Locomotives Collide on Saturday Morning: One Derailed but no Casualties An accident which resulted in damage to two locomotives and the derailment of One occurred in the yard of the Shanghai North Station (Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways) on Saturday morning shortly after six o'clock. Fortunately there were no casualties.
According to an unofficial version of the incident, the two engines were destined for duty to Nanking and Hangchow respectively. In the darkness, for it was before daylight on Saturday morning, one of tne drivers ev: dently misread a signal and ran his locomotive into the line along which the other was coming. Both engines in. their shunting operations were going at a fairly slow speed, otherwise the accident would have been much more serious than that which actually took place.
The two engines collided, causing a considerable amount of damage, and the derailment of one of them. Reports were made immediately to the station master and the foreign staff, with the result that breakdown gangs were on the spot a few minutes after the accident. 1
As the result of this accident. the lines to the locomotive shed were blocked and substitute engines were unefyle to pass to hook up the trains and run "ccording to time. The 7 a.m, fast train to. Nanking was delayed until about 8.40 o'clock, and the 8 a.m. train to Nanking was -delayed until about 9.20. Several local trains were also compelled to change their time tables.
Work by the breakdown squads was completed under foreign supervision by 9.15 o'clock and every effort to make up fon the time lost was attempted.
The 9.30 express train to Nanking was run five minutes later than its original time, and arrived in Nanking 15-minutes lata. The 7 o'clock fast train, however, did not reach Nanking until nearly 6 o'clock, On the whole the management have reason to be proud of the way. matters were arranged, and are. to be congratulated upon their feat in clearing the lines within so short a time. received from the staff of Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Ca., Ld. a handsome fruit stand, and toilet set.
When Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs left for a brief honeymoon at Hangchow the bride wore a smart costume of terra cotta coloured duvetyn, embroidered with fern design in French knots, with hat of crinoline trimmed with pansies of the same shade.
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