FRENCH RAILWAY DISASTER.
SIXTY KILLED. (By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Reuter’s Telegrams.} • PARIS, Nov. 6. The' latest estimates of the casualties in comieotion with the collision of the Simplon express ar e sixty killed and over 100 injured. show tliah tihe _ Geneva express travelling' at 55 niil-es svn hour crashed into the stationary Simplon express owing to &t earn obscuring the danger signal. . ■ , The engine actually .pimped over the fining car, and landed on top ol a sleeping car, which was crushed to matchwood- Boding steam scalded victims* and rescuers. On e of the victims of the railway disaster at Sens possessed silver com having a face value of 6000 francs. X would be worth 10,000 francs across the frontier.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 November 1919, Page 5
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118FRENCH RAILWAY DISASTER. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 November 1919, Page 5
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