RAILWAY FATALITY
GOUAPSE OF A BRIDGE
TWEXT Y-TWO PERSONS DROWNED.
(Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.)
PARIS, November 24. A bridge at Saumur collapsed while a. train was crossing. Of fifty persons in the train twentytwo were drowned, including seven railway officials.
Crowds stood helplessly watching the survivors efforts to maintain a precarious hold on the wreckage, the floods sweeping them away one after another.
Meanwhile heroic rescuers made renewed attempts to save M. Douillet, a. wine merchant, who perished. His wife was also among the drowned. The d river of the train was saved by holding on to the tail of a. pig and .swimming ashore.
Ultimately tho military engineers rescued the half-dead survivors from the roof. «
A similar accident occurred on the same line in 1910, when 27 persons were drowned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10487, 25 November 1911, Page 5
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132RAILWAY FATALITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10487, 25 November 1911, Page 5
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