What transpires when newspaper headlines proclaim the "Great Canal Crash" to readers around the world?

A number of events transpire when newspaper headlines proclaim the "Great Canal Crash" to readers around the world. The Compagnie Universelle is ordered into receivership. There are demonstrations of popular support staged around France. It is announced that major contractors will continue with essential operations on credit. This is to avoid having machinery become ruined and harm come to the excavation. A liquidator is also appointed on February 4, 1889, thus ending the Compagnie Universelle.