Trains Collide.
IN FRENCH RAILWAY TUNNEL. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PARIS, Oct. 5. Two local trains collided in the Batigolles Tunnel, near Paris. Fifteen persons are known to have been killed. More than, one hundred were in--hired.
Th* gas reservoirs beneath carriages exploded, causing the coaches to take lire, and the tunnel became an inferno. It was filled with smoke and flames. It is believed that there are many more dead beneath the burning debris. Firemen made frantic attempts to reach the injured. They were afraid to pump water into the blazing tunnel lest they should drown the maimed victims. For more than an hour they could only leave the fire to burn itself out.
Masks were ultimately secured enabling the firemen to eaiter the tunnel and extinguish the flames.' The disaster was caused by the first train being held up by a broken coupling, and the second train following ran into it. In the railway disaster 75 injured persons have been recovered. Many are missing. There were more than 500 passengers on the trains. They wore principally workers, who were proceeding to their homes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1921, Page 2
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186Trains Collide. Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1921, Page 2
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