FRENCH TRAIN ACCIDENT.
DESPERATE STRUGGLES TO ESCAPE.
(Received November 25, 12.30 p.m.)
PARIS, November 24. One passenger on the train at Saumur was hauled out of the river to within a yard of the top of the embankment, when the rope broke, and he was drowned.
A survivor describes the desperate struggle of the occupants of one compartment to escape from the water reaching almost to the" roof. All wero eventually freed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10488, 27 November 1911, Page 5
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72FRENCH TRAIN ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10488, 27 November 1911, Page 5
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