Tsinan, May 19.
The Tzechwan coal' mines in northeastern Shantung presented a scene of horror as. several dead bodies of the flood victims floated ut to the mouth of the shaft to-day, th the meantime, compensation for the families of the victims has been decided upon by the mine company following intervention of the Shan tung Provincial Department of Reconstruction, According to the measures reached, the family of each of the victims Is to receive $50 funeral expenses for the dead, $200 in compassionate grant, Jand an amount equal to two years' wages of the vietim—Central News.
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