TROOP TRAIN DERAILED.
DISASTER IN FRANCE. 16 KILLED, 3O INJURES. (Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.) PARIS, September 19. By the fall of a troop train over a viaduct near Villeneuve-de-Loubei, yester- a day, 16 men were killed and 30 injured, o The train consisted of three passenger t coaches. b The failure of the brakes caused the r front of the engine to leave the rails, x and it struck the parapet, swung round, and hurled the passenger coaches into a 1 wooded ravine 50ft below. The bottom of the declivity oau be t gained only by going down a steep, t narrow, winding path, now almost impassable owing to the heavy rain. The r carriages lie embedded at the foot in mud, which is over a foot deep.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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