Accused of bringing the 32nd Nanking-Hangchow through ¢x~ press into the Shihhutang' Station, against. the signal thereby causing collision with the Sed. Military Special, the driver of the train being held by: the Locomotive Department of the Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow Railway pending investigation.
The collision occurred at, 7.38 p.m, on September 2, resulting slight injuries to more than 10 passengers and 19 soldiers. Except thatthe cow-catchers of the two engines, were twisted, the loco tives escaped damage. The Li fas cleared" shortly" before 19 o'clock. Both trains were delayed.
The 3rd Military Special, carrying. officers und soldiers of the Third Battalion of the Seventh Regiment, Fourth Brigade, Second arrived at the Shihhutang St wrtly before 7.30 pin. As. the fécain was about to stop the Hang-Jchow-bound through express, ignotthe signal, entered the' station most at the same time, 'Though both trains had slowed down considerably, the collision produced a terrific noise, causing temporary panic among the pas-vengers and the people in' the station. 'A number of soldiers, Jarmed, seeing that their commander was injured in the collision, rushed into the station in search of the station master, who made a hurried Bight into a house nearby.
Because of the breakdown of tole-graphic communications between Shikhutang and the Shanghai North Station confirmation of the accident was not received here unfit carly on September 3, TI Breakdown Special was shortly patched to the scene, but upon ar-_ found the line had been The driver of the through express laid responsibility for the collision to a defective signal board, which, he said, had been damaged by the recent typhoon.
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