APPALLING TRAIN WRECK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 7

APPALLING TRAIN WRECK.

DISASTER TO MARSEILLES EXPRESS.

VICTIMS INCINERATED.

ENGLISH MAILS DESTROYED,

By Tciegrnph—Pres3 Association—Copyright Paris, November 5. file Marseilles express collided with the mail train at Molun. Sovcn carriages of the latter wore completely smashed. Tho wreckage eaught fire immediately, and' prevented tho rescuo of the victims. • Twelve persons are known to bo killed, but it is feared that the death roll will reach fifty. q Tho driver of t!he express has been arrested.

(Rec. November 6, 0.10 a.m.)

Hie passengers on the wrecked train were mostly Dutch. Several moro bodies have been recovered, including that of Captain Amic, whose wifo is still pinned in the wreckage. Many of the injured are now in the iiosprfcjil.

Dumaine, the driver of tho Marseilles train, who was slightly injured, was travelling at ninety Kilometres an hour (about 56 miles an hour), through \ Ho declares that lie saw the line cleared. His fireman was not injured.

Owing to a mistake a searchlight was omitted from the rescue outfit, and for hours the resellers worked by tho fitful glare of tho burning wreckage and a few handlights. Fourteen bodies were recovered by two o'clock, mostly postal employees. Of sixty-five postal olhcials, twenty-one are missing. Tho wreckage is still burning. Tho screams of tho injured can be heard, and passengers can bo seon tinder tho wreckage. The wife of an officer who was on board the train maintained her courage for several hours, but is now pitifully imploring tho rescuers to save him from the flames.

Tho English mails for India and tho East wero burnt.

The driver of the Marseilles train jumped, from tho ongine at the moment of tho collision, and escaped with injuries. He _ was arrested for overrunning tho signal protecting tho postal train.