APPALLING COLLISION
RECENT TRAGEDY IN FRANCE. (Renter's Telecram.) (Received November 9, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, November 6. The latest estimates of the casualties in connection with the collision of tho Simplon express is sixtv killed and over a hundred injured. Dotails show that the Geneva express, travelling at fifty. five miles an hour, crashed into the stationary Simplon express, steam obscuring the danger signal. The engine actually jumped over the dining-car and landed on top of the sleeping-car, which was crushed to matchwood. Boiling ■team scalded the victims and rescuers. One of the victims of the disaster possessed silver coins having a face value of 600 francs. It would be worth 10,000 francs acrosa the frontier. A message received in Parts stated that the Simplon express collided with a. Geneva train near Sens. Thirty were killed and 100 injured. The disaster was due to a faulty signal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10432, 10 November 1919, Page 5
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