On Tuesday morning there was a serious accident on the second section about a mired Li out from Hankow. Two construc tion, crowded with workmen, while proceeding at a rapid rate suddenly tumbled over_an embankment through some failure in the rail, with the result that nine men were killed on the spot and a great many injured, one of whom died afterwards. The same day, a little further along the line, to men were blown to pieces through the premature explosion of a blast ing charge. As the result of these affairs, the country people turned out in their thousands determined that, once for all, they. would put a stop to these killing and maiming proceedings. Their attitude towards the foreign employees was so threatening that all of them employed on the second section, to the number of eighteen, beat a hasty retreat to Hunkow, Here they still remain, afraid to go back, although the officials have compromised the matter by a payment of $90 per head funeral expenses.
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