TRAIN DISASTERS.
TROOP TRAIN COMBS TO GRIEF. SIXTEEN PERSONS KILLED.' Times'—\Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 8.10 o'clock.) PARIS, Sept. 19. Sixteen persons were killed and thirty injured in. an accident ;io a French troops >i*arn, at a yiadtfct at Vilkneuvb Low Sol. ... ■.-'*...: ■ :e£.;j*ree .passenger a?sd two 'motor coitab.es. : The falluJe of -the braises caused the front motor to leave,the rails. „it.fftyn<Jfc the parapet. 01. the' Viaduct, and swung round, hurling the passenger coaehes into a wooded ravine fifty feet below. The bottom of "the declivity was only reached down a steep, narrow, windI ing path, which was almost impassable ow"ing to the heavy rain. The carriages were embedded in mud a toot deep. EXPRESS MEHTS WITH DISASTER. TWENTY-ONE PERSONS INJURED. (Received September 19, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS. Sept. 18. The Ostend express smashed into a train at Courtrai, Flanders, owing to a signalling error. persons were injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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148TRAIN DISASTERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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