FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED. WOUNDED UNATTENDED FOR SIX HOURS. United Press Association—Copyright Received August 26, 10.22 p.m. PARIS, August 26. The Bordeaux-Paris express collided with a goods engine shunting a mile from Contrag at 11p.m. Three carriages were reduced to matchwood . All the lamps were put out and the train was in darkness at the moment of tlio collision. Employes and workmen in tlio vicinity procured lights and extricated 150 passengers. Eleven, including five railway employes, were killed. Twenty were more or lees severely injured. .It was 6 o’clock before a doctor arrived on the scene and rendered first aid to the injured who had been lying on cushions since midnight, after
being carefully cared for by the rescuers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2169, 27 August 1907, Page 2
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121FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2169, 27 August 1907, Page 2
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