MORE RAIN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13645, 31 January 1910, Page 7

MORE RAIN.

EIVER RISES 30 FEET. PEOPLE WITHOUT FOOD.

, FAMOUS PLACES FLOODED

PARIS, January 29

Violent rain and hail have fallen ."n Paris, and the Seine has risen 30 feet. The Comedie Francaise and the Cathedral of Notro Dam© aro threatened. The Elyeee Palace and the Central Telegraph Office aro flooded. Communication between Paris and London has been destroyed. Residents in some streets have been without food since Wednesday, and people are crying from the windows for bread. There have Been .alarming subsidences in many of the streets through tht? water's upward pressure., and tho collapsing of the network of sewers, w&termains, and hydraulic tubes. Tho roadway in the Avenue Alexander 111. collapsed. The flooded quarters are without gas and the prices of candles, oil and food am rising. The cellars of tho Opera House and tho Mint are full. The underground station of the Hotel de Ville, the Ministries of Marine, War and Finance, the Marigny Theatre, tho Bastille, and the Metropolitan Station are all flooded. A torrent 30 feet deep is racing through, the underground station of the Esplanade dcs Invalides and the adjoining tunnel 20 feet below the roadway. A flood is also roaring through the underground station in the Hue Danton, 500 yards from the Seine. It is feared, that the section of railwaythat passes under the Seino has fallen in

The Voisin aeroplane works and dozens of aeroplanes were destroyed. There have beea terrible fights be tween rats and imprisoned residents. The flood extends a mile north from the Seine to the St. Lazare Station. It swept away the barricades in the Boulevard Haufisman. The Place St. Michael, the Place da Trocadero, and the Champs de Mars are aJI completely submerged. A chasm in the Champs Elysees engulfed a , woman. The northern and eastern lines ara open. , Officials are appealing for every boat that can be sent to Paris. A crowd sacked some food shops. The Czar has given £1000, and the Popo £1200. A great dyke at Gennevilliers burst, anl flooded a large area, imprisoning 7000 people in their homes.

The Boucicaut Hospital was hastily evacuated. Engineers constructed & footbridge, and carried the women patients with difficulty across the water, which was five feet deep. Sonio of the patients did not survive Iho shock.

Boats are being used for funerals. The Bourse is agitated, and theie has been a heavy fall in stocks.