TRAIN DISASTER
LAGNY INQUIRY
DISCLOSURES IN EVIDENCE
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(Received 1 this clay at 8.5 p.m.) PARIS, December 28
At the Lagny inquiry Charpentiere said his colleagues were afraid to report certain happenings for fear of losing their jobs, or getting into the bad books. It is now revealed that Daubigny saved the Strasbourg express from it terrible disaster on November 24, When the tyre on one of the engine wheels became detached, he succeeded in stopping the train in two minutes without derailing it.
When passengers realised what had happened they passed round the hat for him.
KING’S SYMPATHY WITH FRANCE
PREVIOUS COMPLAINTS IGNORED
RUGBY, December 27
The following telegram was addressed by the King to President lo Bruli: “I am very distressed ahd shocked to hear that'tile railway accident at Lagny resulted in such heavy loss of life, and such grevious suffering. I would ask you to accept ou behalf of the French nation, the expression of my heartfelt sympathy at the terrible disaster which cast a shadow over the Christmas season.” The “News Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says: Chnrpentier, the fireman, told the Lagny official inquiry that during the past eighteen months both he and Daubigny had frequently reported signal failures, but their reports had not even been acknowledged.
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