RAILWAY DISASTER

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1927, Page 3

RAILWAY DISASTER

MANY CASUALTIES. (Australian t fe N.Z. Cable Association.) PARTS, Aug. 25. A train, consisting of an engine and a carriage containing fifty tourists was descending the steep track and pinion railway to Chnmounix, on the world famous Mer de Glace line, which is patronised by thousands of tourists, when the train was derailed and the occupants were precipitated fifty feet into a ravine. LONDON, Aug. 25. The Daily Mail says: There were many Dutch tourists aboard the Mer de Glace train. Sor far, no British victims have been mentioned. The bodies of children were found umong the wreckage. A failure of the brakes was responsible for the accident. Regarding the Clmmounix accident, the latest reports states that sixteen were killed and seventy were injured. It is believed that three Britishers were injured. Some of tho bodies could not he identified, so badly were they mutilated. The alertness of a passenger, who seized the brakes and brought the remaining coaches to a standstill on the edge of the precipice, prevented a worse disaster. The rescuers were lowered into the vallev by-Topes. *1- PARTS, Aug. 26. Advices from Clianiounix state that three of the injured have died, making tho death roll eighteen. SEVEN OAKS DISASTER. LONDON, Aug. 20. It is officially announced that twelve are dead and forty-eight were injured in the railway smash nt Seven Oaks. The Railway Company says the speed of tho train was 57 miles an hour.