FRENCH RAILWAY DISASTER
DRIVER AND ENGINEER HELD BY POLICE PARIS, February 21. The learner-driver and engineer of the engine which was involved in a crash with the Nancy-Dijon express on Friday night are being held by the police for “homicide by negligence.” The police allege that the driver passed a yellow warning signal. Sixteen more bodies have been found in the wreckage of the express which collided with the locomotive. This brings the deaths to 50.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25736, 23 February 1949, Page 5
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