Hankow, Sept, 18.
From latest reports to hand yestorday regarding the train and bus col lision on the Canton-Hankow oilway it appears that the accident was entirely due to the efforts of the driver of the bus in trying to race the train along that portion of the highway which runs parallel and very close to the railway line between Yichlawan and Tatopu just south of Changsha Exhaust steam from the engine is said to have temporarily blinded the chauffeur and caused him to swerve {into the side of the locomotive.
The speed with which the train was travelling caused. the bus tobe dragged along a short distance and nally threw it off to the side into a nearby pond, but the impact had been so great that the locomotive it self jumped the rails at the same time "and rolled on top. of the bus killing the driver and all of Its five 'The three following third-class carnages were also overturned before the train came to a halt and approx. imately 300 feet of track was. torn up. Eight passengers were killed and thirteen seriously' injured.
It is stated that the railway are caring for the injured who were moved as quickly as possible to ths nearest hospital and that compensa-ton, according to the regular scale adopted by the railway, will be pald to the relatives of the killed.
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