The Archive · 1936

TRAIN DERAILED IN MANCHURIA Low Temperature Snaps CER. Track

Harbin, Jan. 20.

twenty-four persons were injured. Jone fatally, when a passenger train travelling west from Suifenho, at the Jeastorn terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railway, was wrecked four mulles from Imienpo yesterday. [The low temperature—it was 50/ [degrees below 2ero—caused the truck. ito snap and, as a consequence, the tain was derailed.

The locomotive and six of the sixteen carriages, including the dining-Jear, were badly smashed.

The other ten carriages rolled down the embankment, but were not seriously damaged.

The only person to be killed was jo Chinese. The injured consisted of sixteen Chinese, four Japanese, a Russian and two Koreans.

The disaster, which took place roughly 90 miles cast of Harbin, occurred at 1.35 yesterday afternoon,

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