TRAINMEN EXONERATED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5

TRAINMEN EXONERATED

■ (Press Assn.-

■ TOODEN CARRIAGES SMASHED

-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

I (Rec. 7.15 p.m.) I Paris, Dec. 26- ■ The examining magisitnxta hegan ■a searching interrlog^tion of the ■driver, Daudigny and his fireman, ■Ckrpencier, at the scene of the dis■aster. Both men were subsequently Bset at liberty. ■ There is a great nation outcry at Btlie repeated railwia.y accidents and Ha di'astic overhaul of the system is deHnanded. The matter will be the subBject of a full-dress debate in the Hdianiher shortly. ■ Fifty hodies are still unidentified, Hn some cases because whole families iBre wiped out, The steel carriag'es of Hlie Strasburg express did not break Bp as did the Nancy coaches. H "I hope to heaven mo train is beHpd us," said Columbier, fireman on Hhe Nancy train, -to the driver, All(Bert Fusin. A moment later there jHress bored into the wooden carriages ^Bmost as far as the Nancy train's "Sngine. H fusin was the only person' who kept His head. At the moment of the col1 Hsion he rau out immediately and fl»ed red 1am ps on the line to warn 1 Hther drivers and thus enabled the ^HmIwi express to pull up within 100 of the wreeked itrains.