Paris in Flood Crisis Worsens as Deaths Rise and Relief Mobilizes
The Paris flood disaster mounts with $200,000,000 estimates and thousands feared dead. Refugees swarm Ivry, sermons of doom mix with calls for aid as half the city quays flood. Rumors of Paris downfall swirl among the displaced while rail, telegraph, and gas services fail.
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Paris
Halley
Red Cross
Foreign Office
Palais d'Orsay
Continental
Gare St. Lazare
Paris Debates Extend Time for Commercial Paper
At a conference between Chamber of Commerce officials Mr Cochery and Mr Depuy ministers of finance and commerce it was decided to ask Parliament for an extension of time for commercial paper due to general business disorganization. Paris faces oil famine after gas and electric lighting plant failures as scores of oil barges gather.
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Brun
Hotel de Ville
Pont Des Arts
Pont de Selferino
France
Paris
Rue Royale
Place de la Concorde
Javel
Pont de Bercy
Louvre Museum
Pont Des Sts. Peres
Seine
Pont d’Alma
Chamber of Commerce
Venice Unharmed After Tidal Wave Rumor
Venice reports no flood or damage after recent storms. The rumor of a tidal wave was unfounded, with only canal levels rising from rain and storms affecting other areas less than Venice.
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Venice
Tiber Rises 40 Feet Floods Italy Amid Storms
Rome reports a violent storm with the Tiber rising forty feet causing widespread flooding and damage. Many trees and walls toppled, boats driven ashore, and a steamer carrying the Duke and Duchess of Connaught delayed at Naples. Earthquakes also reported in the south.
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Rome
Italy
Tiber
Mediterranean
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
Naples
Near D O'Donnell Rescued From Wheat Pit in Portland
Workmen aboard the Dominion liner Dominion in Portland Maine dug out Thomas O'Donnell buried under four feet of wheat in No 7 hatch after being caught during unloading. He appeared dead, revived after about 30 minutes and was reported recovering at home later in the day.
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Portland
Dominion Line
Dominion
Hatch
Thomas O’donnell
Fairbanks Arrives in Naples for Lincoln Birthday Event
Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks reached Naples from Constantinople today and has been invited to speak at Rome on February 12 for Lincoln's birthday anniversary observances.
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New England
Naples
Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
Constantinople
Fairbanks
Rome
Lincoln
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Rouen
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Plaisance
Gers
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Charenton
Pantheon
St. Sulphire Seminary
Dunkirk
Havre
Cherbourg
Longchamps
Bois de Boulogne
Dalsein
Switzerland
Spanish Peninsula
Champs Elysees
Tuileries Gardens
Administration of Colonies
Norman Photo Company
Boston
Washington Street
Cor
Boylston Street
Cy Hoskins
Talbot’s
A. M. Hoxie
Bunton Park
East
Milton, Mass
Holeproof
Clothiers
Wolf's
My Clothier
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Hanover
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