RAILWAY DISASTER
CABLENEWS United Press' Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
A FATAL COLLISION. j - TWENTY PERSONS KILLED. (Keceived February 16, 10.48 a.m.) PARIS, February 15. An. express train was travelling at a speed of fifty-three miles an hour when it clashed into a goods train at Courville crossing. Five, trucks were telescoped. Twenty persons were killed. Twelve bodies have been recovered- Sixty were injured. Owing to the explosion of the gasoline tank seven persons were burned to death in a few minutes. ';' The driver of the express failed to see -the signals owing to the-wind-blow-ing smoke in his eyes. Nineteen passengers in.the diningcar escaped with cuts from broken crockery and glass. An express from Nogent-le-Rotrou to Paris ran into the wreckage, but the engine only was derailed. (Received February 16, 11 a.m.) .' PARIS, February 15. Another smash occurred at Bethune, in the department of Pas de Calais, where two workmen's trains collided. ; Two :persons were killed arid twenty injured;- '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10167, 17 February 1911, Page 5
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158RAILWAY DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10167, 17 February 1911, Page 5
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