FRENCH RAILWAY HORROR

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 57, 7 November 1913, Page 6

FRENCH RAILWAY HORROR

THE WORK OF SALVAGE. [By Electric Telegraph—copyright [United Press Association. I Paris, November 6. Forty bodies have been recovered, but the fire is still in the debris. Three signals were against Duinaine. He says he . thought he could get through. Apparently the train was late and he chanced his luck. The salvage work continues. There were indescribable horrors in extricating the bodies. ONE TRASN LATE, THE OTHER EARLY. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Paris, November 6. There are usually six minutes between the express and the mail trains, but the former was four minutes late and the latter two minutes early., M. Jaboulay, the well-known professor of the medical faculty at Lyons, was amongst those killed. The Drivers’ and Firemen’s Union demand the release of Driver Dumaine. on. tlie ground that the company refused to alter the position of the signals. , postal employees had often emphasised the peril of the trains .crossing each other at right angles at too short-intervals.