BREST COLLISION.
« .! TWENTY PERSONS KILLEDBy Teleiraph-Prcss Assoclatloh-Copyrichi. Paris, February 15. v ; TIIO Brest express was travelling at a speed of fifty-tliroo miles an hour when it (Jaslied into tho goods train. Five trucks wero telescoped. Twenty persons were killed. Twelve bodies hive been recovered. Sixty were ihjured. * Owing to tho explosion of the gasoline tank seven persons were burned to death in a few minutes. The driver of Ihe express failed to sco tho signals owing to tho wind blowing smoke into his eyes. Nineteen passengers in tho .iiu : rgcfir escapcd with cuts from broken .:rocksry and glass. An express from Nogent-leßjtrou to Paris ran into tho wreckage, hut the engine only was derailed.
ANOTHER SMASH. Paris, February I."-. Another railway smash occurred at Bethuhe, in tho department of Pas de Calais, where two workmen's trains collided. Two persons were killed and twenty injured.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 5
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144BREST COLLISION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 5
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