The Princeton Union

FORTY-THREE KILLED.

The Official List of Casualties Resulting From the Wreck in France.

Paris, July 28.—Official reports received from St. Mande, near Vincennes, the scene of the collision between the two excursion trains loaded with passengers returning from a musical festival at Fontenoy, show that forty-three people were killed and that one hundred and four people were injured by the accident. Six persons died after being extricated from the ruins.

Many of the unfortunate people imprisoned beneath the wreck of the railroad cars were drowned, while partly roasted, by the firemen who were summoned to the scene. Forty minutes elapsed before the firemen were able to obtain water, but when they did so they poured torrents upon the wreck and seemed to be utterly unaware of the fact that they were drowning the people they were attempting to rescue.

To-day the town hall of St. Mande presented a fearful spectacle. The blackened bodies of the dead lie in rows upon the floor and upon tables in that building. In some cases the remains are but little more than heaps of cinders intermixed with portions of limbs and fragments of other parts of what were but a short time ago human beings, laughing, chatting and singing in jovial contentment. One pile of charred limbs and human cinders was especially conspicuous, as it consisted of a mass of unidentified and unconnected bodies placed in a heap.

Among the injured sent to the hospital a number died immediately after admission, and many are expected to succumb. Many causes are given for the disaster, and charges are made that it was the work of wreckers, but nothing definite is known.