25 DEAD, 50 INJURED
CARRIAGES TELESCOPED
PARIS, July 30.
Twenty-five persons were killed and 50 injured when the Paris-Saint Etienne express was derailed at Villeneuve Saint Georges, just outside Paris, at 11.15 last night.
The first four coaches of the express were smashed to smithereens.
The train was crowded with holidaymakers and pilgrims returning from Lisieux. It is believed that the points jammed and the engine overturned, travelling at 50 miles an 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.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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