RAILWAY COLLISION.
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED. Received August 26, 10.22 p.m. PARIS, August 26. The Bordeaux-Paris express collided with a goods engine shunting a mile from Coutrag at 11 p.m. Three carriages were reduced to matchwood. All the lamps were put out and the train was in darkness at the moment of the collision. The employees and workmen in the vicinity procured lights and extricated 350 passengers from the wreckage. Eleven people, including five railway employees, were killed. Twenty were more or less severely injured. It was six o'clock before a doctor arrived on the scene and rendered first aid to the injured, who had been lying on cushions" since midnight, after being roughly cared for by the rescuex*s.
CABLE KEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8519, 27 August 1907, Page 5
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126RAILWAY COLLISION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8519, 27 August 1907, Page 5
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