WORK OF RESCUE.

Guided by the cries, speedily-organised rescuers extricated the passengers pinned in the debris. The dead and injured were at first conveyed to a neighbouring café, and afterwards to a cinema. Ambulances and firemen arrived on the scene from Houilles and Sartrouville, and by half-past eleven 39 bodies had been laid side by side in the station waiting-room. The rescue work was done by the light of torches and acetylene lamps, and nurses and soldiers of the 5th Regiment of Engineers at Versailles rendered valuable aid. Several bodies were taken from the carriage suspended in mid-air. In the waiting-room the injured received first aid and were then taken by motor-cars to Paris hospitals, and by a special train which had been sent from the Gare Saint Lazare.

When the train returned to Paris at midnight there were 50 ambulances with a detachment of soldiers in waiting. The scenes in Houilles waiting-room were repeated at the Gare Saint Lazare. It was found that many of the injured had broken legs and fractured skulls. One young man had both legs crushed. A woman, her face horribly disfigured, uttered awful shrieks, and a little girl with fractured limbs, her blonde hair covered with blood, cried for her father, who was found and placed in an ambulance unconscious. Many of the injured had their heads bandaged, and in some cases their eyes were closed. Those brought by train were most seriously injured, and were conveyed to the Beaujon and Lariboisière hospitals. Thirty-five of the 45 dead were identified by one o’clock today.