TRAGIC TRAIN WRECK
DEATH-ROLL OF 120
FOREIGN LEGION VICTIMS
ACCIDENT IN ALGERIA CRASH INTO DEEP RAVINE By Tel<?grnph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 15. 5.55 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14 A message from Oran, Algeria, states that owing to a subsidence in a railway track, a troop train carrying 510 members of tho Foreign Legion crashed into a ravine at Tremcen. One hundred and twenty men were killed and 160 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. Belief was organised and a special train brought back to Tremcen the first batch of the 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 Tan to Trerneen to procure assistance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21289, 16 September 1932, Page 11
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