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DREADFUL CATASTROPHE AT YARMOUTH

... Tax paiaful accident at Yarmouth, wbicb we have noticed in another page, by which a very great number of human beings bave lost their lives, owing to tbe foiling of tbe suspension bridge, calls for the mod profound sympathy for tbeir bereaved survivors. We never remember to have recorded a more dreadful disaster, and allude to it here witb tbe earned hope, that smne proper precautions will be ...

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 ...

AWFUL CATABTROPHE AT YARMOUTH

... DPWARDB OF ONB HUNDRED LIVES LOBT. [From the Norwich Mercury.] Yabmocth, Fbidat Mat 2— lt is with an almost overwhelming feeling of awe that we attempt to draw upon our faculties for a description of a scene of horror it has ne- ver yet been tbe lot of any journalist in this county, if in England, to record. In vain do we endeavour to select words which may in tbe most fitting manner portray ...

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 ...