THE STORM IN PARIS AND IN THE PROVINCES

Last night and during most of yesterday morning, the wind blew in a storm over Paris and the Paris region. A chestnut tree in the Tuileries Gardens, one of the most beautiful and oldest, was uprooted and fell to the ground. Fortunately, there were no accidents to anyone, despite many falling fences and chimneys torn off by the squall. In the streets, there were, at every moment, passers-by running after their headgear that the wind had knocked off and to which it gave a dizzying rotational movement.
The capital of a chimney that fell from a building, 21, rue du Quatre-Septembre, injured the hand of a passer-by, Mr. Parnin, aged seventy-four, living at 20, rue Antoinette.

IN THE SUBURBS

In Courbevoie, telephone wires fell on Rue de l'Alma; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a tree was laid on the sidewalk in front of No. 65 Avenue de Villiers, blocking the entrance to a factory; in Puteaux, a trolley pole was knocked over on Quai National, at the corner of Boulevard Richard-Wallace. Fortunately, there were no accidents involving people.

In Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on the terrace and in the forest, the wind broke countless tree branches. On the road to Versailles, about fifty telegraph and telephone lines were broken.

In Rambouillet, a young woman, Mrs. Cordier, was seriously injured by a falling tile. The town is without electricity. Most of the roads in the forest are blocked by felled trees.

IN THE DEPARTMENTS

LE HAVRE, October 8. A violent storm from the west caused significant damage along the coast and in the Seine estuary. About sixty cabins were carried away by the waves. Attempts are currently being made to dismantle the others in order to save them.
Roofs are falling and trees are being uprooted everywhere. Public gardens are closed; the boat service from Honfleur and Trouville is stopped. The liner Paris, battered by the storm, was still able to enter the floating dock. The large floating bridge was damaged. In the tidal basin, several fishing boats sank after dragging their anchors.
The Normandia, from Southampton, had to wait for four hours in the harbor before returning to the port. A barge loaded with provisions for the Paris was sunk and a cabin boy thrown into the sea. In the city, almost everywhere, electric wires were broken.

In Calvados

CAEN, October 8. The damage caused by the storm is significant. The electrical network is damaged in many places. Trees felled on the roads have hindered the circulation of the Mondeville tramways and the outlying districts are without light. Only one person was injured, Mr. Ernest, a Barbier, living in La Folie. was hit in the head by a tile. The stained glass windows of the Saint-Pierre church in Caen were broken in several places and the floor of the nave is strewn with broken glass.
But it is in the countryside that the damage is greatest: the straw stacks have, in various places, been scattered by the wind.

IN BRITTANY

SAINT-MALO. October 8. Last night, several Newfoundland boats returning from the banks with their cargo, and which were anchored in the harbor, dragged their moorings. One of them, the Vagabonde, from Binic, coming to deliver its bag here, ran aground between the Grand and Petit Bé. It is thought that it will be possible to refloat it at high tide.
BREST, October 8. Hundred-year-old trees have been broken and many roofs have been removed. Several boats in the port dragged their anchors and the warships had to double up their moorings.

LORIENT, October 8. A violent cyclone raged last night on the coast of Brittany and lasted until three o'clock in the morning. The ships dragged their anchors in the harbor and disasters are feared offshore. The trawler Saint-Guenael picked up, one hundred miles from Ouessant, a large English motor barge, the K-14, from London, which had been abandoned by its crew.
Because of the storm, the large state oil tanker Rhône had to interrupt its trials.
A boat manned by four men capsized near Pointe Saint-Mathieu. The skipper, Mr. Le Roux, his son and another sailor drowned.