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AWFUL CATASTROPHE FROM THE FALLING OF A SUSPENSION BRIDGE

... UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST Great Yarmouth.- One of the most calamitous events which ever befel tins town, or any other tit this of the kingdom has just transpired and has spread lamentation and grief throughout the entire population. The scene of this dreadful event was the Suspension-bridge, on the North-quay, crossing the river Bure, aud which has been the entrance to the town from ...

THE LATE CALAMITY AT YARMOUTH

... Tbe number of tbe victims of this terrible calamity has been ascertained to be about ; tbe number rescued was 59. About twenty of the bodies of the sufferers were interred in the burial ground of St. Nicholas Church, on Wednesday, aud about 25 on Thursday. The funeral trains were going in fours from three o'clock till half-past I six, when the bodies were consigned to their long home amidst ...