Powell, editor for China Weekly Review (previously named Millard’s Review of the Far East) Carl Crow, a journalist and newspaper proprietor who lived in Shanghai and Lucy Aldrich, the daughter of a US senator and sister-in-law of American financier John D. After the train was toppled, a group of bandits began scouring the twisted wreckage, robbing and kidnapping passengers.Īmong them were John B. On the morning in question, the train was carrying 200 Chinese passengers and over 30 foreign journalists, political figures and entrepreneurs from the US, UK, France and Italy – among other nations – all bound for Shandong to witness the inauguration ceremony for an embankment on the Yellow River.Īt around 3am, the locomotive and its passenger carriages derailed after running into a purposely dismantled section of the rail track. The ‘Blue Express’ was China’s first all-steel train, and was purchased new from the United States. In the early morning hours of May 6, 1923, a booming blue-colored express train traveling from Nanjing to Tianjin began its approach to Lincheng, today known as Xuecheng, in Shandong Province.
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