TRAIN DISASTER
PLUNGED INTO RAVINE
ACCIDENT TO EXPRESS,
DIFFICULT RESCUE WORK.
BY CABLE—PEES 3 ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT. PARIS, July 31. Further details have been received regarding to the accident to an express train at Touts. The night express front Rouen, which was travelling at isixty milleis an hour instead ol the scheduled thirty males, was derailed. The train ploughed along the line for a hundred yards and plunged into a ravine twenty feet- deep. The dead and injured were buried under the debris and took many hours to extricate.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 August 1925, Page 5
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