Yarmouth Notes Part 23

Hannah Eliza Lake, an infant.

Widow Edwards, reported to be in a dangerous state.

Martha Field, aged 7 years.

Mr. Frederick Nathaniel Palmer, surgeon.

Mr. William Jackson.

Eliza, daughter of Mr. James Borking, dyer, aged 12, whose sister was drowned. She got hold of a man's leg and he pulled her out.

Martha Field, a young woman, who came into Court, but had her head tied up and seemed much bruised.

Elizabeth Cuddon, a young woman from Ipswich.

Mary Utting, mother of Caroline Utting.

Ann Bowles, aged 11 years.

Mrs. David Little and one child, another being drowned.

Mrs. Livingstone and one child, two having been drowned.

Mrs. Louisa Beloe and one child, another child drowned.

Mrs. Susan Money and one child.

Elizabeth Rowland, aged 16, said that she and her four brothers were on the Bridge but a minute or two before, but having been cautioned by her mother not to take the children on the Bridge for fear they should come to any harm, and being fearful lest from the crowd they might be pushed into the water, she left, and thus providently escaped.

Susan Knights stated that she was on the West end of the Bridge with three children, all of whom were happily saved.

Maria Smith went down twice, when she caught hold of a boat and was taken into a wherry.

Elizabeth Bowles was on the end of the Bridge, but happily escaped.

Grace Duffell, mother of Elizabeth Duffell.

Elizabeth Browne.-She said there was plenty of time for all to have escaped after they heard the chain break, had they been aware of the danger.

A little girl, sister of Maria Stolworthy.

Betsy Wright left the Bridge a minute or two before it fell.

Alfred Norman on hearing a cracking noise ran off on the West side of the Bridge, when he saw the Bridge fall.

Eleanor Eliza Allman says, a man called out that the Bridge would fall, and she ran off; she said "In about five minutes after the Bridge fell."

Robert Whitlock left the Bridge to look for his brother, and the Bridge fell before he returned.

A little boy named Jay, son of Mr. Jay, baker, White Lion Gates, said that when he was under the water, the people looked as if they were hugging each other. He could see them quite perfectly.

One man fell across a piece of iron with his head just above water; he reached to two girls who were struggling for life, and a third caught hold of his collar. All four were saved.

A young man named Simmons, (whose leg was also fractured in extricating them from the bended iron of the Bridge with a crowbar).

Robert Marshall, aged 16, escaped with a scalp wound.

Sarah Linder, aged 12, Bow 132, was also rescued with a wounded scalp.

Martha Ann Stolworthy, aged 7 years.

Mr. John Lake's servant and one child saved.

A brother of B. P. Burton's.

A young woman named Cook, living in Bow 65.

Harriett Hunnibal, Row 110.

Caroline Roberts was standing quite at the foot of the Bridge, and escaped without going into the water.

John Watts, aged 16, and three brothers were saved.

Tresor Steward, aged 12, Priory.

Hannah Watering, aged 8, Priory.

It was noted that the handbill issued by Nelson, the Clown, was prefaced by this extraordinary motto, "Is it to be a benefit, 'or not?' that is the question." And in another part of it, it is stated, "Mr. Wm. Cooke will appear in a dying scene'"

May 17th.-In reply to a memorial from the Town Council, the Government had directed Mr. Jas. Walker, C.I., to attend at Yarmouth and examine the wreck of the Suspension Bridge.

A meeting of the Beachmen's Relief Fund had been held, Wm. H. Palmer, Esq., in the chair, when the following account was presented:-

s. d.

Annuities to widows 438 0 0 Weekly allowances to children 434 4 0 Gratuities to widows of Warner, 50 0 0 Poyntz, and S. George Star Company for loss of yawl 212 0 0 Survivors for loss of clothes, &c. 60 0 0 1,194 4 0

Leaving a balance of about 600 in hand, and it was determined on the motion of the Rev. H. Mackenzie, seconded by Geo. Danby Palmer, Esq., that the fund should be called, "The Great Yarmouth Royal Life Fund."

Mr. Marsh had attended the _levee_.

May 24th.-The Rev. H. Mackenzie had proposed the restoration of S.

Nicholas' Church, which he estimated would cost 5,000.

The "Bridge Jury" had met again, and, after hearing evidence, arrived at the following verdict in one case which governed the rest:-"That deceased came to her death by the falling of the Suspension Bridge across the river Bure, in this Borough, on the 2nd May, 1845; and that the falling of the bridge was attributable immediately to a defect in the joint or welding of the bar that first gave way, and to the quality of part of the iron, the workmans.h.i.+p being inferior to the requirements of the original contract, which had provided that such should be of the first quality."

May 31st.-A temporary bridge had been opened across the Bure.

The Committee on the Norfolk and Suffolk Railway lines had met. The "Diss, Beccles and Yarmouth" promoters had abandoned that portion of their line which connected Lowestoft with Yarmouth, and had agreed to go to Reedham and abandon Yarmouth. The Lowestoft line had pa.s.sed through committee.