MOTOR-BUS FALLS IN THE SEINE.
SIXTEEN PERSONS DROWNED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Paris, September 27. A motor-bus of a new pattern with no outside seats, while crossing the Pont do d'Archoveche at Paris, swerved, demolished the parapet, arid fell into tho Seine. At the moment of skidding some of tho occupants saved themselves by jumping through the open windows, others on the, outside platform scrambling on tho roof. Abbo Richard, of Belley, was among thoso immersed.. A diver rescued, six persons from the omnibus"it the bottom of<tho' Seino;.- ... It is feared that sixteen persons have been drowned. Ten persons have been, taken to the- hospital. .
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1245, 29 September 1911, Page 5
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