Of the 23 saved, eight were reported to have been seriously injured.
All officials of the train were reported to have been killed.
The accident occurred in Yamagate prefecture at about 840 o'clock this morning. The train was bound for Saka-machi from Yonezawa.
The railway bridge was over the Ara river and it is located a short distance from the Int, Yokone turfhel between Oguni and Tamagawaguchi on the Yonezawa-Sakamachi line.
About 20 metres of the bridge was destroyed by the avalanche, it was reported.
Medical supplies were rushed to the scene of the disaster on a relief train, but the deep snow hampered rescue work. The Young Men's Association along the-railway in Yamagata Prefecture were mobilized this mo ing to assist in rescue work.—Domei.
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