HUNDREDS KILLED
CHINESE REFUGEES TRAINS HIT ON BRIDGE /United P. A.—By Telegraph Copyright (Australian Press Association) SHANGHAI, Sunday. It is estimated that hundreds of Chinese were killed when a refugee train from Pukow, en route to Tientsin, collided with an empty military train on a bridge of the Fei River, north of the Pengpu. Several carriages plunged 50 feet into the river. Refugees overflowed the roofs of the carriages, and scores were killed outright. The remainder was drowned.
The impact was terriffic. Every carriage was derailed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 9
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86HUNDREDS KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 9
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