RAILWAY CATASTROPHE.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
TRAGIC COLLISION NEAR PARIS
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
HORRIBLE DETAILS
(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Paris, July 27.
An excursion and a goods train came into collision at St Maude, near Paris. The carriages caught fire, and a frightfnl scene ensued. _ _ Sixty people were killed outright in the collision, and several others who were unable to extricate themselves from the ruins were caught by the flames and burnt to death.
Many charred remains, quite unrecognisable, have been recovered from the debris of the railway accident at St Maude. A few of those who were on the tram were drowned by being thrown into the river.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1013, 31 July 1891, Page 31
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