FRENCH TRAIN SMASH
FIVE KILLED—23 INJURED. (Reuter.) (Received to-dav at 1 p.m.) _ FARIS, March 25. An engine and seven coaches of .the Bordeaux-Paris express were derailed at two o’clock this morning near Poitiers. Two coaches! mounted the cutting and two fell into the river, hive s persons were killed and twenty-three injured. _ Senator Pedebidou was among the i killed. The accident was due to the breakage of a. coupling- As the train reached Ihe viaduct over a narrow, deep river, the leading carriage, which was exclusively first class, toppled over the „ viaduct and crashed ocross the river. ° Two carriages tell on top of it. The 0 passengers in the first carriage were '* extricated with difficulty from the ° wreckage, into which the river was ■” pouring. A party of soldiers from dis- *' ci n Unary regiments in Morocco were 1_ aboard the train. They'' performed >f most helpful rescue work, carrying out the passengers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 March 1925, Page 7
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