TERRIBLE SCENES.
COLLISION IN A TUNNEL.
RUNAWAY RAILWAY TRUCKS
A HUGE OVEN
PASSENGERS BURNT ALIVE. THIRTEEN KILLED, THIRTY INJURED. Received December 17. 10.30 p.m. PARIS, December 17. A collision attended by loss of life occurred on the Orleans railway. A number of trucks became uncoupled from a goods train, and ran furiously down an incline, ar.d collided with a passenger train in a tunnel between Bnve and Imoges. The carriages soon touk fire, and the tunnel became a huge oven. A number of passengers were burnt alive amid awlul scene?. Rescue work was impossible. Thirteen passengers vera killed and thirty injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3073, 18 December 1908, Page 5
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101TERRIBLE SCENES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3073, 18 December 1908, Page 5
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