MIGHT LOSE JOBS
WHY FRENCH RAILWAY MISHAPS WERE NOT REPORTED TERRIBLE DISASTER AVERTED ON NOVEMBER 24 t U.P.A. by Elec. Tel, Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 28. The News-Chronicle’s- Paris correspondent says . I that Cbarpent;er, fireman of the) Strasburg train, after telling the Lagnv official inquiry that for the past IS months both he and Daudigny had frequented reported signal failures. said h;s colleagues were nfraicl to report certain hapenings for fear of losing their jobs °i', getting into bad books. It is now revealed tliat Daubigny saved the Strasbourg express from a terrible disaster on November 24, when a 'tyre on one of the engines wheels became detached He succeeded in stopping the train from a high speed in two minutes without derail ing it. When the passengers realised what had happened they passed round the hat for him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 5
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