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'despatch from the thermometer ind and the: rel igh ome & city of slime filled with muddy waters. Business is almost at a standstill, and 'the hotels are crowded with], A persons who have fled from inun'lreported toh | dated homes. 4 y mobb terrible day in her history, aside from the crisis presented by war. -< 'Miles of her boulevards, one of Rhe city's chief points of pride; have been washed away; many of the most netable structures inithe oity, to see which travelers hive been wont te coma from the co¥ners of the earth, have already suffered heavy less and are in dangér of col- J 5 fifty 'thousand are homeless and mubsisting on scant provisions furnished by the city, indus- trial life of the city is completely suspended, and the one thenght in .. ¥he minds of the people is'the im- ence of a staggering éalamity amay yet come, if the Seine con- tinues te tite. 3 For ence Paris has been sohered. @ gay mood that permitted the people te look on the flood in its early stages as a spectacle for their entertainment has 'departed, and grim fear is now in the hearts of everyone, and is plainly written in the faces of all. : Every subway in Paris--and Parls has mere underground funnels of one sort 'and another, than any city in the world--is now flooded. This is the cause of the enormous damage, a damage that in Paris alone {a likely to run over $100,000, 00. These subterranean rivers ge caused the collapse of scores f styeets, and are respensible for water that now stands in vary- depths over nearly half of the eity. : Engineers declared on Thursday that if the waters immediately sub- side, 'it will take two years fo re- gair the damage done in Paris' un- erground world.' Police. and soldiers are literally driving hundreds of the poor from their homes: in the inundated seo- tions. Sceres of these houses have already tumbled in. Public halls, churches, school buildings, and even such magnifi- cont structures as the Pantheon are being converted inte refuges forthe poor. Through the co-operation of fe police, soldiers and Red Cross societies the thousands of destitute are being fairly well fed. Owing fo the scarcity of food, coffee and} olls are the principal items in the 0 Huge: coffee boi steaming on many of the street Hers. . Early "on. Thursday the police found a woman, driven insane by "the 'flood, and her five small chil dren almest frozen on the top of "tht Butte Chaumont in Park Hill: 'Her case is but typical of hundreds of others. provision for the thon Gr i have heen rendered abs [ Geo. Teos, Bereaved The prices of necessities are ad- vancing by 'leaps and bounds as) the paralysis of transportation fa- cilities entering the. city extends, Within the city there is practically ns means of transportation except by cabs and taxi-autos, the owners of which charge fabulous prices. FLOODS RECEDE © ¢ While the most imminent peril is over, the fall of the Seine since Sunday morning has only measur- ed 1534 inches. = Af this rate it would require a fortnight for the river to 'reach its "normal level. Fortunately, tidings from the flood- ed sections above Paris give hope of a more rapid subsidence. In the meantime, the situation in Paris and in many places throughont the: country, shows little improve- ment. . Indeed, the ravages of the flood within the city -seemed aobu- ally to increase on Sunday. The water was higher in' 'some. parts, while the situation at the inun- dated & towns Ng ag and 86. ermain- was distin graver, A 'stream of water 12 feet deep was rushing through Grennevillier- os and Colombes; making the work of rescue more difficult, Several of the houses-collapsed, and many persons were taken off the roofs of their homes, where they had been clinging for days. 2? y Hundreds are reported without food or shelter, and all day an army of troops and civilians worked in the flooded = territory distributing provisions by heats to the thou- sands of victims 'whe refused to quit their hemes. Brann EIGHT WERE KILLED, A Bad Wreck on on English Rail way Line. / A despatch: from London 'says: One of the most serious railway acs cidents in England since the disas- ter to the steamer train ab Balis- bury in July, 1908, occurred at Stoat's Nest Station, near London, on the London and Brighton Rail- way on Saturday afternoon. Eight dead and sbout thirty injured were Two third: of the building was demolished: Pullman was thrown violently the 'air, but was comparatively lit tle damaged. Its passengers es-|*% caped with minor injuries. ft bh d so