TERRIFIC SPEED

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

TERRIFIC SPEED

WRECKAGE OF TRAIN Rec. 7.30 p.m.) Paris, Dec. 24. first train left Paris two hours wing to the fog and -!Lhe second ing almost immerliate, rammed ing throu'ih six eosjt'Si'Ss with terrific speed that its leading ge was turnod upside down and lpact tied into knots its 90 feet el girders ten inches wide. Th'e roll is now in the vicinity of The majority are unidentified. ead include Deputy Victor SchMayor of Verdun, M. Paul ex-under-secretary and Deputy Rolin. The last named died in d I ee Deputics, inclil ing M. God(vere seriously inj^' east one family p^-rished, nameparents of threC Children. The li? side Dy side in the mortut Gare De Lest, Paris, where lent Lebrun visited to testify to rsor.al grief. intense cold frost added to the kg of the injured and hampered ork of the rescuers. Among the was a quantity of new toys were conveyed homeward for olidays and also a numher of wned by victims going to the sports in the Alsatian Alps. iisters at the Lagny Hospital, caring for hundreds of victims fhout the night, were just as ' and patient to-day as when •deal hegan. One was followed orphan boy, who sesmed unable ve' Deputy Schleiter was ehair°f the Franco-Brit'ish Verdun Committee. The British Amlors extended their personal eaces to President Lebrun. The h Cabinet will attend the funervice at Gare de Lest on Boxay.