[?]RENCH DISASTER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 5

[?]RENCH DISASTER

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\tli roll approaches TWO HUNDRED WITH many injured 3NES KEMISCENT OF WAR

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Bec. Dec. 25, 6.30 p.nn •- Paris, Dec. 24. > vorst railway mishap f or many occurred at Lagny ten miles Paris. There are at least 135 and 80 injured. The confusion greafc that the full toll may not :ertained for hours. > disaster occurred yesterday ig, shortly after 8 o'cloek. The involved were crowded with y-makers. One train left Paris fterwards. crashed into the rear 3 front train when the latter ,(1. The noise of the impaet ht helpers to the scene from a lerable distance.' Wood fires een liyhted at the side of the y track where the bodies were ng transport. Christmas preare scattered everywhere and i ljmbs mixed with the debris. lolice have arrested the driver ; express on a eharge of crashto a stationary train. The speed tor showed that the express was ling at 65 miles an hour at the >f the accident. lirector of the company stated he frost and fog was the cause e catastrophe. The driver of lcoming express could not see gnals nor liear the fog warni latest estimate of the dead is Apparently there are no Engictims. Ahout 250 are injurThe scene recalled the worst of the war when wounded soldrrived from the front. sailor named Jean Ancel, was ero of the tragedy. He led a of rescurers and worked unigly for twelve hours removing age. He personally saved 13 further disaster was narrowly id when the driver of another 5S, mistaking the red lights for , had a presentment of disaster, ;d behind him and saw the red and immediately applied the 3 100 yards from the wrecked