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AWFUL CATASTROPHE AT YARMOUTH

... AWFUL CATASTROPHE AT YARMOUT FALL OF THE YARMOUTH SUSPENSION BRIDGE, CROWDED WITH PEOPLE, (From the Norwich Mercury.) Yarmouth, ten o'clock, Friday night, May 2. It is with an almost overwhelming feeling of awe, that we attempt to draw upon our faculties for a description of the scene of horror it has never yet been the lot of any journalist in this county, if not in England, to record. In ...

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT YARMOUTH

... (From the Norfolk News). One of the most calamitous events which ever befel this town, or any other this district of the kingdom, has just transpired, and has spread lamentation and grief throughout the entire population. The scene of this dreadful event was tbe Suspension-bridge, on the North-quay, crossing the river Bure. and which has been the entrance the town from the railway terminus, ...

THE LATE CALAMITY AT YARMOUTH

... THE LATE CALAMITY AT The number of the victims of this terrible calamity has been ascertained to be about 80; the number rescued was 59. About 20 of the bodies of the sufferers were interred in the burial ground of St. Nicholas Church on Wednesday, and about 25 on Thursday. The funeral trains were going in fours from three o'clock till half-past six, when the bodies were consigned to their ...