TRAIN WRECK.
AWFUL SCENKS. PASSENGERS PINNED IN BURNING DEBRIS. Received June 20, 10.15 p.m. PARIS. June 20. Sorir of the viqtims of the collision between the two trains at Villereux were pinned in the burning wreckage, and it was impossible *o rescue them. The horrified helpers could only watch them roasting alive. Their cries were heartrending, and the remains in some instances had to ba collected in fragments. Extrications continued all night. Ernesc May, a prominent financier, happening to motor past the station in the morning, inquired anxiously, and found his son-in-law dying, and his grandson dead. Of the first sixteen bodies recovered only five have been identified. Many were only recognisable by their rings and other unburnt trinkets. The Paris express, instead of a speed of fifty miles was running at the rate of 63 milss an hour to make up lost time.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10074, 21 June 1910, Page 5
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144TRAIN WRECK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10074, 21 June 1910, Page 5
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