43 DIE IN TRAIN SMASH IN FRANCE: MANY OTHERS HURT
, PARIS, Feb. 20. Forty-three persons were killed and 150 injured when Die NancyDijon express collided with a single . locomotive near Port d’ Atelier on Friday night. i r ’ The first two coaches were hurled off the line and 20 persons pinned beneath wreckage could not. be moved ''Until heavy rescue gear arrived. Cranes lifted the smashed carriages C and a search for the bodies among the debris is continuing. A student engineer who was driving the locomotive which collided with the express has been arrested.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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