FORTY KILLED
FRENCH DISASTER TRAIN CRASHES OVER PARAPET. .Umted Press Association—By Ele'trie Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day .at 11 a.in.) PARiS, October 24. Forty were killed in the derailment of the Cherbourg-Raris expiesg near iContehes. The derailment is believed to be the .result of foul play. The express was crossing a viaduct over a small river, seventy miles from Paris, when it left the rails, while travelling at high speed. Tne engine tu.wier, guard’s van, .and three coaches crasiied over the parapet ■and fell thirty feet and were shattered to matchwood. The telegraph wires wore cut, and the line blocked. Ten bodies thus far have been recovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1933, Page 5
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