TRAIN DERAILED
SCENES OF HORROR AT NAMUR. HEAVY TOLL OF LIFE. (United Press Association—By UableCopyright.) (Received 11, 10.15 a.m.) Paris, December 10. A Namur message states that failure of the brakes when descending a steep bank near the station derailed a passenger train. Four carriages were telescoped. There were scenes of horror, and rescue work was very difficult. It is believed that a dozen were killed and 75 injured. The carriages were crowded, manypeople standing. The train was speeding at 60 miles an hour, when the derailment turned the engine completely round, crumbling three carriages, the others remaining vertical. Rescuers, aided by the fire brigade and special cranes from Brussels, wrestled for three hours, cutting through the metal plates. The dead were terribly mutilated.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 305, 11 December 1929, Page 7
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