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Show FRENCH RAIL CRASH PROBED LAGNY, France, Dec. 26 (UP) The greatest railway catastrophe in the history of France today cast a shadow of sorrow upon the nation's observance of Christmas. President Albert Lebrun planned plan-ned during the day to visit the scene of the collision of the Strasbourg Stras-bourg and . the Paris-Nancy express ex-press trains on the eastern rail--way, in which nearly 200 perished and 300 were injured. Recover Bodies One hundred and ninety-one bodies had been recovered from the splintered wreckage of the wooden coaches of the Paris-Nacy Paris-Nacy train, into which the Strasbourg Stras-bourg express plowed from the rear at a speed of 110 kilometers (approximately 68 miles) an hour. Many of the injured under treatment in hospitals in Paris, Lagny and Meaux were critically hurt, and the total of the fatalities fatali-ties was expected to pass 200. The engineer and firemanof the Strasbourg express, Lucien Dau-bigny Dau-bigny and Henri Chappentier, were formally charged with homicide homi-cide and were held in jail at Meaux, a few miles from the scene of the crash. The wreck occurred Saturday night as the two trains, packed with passengers homeward bound for Christmas, traveled through the fog-shrouded valley of the Marne river. |