EIGHT BODIES FOUND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9

EIGHT BODIES FOUND

ENGLISH BOY'S FORTITUDE

TASK OF EXTRICATION

(Received 21st March r 1 p.m.) PABIS, 2l)th March. Many passengers in the Paris-Bor-deaux express perceived an ill omen in the death by heart failure aboard the train, prior to the accident, of a fellowpassenger, Madame Colin. | The train lore on half a mile before I the driver and the majority of Ilio |>asUe tigers realised that there had been an accident owing to the bumping on the ballast of the third car which was derailed. Eight bodies have been recovered. Forty passengers were- injured and others aro believed to be missing. The dining-car waiter's cry, "Lie down," probably saved many lives. The most difficult task was the extrication of five persons jammed in the telescoped concertina passage between the diner and the adjoining car. An English boy, aged eleven, stoically endured two hours' agony while the workmen cut away the hampering steelwork with acetylene torches. M. Michaudi, on his honeymoon, was found dead among the smashed crockery. His bride was seriously injured. The English victim, Frank Hatcher "Weetman, was a middle-aged man, whoso inseparable companion, his brother "Walter, was unhurt.