PUBLIC ALARMED

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18463, 18 August 1925, Page 9

PUBLIC ALARMED

joll of railways. I XAlrt DISASTERS IN FRANCE. \\) puLt ENQUIRY demanded. ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHT.) P* AND SZ. CABLE ASSO< lATIOH.) (ingrww" *- (BeceiveJ August 17th, 0.5 p.m.) PARTS, August 17. »*. express from tho fashion,iblo rett 0 f Dcauville had reached Nantes tea the last coach, containing many I'*h visitors, was discovered to be I fa owing to over-heating of the j ffjj o coach was taken o£E in the 2" of timo and the passengers transtwelvo railway accidents in ..Jjteefl da)" 3, with a to '' 33 killed WO injured, it is not _ surprising tbit tho travelling public is alarmed demanding a thorough inveetigathe whole f ystem of gigtwllins ffjjgt of carriages on third-rlass trains, continued gas lighting in some frflltll. TJ» Miniver of Public Works has made recommendations to the Government as a result of enquiries into tbo recent disaster. another smash. FOUR COACHES DERAILED. Six PASSENGERS INJURED. to C4JLI—PBBSS ASSncUTSON—COPiaiOHT.) (aii-m's rtua&JUiß.) . PABIS, August 16. Tbb action of a signalman at Pontoi«9, in accidentally changing the points while u .train was passing over, it (jjlieved to have been the reason for Mt&e? accident at Pontoise station, reciting jn the derailing of four eoiches. . . Six passengers were injured, but not Thesiflpmlman has been arrested. [TJiis is tho third train wreck reported fWltt IVance Bince Thursday. Tho flrrt'WM at Amiens, the Paris express btin* derailed and overturned at the jtawfoi 11 persons being killer! and over 400 injured. The second accident it S»int-Denis on Saturday, a traltf flw® Lille colliding with the expfeßßfrdta v Cologne, killing one passenger'4l4 ifljnring 60.] AIMGNS TRAIN TRAGEDY. H&K9 BRITISHERS INJURED. ; n.z. cable association.) J f 1 LONDON, August 16. , (fclj&titoee.Britishers aro mentioned in. connexion "with' the Amiens tragedy, . r'a Glasgow man and. two Putney girls : who are among the injured. ft" -