RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

FRENCH TROOP TRAIN FALLS INTO

A RAVINE.

CRASHES OVER A VIADUCT.

By Telegraph—Preaa Association—Copyright "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Reo. September 19, 6.10 p.m.) Paris, Sept-ember 19. Sixteen men wero killed and thirty were injured in an accident to n French troop train on a viaduct on the Ville-neuve-Loubot railway. Tho train consisted of three passenger and two motor coaohes. Tho failuro of tho brakes caused tho front motor to leave the rails. It struck tho parapet of the viaduct, was swung round, and hurled, tho passengor coaches into a wooded ravino fifty feet below.

The bottom of the declivity could only be reached down a steep, narrow winding path, almost impassable owing to heavy rain. The carriages were embedded in tihe mud a foot deep.

(Press Association.) OSTEND EXPRESS COLLIDES.

EVIDENCE OF A DRIVER. London, September 18. r At the inquest on the victims of the Aisgill (Yorkshire) _ railway disaster, the driver Caudie, in his evidence, said he had to choose between not watching the signals and allowing a shortage of water in tho boiler. If he had not attended to the boiler tho train would have stoppod, and 1 ho would have been discharged. THE AISCILL CATASTROPHE; TWENTY-ONE PERSONS INJURED. Paris, September 18. Tho Oatend egress smashed into a train at Courtrai, Flanders, owing to signalling error. Twenty-one persons were injured.