60 PASSENGERS GASSED.
FRENCH TRATN RUNS TNTO ARMY) POISON TANK. il PARIS, Jan. 2. ' As the result of an . extraordinary, 1 accident passengers m a train between i Lyons and I , ' St. Etienno havo been the; victims of asphyxiatmcr gas. The train ran into a large cylinder of chlorine: which, had fallen .from a goods waggon,' and, getting out' on the line when the train, stoppied. the, passengers were, en,-, velop-od m [poisonous fumes. ..The.-. accident happened m open coun r; try, and doctors sent from Lyons found--60 persons m a state of collapse. They; have been removed! to hospitals at Lyons, and' Givors.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 5
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10460 PASSENGERS GASSED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 5
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