TRAIN DISASTER
Fifty Killed in French Derailment POINTS WRONGLY SET (Received 31, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 30. Thirty were killed and several injured when the Paris — St. Etieime express was derailed at Villeneuve St. Georges, just outside Paris, at 11.15 last uight. The first four coaches of the express were smashed to smithereens. f The train was crowded with holldaymakers and pilgrims returning frotn .Lisieux. The engine overturned at 50 miles an hour outside a doctor's gard9n, in which the dead were placed and the injured given first-aid. It is officially announced that the disaster was due to the poiuts being wrongly set.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 5
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