Tro were killed on September 2 when' a baggage car on the South! Manchsrian Railway down cay express train jumped the rails near Chang-te, a town 45 miles north of Mukden on the way to Changchun, causing the locomotive and two other cars also to come off the rails, 'The last two ears, in one of which Col. L. M. Cosgrave, Cana dian' Trade Commissioner in Shanghai, was travelling were not affected.
The train was apparently travelling at over 40 miles an hour when. it'approached a curve near a wayside station. Some sort of main tenance work was being carried out! at the curve, and this was possibly. the cavse of the accident.
Behind the locomotive was Laggage car, and this came off the rails, and was dragged for 200 ya over the sleepers before it suddenly plunged off sideways into a feld. his canted the locomotive to jump siding points that it had just reached, and fall over on its side. 'A third-class car behind the beea car went into a field on the other side of the track, as did the car Vehind it, The fourth car in the train was for first class passengers, and the fifth (and last) car was for second class passengers. Neither of these came off-the rails, and no damage
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