TWO TRAINS COLLIDE.
ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. WAGGONS OUT OF CONTROL. THREE ATTENDANTS KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. , (Received 1 a.m.) SlI1 ,; PARIS, Dec. 15. When a goods train was ascending a grade near St. Quentin a coupling broke and forty trucks started uncontrolled downhill. They met a following goods train in a fog and . a collision occurred. Trucks were heaped on both sides of the line. A third train arriving on a parallel track smashed into the wreckage, killing three and injuring one. The victims were train attendants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 14
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