DEATH-ROLL OF 25
French Train Derailment (Received July 31, 1 a.m.) Paris, July 30. The official death-roll in the French train disaster is 25 killed and 50 injured. It was a derailment and not a collision as previously reported. The train was crowded with holidaymakers and pilgrims returning from Lisieux. It is believed the t points jammed and the engine overturned, travelling at 50 miles X"; hour, outside a doctor’s garden, in which the dead were placed and the injured attended to.. Wooden carriages were telescoped between steel cars. Half the Paris fire brigades helped in the rescue work, troops from nearby barracks assisting. Two pointsmen have been charged with involuntary homicide and a breach of the railway regulations. (Earlier message on page 11.)
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 15
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