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Show PARIS IS NOW THREATENED WITH A SECOND DISASTROUS DELUGE i River Seine Is Rising Again and Government Hydrographers Predict Water Equal to the Flood Level of 1882 PnrK Feb. 9. The river Seine has risen nine inches here during tho twenty-four tours ending at noun today to-day owing to yesterday's ruin and inciting snow The hydrographlc department de-partment predicts a continued rls? until Friday, when It will r-ach a height of more than 22 feet nt Port Royal and equal the floud level of Although confident there is no dan-ier dan-ier of a repetition of the recent disaster, dis-aster, the authorities are taking thorough thor-ough precautions. The level of tho parapets at low places throughout the length of the city are being hastily hasti-ly raised by Improvised dykes. The return of high water threatens to retard greatly the work of repair which Is In progress. The waters, which had dropped below tho mouths cl the sewers, are again pouring Into the conduits, drowning the electric llcht and power lines in tho vicinity of the Plnee do l'Opera. While service has been resumed on several sections of tho subwav, the management holds out no hope that the main line passing SL Iizaro station sta-tion will be restored for another n.onth. |