HOLIDAY=MAKERS KILLED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 896, 16 August 1910, Page 7

HOLIDAY=MAKERS KILLED.

■ • ■ RAILWAY COLLISION. ANOTHER DISASTER IN FRANCE. MANY GIRLS INJURED. By Telegraph-Press Association-CopyrieM. Paris, August 14. On Sunday an excursion train from Bordeaux, with 1100 passengers, dashed into a goods train while travelling at the rato of forty miles un hour. Tho two front carriages of the excursion train, in which wero thirty-two' young ladies from a boarding school, were reduced to splinters. ■ Six other carriages were telescoped. Fifty-five persons were seriously injured. HOW THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. (Rec. August 15, 9 p.m.) Paris, August 15. Tho goods train, which was coming from Royan, on the north side of the Gironde, overran signals at Saujon, where the double line becomes a single one. It caught the excursion train just as it was passing the points. The collision came with a cannon-like sound, and a terrible panic occurred among the passengers upon the Saujon Station platform.

The excursionists included many men en route to the Royan races,- arid there was also one carriage of girls from a Bordeaux religious association, who were going >to Royan 1 to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. Eight of, the girls' wero killed, and others were terribly injured. • Four carriages were full of school girls .from Barsac who were going for a day on the seashore. Six of the children were .Killed: Seven hours were occupied in removing the .thirty-seven bodies of the dead, which were laid in rows.