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TRAINS IN COLLISION.
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. (Received May 20. 1 p.m.) PARIS, May 19. A mistake by a signalman resulted in a collision at Mercadet bridge. Three coaches of the Pontoise train were wrecked, and eleven persons killed. Their limbs were terribly mangled. In one instance the victim's head was reduced to a pulp. A young woman saw her husband decapitated. Twenty-nine persons were injured. •
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 20 May 1912, Page 7
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68TRAINS IN COLLISION. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 20 May 1912, Page 7
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