SCENE I OF DEVASTATION J Terrific Storm Tears Great Holes in Streets Entire City Without Water, Ga or Electricity. J tl Pans. June 16 Several more buildings collapsed in various parts of Paris today owing to subsidence t( of the soil caused by yesterday's ter i rlfic storm, and a number of persons ! were injured. The list of dead C known today was officially stated to i be eight, but as more persons were reported missing the search of ihJ C debris was continued. Three bodies were recovered today from a deep hole at the junction of tl the Rue du Havre and the Boulevard Haussman near the alnt Lazare sta tion. The court yard of a hotel iu Ji. the Rue Pierre Ginier at Montmartr? fell In today, but there were no casualties. ca-sualties. , In another locality the walls of a J building under construction collapsed and two workmen were injured se- Y verely c I Paris, June l'i. Parts of Paris pre in senled scenes of devastation today j with gaping holes in some of the I-I I-I main thoroughfares as the result of I yesterday's terrific storm. The popu- lation of the entire city was deprived . of water, gas and electricity, cut off th as a precautionary measure againsi floods explosions and fires. Several lives are known to have been lost through vehicles falling inio cavities, but the exact number of dead wns not known as 6ome bodies were believed to have disappeared Into the ij sewers Heavy rains today added to the difficulties of searching for bod-ies. bod-ies. Strict precautions were taken to prevent the public approaching spots where there was danger of further I subsidence Many streets were closed io iranic A street collapsed early today in the northern district of Montmartre j behind the great cemetery, far from I the other cave-In. People in the vicinity vi-cinity scurried away as the ground began to sink and all managed to escape. When communication with the sub-j sub-j urbs had been partially restored to j day, it was learned that fruit and vegetable vege-table growers had suffered enormous j ' damage from the storm Rain ceased later In the day bu the weather continued threatening |