LOURDES TRAIN SMASH
HEAVY DEATH ROLL;' , SEVERAL PERSONS INCINERATED, ; Press Association—B j Telegraph—Copyright : j PARIS, Angnst JLil It is feared that the Lourdes pilgrim train death roll is heavier than that given in the early estimates. Both trains,-'wer* full of passengers. One had almost negotiated a steep incline, when the couplings broke. The rear part of the train ( ran / away and collided with the ttain which . was following. It telescoped the carriage* : and derailed the engine and ,a number of coaches of the second train. The im- /‘.I pact smashed the gas reservoir andvtho '■'* lamps, and. the woodwork caught-.firW-rr-* - A number of passengers were ’burnt to X death, and others were killed while Jeon* ing from the windows of the runaway; f! carriages.—A. N.Z. Cable. ' . ‘ |
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18624, 4 August 1922, Page 5
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