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Show been comparatively few, but many narrow escapes from death are re ported. The explosion of boilers In inundated factories is an occasional element of danger. I An enormous amount of livestock is reported to have been drowned In the departments of llarne, Aubc, AIs-ne AIs-ne and Mese. It 13 now believed the Eiffel tower, the foundations of which were threatened threat-ened by the waters, is no longer in danger of collapse. However, the , wireless station at tho top of the tow-I tow-I er has been abandoned temporarily. The rivers Rhone and Loire are re-I re-I ported falling and tho situation ac-I ac-I cordlngly improved at Lyons, Limo-j Limo-j ges, Troyes, Anuecy and Auxerre The property damage cannot be estimated es-timated with any accuracy but it will I be very great Late this afternoon, President Fal-j Fal-j lories and Premier Briand made a tour i of the flooded districts. The crest ! of tho flood had then almost touched i the top of the arches of Pont Alma. I Preparations were made to blow up j the span with dynamite If it should I become necessary. The sower in the Place Havre has j caved In and the Avenue Montaigne j has been invaded by the waters. The schools In the Inundated districts have j been closed. FOURTH OF FRANCE IS NOW SUBMERGED. 1 Paris, Jan. 24. A fourth of France, It is estimated, is under water today. Suow and rain are adding to tho floods which are unprecedented in the history his-tory of the Goods which are unprecedented unpre-cedented In the history of the present generation. The Scino continued to rise today end the situation In this city prows worse hourly. Water has drowned out the electric plant in the Chamber of Deputies and today the deputies met by lamp light. Premier Briand Introduced a bill appropriating $400,000 for the relief of suflerers. The bill was passed. Ho described what the government was already doing to abate the distress and highly pral-jrd the heroic rescue wcrk done by the soldiers and gend'arrr.es. Owing to the difficulty of getting food Into the city, market prices have 1.M.n raised, adding another element of dUtreps to tho poorer cluvcs. It hi estimated that 25.000 laborers havo boon thrown out of employment, Fortunately the cabualtleb hao |