RAILWAY CATASTROPHE
PASSENGERS BURNED ALIVE. AN AWFUL SCENE. lU'tcivcd 17, 10.30 p.m. Paris, December 17. Thirteen passengers were killed and ao injured in a collision on the Orleans' railway. Numbers of trucks were uncoupled from a goods train and ran furiously down an incline and collided with a passenger train in a tunnel between Brive and Imogen The carriages soon took lire and tile tunnel became a huge oven. 1 A number of passengers was burned alive, amid an awful sccene. Rescue was impossible.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 303, 18 December 1908, Page 2
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84RAILWAY CATASTROPHE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 303, 18 December 1908, Page 2
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