(No. 16) collided with a freight train near Machungho station this morning. Five persons were killed and 20 injured—Reuter, Mukden, Dee. 8.
Twenty-four persons were killed and 50 seriously injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train bound for Taonan, which took place near Machungho Station at 9.40 am, today. The trains were derailed and overturned.
A relief party was immediately despatched to the scene of the disaster and the casualties are being carried to. the South Manchuria, Railway Hospital at Kaiyuan, The relief squad are experiencing much difficulty owing to the cold, 40 or 50 degrees below zero, as well as to the fact that the accident occurred in the dead of the night,
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