MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY
OFFICIAL INQUIRY HELD. BLAME LAID ON DRIVER. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, August 28. The official inquiry into the Chamounix disaster resulted in the blame being laid on the dead driver. Experts gave evidence that it appeared that he opened the steam regulator while on a steep slope, causing a sudden jerk, and consequently derailment. —A. and N.Z, and. Sydney Sun Cable. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. DRIVER LOST HIS HEAD. PARIS, August 29. (Received August 29, at 9 p.m.) The official report says that the aicident was due to the engine driver’s mistake. When ho reached the slope, instead of reversing the engine and thus braking her, ho turned the handle the wrong way. The train dashed off madly, and he thereupon lost his head, and turned on full steam. Nevertheless, there might not have been so many lives tost except for the trivia] incident of the door opening in the first carriage. The conductor, when trying to shut it. fell out, otherwise he would have been able to uncouple it and stop It, as did the conductor on the second car.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20190, 30 August 1927, Page 9
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