SIMPLON EXPRESS DISASTER
, SIXTY PEOPLE KILLED. (Rec. TCoveinber 9, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, November 6. The latest estimates of casualties in connection with the collision of the Simplon express are sixty killed and over a hunored injured. Details show that tho Geneva express, travelling at 55 miles an hour, crashed into a stationary Simplon express, steam obscuring the danger signal. The engine actually jumped over a dining-car, and landed on top of a sleeping car, which was crushed to matchwood. Boiling steam scalded victims, and rescuers.—Reuter. ■ Paris, November 6. One of the victims of the disaster possessed silver coin having a face value of six thousand' francs. It would be worth ten thousand francs across the frontier. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.|
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 November 1919, Page 5
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119SIMPLON EXPRESS DISASTER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 November 1919, Page 5
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