Train Derailed Following Landslide: Over One Hundred Casualties Paris, July 4.
Casualties estimated at 17 killed and 97 injured were caused to-day by the derailing of the Havre-Paris express between Acheres and Poissy.
It is believed that the accident was due to a landslide following a storm, Later.
It is officially steted that the accident to the Havre-Paris Express was due to its taking too quickly a berd on to a branch line to which the train had been diverted owing! to subsidence of the ground as a reewit of a rainstorm, which may have prevented the driver from seeing the signal to slow up.
Result of Diversion on to a Loop Line July 5.
The cause of yesterday's accident] to the Havre-Paris Express officially ascribed to the fact that the train was diverted to a loop line, The driver, unaware of the change, maintained his speed of 58 miles an hour, which was too fast for the secondary track.—Reuter.
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