FRENCH TRAIN WRECK.
EXPRESS IN COLLISION.
SIX FATALITIES RESULT.
STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright A. and N.Z. PARIS, Sept. 23,
A remarkable railway disaster occur red at Fontainebleau.
An express train ran into some stationary carriages which had broken away from an earlier train on the same line.
Six people were killed and 12 others were seriously injured. The driver and the stoker of the express were pinned beneath the wreckage, on which water was pumped to prevent them from being scalded by the escaping steam.
Tho front portion of the first train consisted of coaches from Marseilles and the back portion of coaches from Switzerland. They had been joined up at Dijon.
The collision occurred in a thick mist. The driver of tho first train was aware of the broken coupling, but he decided to go on and leave the front portion of the train on tho siding and then to return and do the same with the back portion. He arrived back too late. Those killed include an American and those seriously injured include an Englishman and an Irishman.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19442, 25 September 1926, Page 11
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