EXPRESS DERAILED
FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER. EIGHT KILLED, 30 INJURED. DELIBERATE ACT INDICATED. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, June 1. At Montreau, eight were killed and 30 injured when the Paris-Marseilles express was derailed. The four leading coaches were smashed to pieces. The rescuers were obliged to _ saw through the metal roofs to extricate the bodies. . The disaster was caused by a small truck, which the Minister of Public Works, after inauiry, considers was deliberately placed on the line. The derailment occurred when the express was travelling at a rate of ol) miles an hour.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 196, 2 June 1930, Page 5
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