 Without sufficient braking, the momentum of the train carried it slowly into the buffers, and the locomotive crossed the almost wide station concourse, crashing through a thick wall, before falling onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose.A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry, and two passengers, the fireman, two guards and a passerby in the street sustained injuries.The woman, Marie-Augustine Aguilard, had been standing in for her husband, a newspaper vendor, while he went to collect the evening newspapers.