A HOLOCAUST.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 967, 13 August 1903, Page 3

A HOLOCAUST.

FIRE AND TRAIN .COLLISION.

A’ HUNDRED DEATHS

HEARTRENDING SCENES

®7j .Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, PARIS, Aug. 11. 5A’ fire originated in an electric locomotive near Meniimontant, on the Paris underground railway. / The carriages ignited, and then three other trains ran into the conflagration. The tunnel became choked with smoke. There were one hundred deaths, most of the victims being asphyxiated.

Heart - rending scenes occurred when the bodies were brought- to tho morgue lor identification.

SHOCKING NEGLIGENCE,

MALTREATING A GUARD WHO GIVES WARNING. 'PEOPLE WANT THEIR MONEY BACK. By Telegraph—Press \seoolation—Copyright Received 12.5 a.m., Aug, 13. Paris, Aug. 12. Seventy-three bodies, mostly of the working classes, have been identified in tho •train. There are many faces quite black. Some boar traces of pain. • Numerous messages of sympathy have been received, including one from King Edward. The funerals will be at the city’s expense. The wreckage presents a mass of twisted iron, melted window panes, broken and fused elootrio wires. Parisians are indignant at the neglect of 'the officials in -merely extinguishing the 'original fire with hand grenades, and 'transferring the passengers to a train 'Standing near. They wore using the -second train when a further breakdown occurred while passing the first train. ‘The passengers in the meanwhile were transferred to a third, containing 850 people. The three trains ran along together, finally coming to a standstill at Courrannes statiofi, which is between Belleville and Bastille. As the smoke increased the Guard urged the passengers to escape. They, not being -aware of the danger, refused to act 6n the warning, demanded tho repayment of their I fare, assaulted the Guard, and blocked I the way of tho occupants of the roar I carriages. During the dispute the eleotrio light I failed. I The majority of the bodies were found * on tho Courrannes platform. I Others were saved by their presence of I mind, knowing that by the light being out that the eleotrio ourrent had been out. I , They walked along the rails to Belleville. I A fresh but similar fire occurred at an- I other part of the line last night, but was extinguished. I