DRAMATIC DISASTER.
TROOP TRAIN WRECKED FALL INTO DESERT RAVINE. •FATALITIES TOTAL 120. MEMBERS OF FOREIGN LEGION. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 0 a.m.) . LONDON, September 14. A message from Oram, Algeria, states that owing to a, subsidence in a railway track, a troop train carrying 510 members of the Foreign Legion crashed into a ravine at Tremcen. One hundred and twenty men were killed and 150 injured. The train, consisting of 31 coaches, is lying in an indescribable heap at the bottom of the ravine, which is 270 •feet deep and is in an inaccessible part of the desert. Relief was organised and a special train brought back to Tremcen the first batch of injured. The guard had a miraculous escape. He leaned from a window and saw that the train was falling. He leapt out and rolled to the bottom of the ravine, being only slightly hurt. Then he ran to Tremcen to procure assistance.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1932, Page 5
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