. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . lague-Stricken Railroad in : On the trans-Manchurian section K>iRussias great 5,000-mile \siaticrailroad a majority of the track work-ers are Mongolians. While citizens,nominally, of the new republic ofChina they are entirely under About two years ago whenthe plague broke out, it soon reached lected from a cull>;clion oi lifty largephotogravures sent to us by Dr. \-bicki of Jalantun, North of Karbin,The type of box car used for the trans-port of plague victims is the same asis used for the transport of tro
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . lague-Stricken Railroad in : On the trans-Manchurian section K>iRussias great 5,000-mile \siaticrailroad a majority of the track work-ers are Mongolians. While citizens,nominally, of the new republic ofChina they are entirely under About two years ago whenthe plague broke out, it soon reached lected from a cull>;clion oi lifty largephotogravures sent to us by Dr. \-bicki of Jalantun, North of Karbin,The type of box car used for the trans-port of plague victims is the same asis used for the transport of troops andemigrants. Some of the cars were lunon to isolated sidings as temporaryhospitals, and after the plague wasover they were roughly disinfected andbrought into service again in trooptransport or emigrant use. The Rus-sians never hesitated in burning Mon-golian villages, but saved their ownrolling stocks. L. Nen; York, .Y. ). First Steel : It may interest the readers of Rail-way AND LCCOMOTIVE tO. the Chmese track workers and reducedtheir numbers so rapidly that itseriously impaired the working of therailway. The Russians also sufferedand the State administration of rail-roads decided on heroic measures. Fireis the best disinfectant, and the Rus-sians burned up the more seriously af-fected districts, particularly at chief town in Russian-Manchuria. As the work went on it was found insome smaller places that the entirepopulation had succumbed to theplague. The bodies were gathered inheaps and kerosene poured over themand bodies and village went up in aholocaust. Suspected cases werebrought in by railroad to pest-housesspecially established and given the be?tattention possible by the Russianmedical corps. The Mongolian author-ities did nothing. The accompanying illustration is se- H STRICKEN IN CIli:. know the circumstances under whichthe first steel tires were applied to thewheels of a locomotive. The facts arebriefly t
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