TRAIN COLLISION

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 7

TRAIN COLLISION

25 PEOPLE KILLED. FIFTY REPORTED INJURED. SMASHED TO MATCHWOOD. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. PARIS, July 30. Twenty-five people, were killed and 50 Injured when the Paris-St. Etienne express was derailed at Villeneuve St. Georges just outside Paris, at 11.15 last night. The first four coaches of the express were smashed to matchwood. The train was crowded with holidaymakers and pilgrims returning from Lisieux. It is believed that the points were jammed, and that the engine was thus overturned when travelling at 50 miles an hour. The accident occurred outside a doctor’s garden, in which the dead were placed and the injured given first aid. Wooden carriages were telescoped between steel cal's. Half of the Paris Fire Brigade helped in the rescue work and troops from the barracks close by assisted. DEATH-ROLL REACHES THIRTY. BURNED IN BLAZING WRECKAGE. CAUSE OF THE DISASTER. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 31, 11 a.m.) PARIS, July 30. The death-roll in the Paris-Saint Etienne expre'ss derailment has reached thirty, several of whom were burned in the blazing wreckage. It is officially announced that the disaster was due to the points being wrongly set.