Harbin, July 20, Word has just been received here that on the morning of July 16 the river Yalu, swollen by rains, washed out a section of the Chinese' Eastern Railway, 16 miles east of Pokotu, A freight train which was proceed: ing westward jumped off the track and the driver, his assistant and five others who wei riding the cars 2 were killed instantly, Sixteen wagons were smashed to bits. duly 21.
The service of the trans-Siberian Railway is in danger of being temporarily suspended, it was reported touday, because of the floods of all the rivers on the western line of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Incessant rainfall has swollen the rivers, to an alarming degree, Yesterday the Tientsackang bridge was completely washed away, and on July 16 a section of the Chinese Eastern Railway over which the trans-Siberian outward bound express bad passed 30 minutes ear lier, was completely destroyed by the' floods from the river Yalu.
July 22, The torrential rains which have fallen here in. the few days have resulted in the coding of the Jow-lying districts, causing a great deal of damage to proper was the ware maya street that who ventured out of doors was drowned.
In Nakaloffka, one of the suburbs of the city, the unusual spectacle travelling about in boats presented, July 24, The floods resulting from the Jcontinuous "rainfall, washed away the ballast yesterday on the Chinese Eastern Railway at a point 70 miles west of Harbin, As a con-Jsequence a freighter jumped the track carly this morning and 17 wagons were smashed to bits. The mumber of casualties has not yet been ascertained—Reuter
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