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THIRTY DEATHS. DISASTER NEAR PARIS. PILGRIMS ABOARD. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 31, 9.45 a.m. PARIS, July 30. Thirty 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 wore smashed to smithereens. The train was crowded with holidaymakers and pilgrims returning from Lisieiix. It is officially announced that the points were wrongly set. The engine overturned at 50 miles an hour outside a doctor’s garden, wherein the dead were placed and the injured given first-aid.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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100EXPRESS DERAILED Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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