TRAIN DERAILED
WORK OF WRECKERS. ONLY THE DRIVER KILLED: (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 3, 9.20 a.m. PARIS, Sept. 2. The engine and five coaches of the Bordeaux express were derailed near Tours. No deaths are reported except tho driver, who was buried in the debris. The accident was due to a deliberate attempt to wreck the express, the rails being loosened from tlie sleepers. The train was travelling at 60 miles an hour.—A. and N.Z. cabe. ENGINE OVERTURNED. CRASH INTO BUFFER STOP. Received September 3, 1.10 p.m. PARIS, Sept. ._ The accident to the passenger train from Toulouse to Bordeaux caused a train to be switched to a siding, where it crashed into a buffer stop, the engine being overturned. —A. and N.Z. cable. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. HOURS NEAR LIME KILN. NEW ZEALANDER IN ENGLAND. Received September 3, 2.46 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 2. Mr C. H. Wyatt, a son of tlie pastor of St. Clement’s, Auckland, was picked up unconscious at an old lime kiln at Porteynon, Swansea. He was climbing up a cliff, a short cut to his home, when he slipped and injured a leg. He crawled 300 yards before he collapsed. Hours later he was taken to hospital, where he is recovering. He was three times wounded during tho war and has a wife and two children in New Zealand. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 10
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