RAILWAY DISASTER.
PARIS EXPRESS DERAILED. ' THREE CARRIAGES SMASHED TU ' MATCHWOOD. ELEVEN KILLED AND TWLMY JLN- ' V'l JURED. '-A BELATED RELIEF.- ' ~Jj Received 20th, 10.22 p.m. Paris, August 28. ■ "5 The Bordeaux to Paris ejtpr«i3 col- 1 lided with a goods engine, which wat 1 Bhunting, a mile from Contrag at 11 p.m." '' Three carriages were reduced to , • matchwood. All the lamps were put out, the train being In darkness from the 1 moment of the tollialon. Employee! and workiiitn in the vialnity procured a light and extricated 160 J ' ijnssciijiTS.. . Ele»ti. : includ'ng fim railway em'. , 1 ! ployees, killed, and twenty .won ' or less severely injured. It was six o'clock before a doctor arrived on the scene and rendered first aid. The injured had been lying on cush- . ions since midnight, after being roughly cared for by the rescuers. / 3
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 August 1907, Page 2
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139RAILWAY DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 August 1907, Page 2
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