TRAGEDY ON RAILWAY.
EIGHT LIVES LOST.
FRENCH EXPRESS DERAILED
jOUR COACHES WRECKED.
WANTON ACT SUSPECTED
'TRUCK on the line
Hf Teteernph-P-". (Receive 1 June 2. 11.15 n.m.) June 1 Ad express train bound from Paris to Marseilles was derailed at Montreal! and lff ht people were killed,and 13 injured f mr loadinc coaches were smashed to pieces and rescuers were obliged to saw through the m-'tal roofs in order to extrifl.te the dead ind injured. The accident was caused by n small tmck wh'ch the Minister of Public Works, after ar. innuirv. considers was deliberately placed on the line The derailment occurred when the express was travelling 8 t o speed of 50 miles an hour. Tlje fact that tho Premier, M. Tardieu, ff as travelling to Dijon to address 1500 guests at a luncheon at first led to the belief that tho disaster was due to a desire to wreck his train It is still believed (hat the truck was purposely placed on tho line, but as M. Tardieu's train had passed the spot three and a-half hours before the suspicion that the Premier was an intended victim has been abandoned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20580, 3 June 1930, Page 9
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192TRAGEDY ON RAILWAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20580, 3 June 1930, Page 9
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