FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER.
CARRIAGES PALL INTO RAVINE.
PITIFUL SCENES. Prea Am—-By Telegraph—Copyright Received 6.10 p. m. Paris, Sept 18. Sixteen were killed and thirty injured in the French troop train accident! on a viaduct at Yillenenve Lou bet. The train consisted of three passenger carriages and two motor ooaches. The failure of the brakes caused the front motor coach to leave the rails. It struck a parapet and swang round and hurled the passenger coaches into a woo led ravine, fifty feet below. The bottom «f the declivity was only reachable d >wn a steep narrow winding pat!*, almost impassable owing to heavy rain. Tne carriages were embedded in the mad, a foot deep
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2030, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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114FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER. Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2030, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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