CRASH INTO RAVINE.
ACCIDENT TO TROOP TRAIN,
LONDON, Sept. 14. A message from Oran, Algeria, states that, owing to the subsidence of the track, a troop train, carrying 510 Foreign Legionaries, crashed in a ravine. Ono hundred men were killed and 100 were injured. The train, consisting of thirty-one coaches, is lying in an indescribable heap at the bottom of a ravine 270 feet deep at an inaccessible part of the desert. Relief is being organised. A special train took back to Tremein the first batch of injured.
A message received yesterday gave the number of killed as 50 and the number of injured as 80.
GUARD’S NARROW ESCAPE.
LONDON, Sept. 15. The latest estimate is that 120 are dead and 150 injured. The guard had a miraculous escape. He leaned from a window, saw the train falling, leapt out, and rolled to the bottom of the ravine. He was only slightly hurt and ran to Turenne to procure assistance.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 246, 16 September 1932, Page 7
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