THE FRENCH CATASTROPHE
BOTH TRAINS DESTROYED. DEMENTED DRIVER ARRESTED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, June 20. The firing of the carriages in the collision at Villepreux was due to the explosion of the oil reservoir in the express dining car. Both trains were practically consumed, and the bodies were so charred as to render it impossible to discover their sex. Ledue, driver of the Grenville, express, rushed in a frenzy inco the fields. He has since been arrested.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 22 June 1910, Page 5
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77THE FRENCH CATASTROPHE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 22 June 1910, Page 5
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