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FALLING OF THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, YARMOUTH

... Saturday and Sunday, during which days, crowds of persons arrived by the Railway, and multitudes from other directions visited the place, which a few hours previously had been been such a scene of desolation and death. By Saturday evening the of Jury had seen upwards 66 bodies, and about 25 more remained to be examined. in the course of Saturday the bodies of Ann Beckett. Priory, aged 5 Years ...

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 ...

AWFUL CALAMITY AT YARMOUTH.—FALL OF A BRIDGE AND LOSS OF UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED LIVES

... One of the most calamitous events which ever befel any town or district of the kingdom, occurred at Yarmouth on Friday evening the 2nd inst., and has spread lamentation and woe throughout the entire population of the town and neighbourhood, and, iodeed, a strong feeling of sorrow cannot fail to excited in the breasts of all who become acquainted with the details of the awful occurrence. Never ...

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have in type notice of the life of the late Dr. Card, which we are reluctant!> compelled

... postpone till our next. A letter the broad gauge is unavoidably omitted, as also the Droitwich and other communications. We have two reasons for not inserting the Gloucester imports : first, because , when copied from the Gloucesterpapers,the names of the Worcester importers are frequently omitted, and they are therefore not be depeuded on ; secondly, our space has been generally occupied by ...

A FEARFUL CATASTROPHE

... AWFUL CATASTROPHE FROM THE FALLING OF THE YARMOUTH SUSPENSION BRIDGE. DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE. YARMOUTH, Friday Night. One of the most calamitous events which ever befell this town, or any other in this district of 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 ...

AWFUL CALAMITY AT YARMOUTH,

... NORFOLK. NORWICH, Saturday Night. The journalist has but seldom to record an event of such a distressing character as one which occurred on Friday evening last, at Yarmouth, by which there is little doubt that upwards of one hundred persons lost their lives. In the afternoon of Friday, Nelson, the Clown at Cooke's Circus, proceeded to perform a feat which has excited some attention, both in ...