The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-05 00:00:00

of the aawe of Gillings, the wife of a carpenter, was
on the bridge with her child ; when the was
hurled into the water, with extraordinary presence of
mind she seized her child's clothes with her teeth, and
paddled herself to a place of safety.
Many a touching scene was witnessed as the anxious
• mother, and the hardly less excited father or friend, re-
cognised some missing one safely emerging from the
crowd. Thousands thronged the North Quay—messen-
gers were dispatched in all directions to procure medical
aid, and the communication with the west side of the
water being cut off, hundreds were left in painful sus-
pense respecting those who were safe on the opposite
shore. Nothing could exceed the promptitude, activity,
and attention of the surgeons and medical men of the
town, all of whom were in immediate attendance, eking
all they could to afford relief to the sufferers, where the
slightest chance of resuscitation appeared.
Mr. Lacon and a number of the persons employed in
his brewery were exceedingly active in supplying hot
water fur baths from their brewery, which is not far
distant. All the blankets from the union house that
could possibly be spared, were in requisition.
The search for bodies was continued till about half•past
nine o'clock, when the boats were compelled to desist,
but before the turn of the tide nets were placed on each
side of the bridge to prevent, if possible, any of the
bodies not yet recovered being carried out to sea by the
force of the current, which is very strong.
On this side the bridge the greater number were taken
to the Norwich Arms Inn, where there were at one time
fifty-three corpses. Others were taken to the Admiral
Coliingwood and to the Swan, and many to their own
houses. Not a few of those who first got out of the
water went away unnoticed, and their number is un-
known. Up to a late hour last night, it was ascertained
that seventy-five dead bodies had been taken out of the
water ; and up to midnight, from the inquiries made, it
was ascertained that forty-five others were missing.
Among the latter I have been able to obtain the fol-
lowing names :—Caroline, daughter of William Church,
aged 16; James Church, aged 34; John Seaman, 11,
son of Daniel Seaman; Matthew Barney, Daniel Powley,
Richard Powley, Elizabeth Puwley, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs.
Diteham, a daughter of Mr. Robert Crow; a child of
Mr. Robert Adams, a son of William Duffield, broker ;
an old man named Gilbert, and two childrtn of Mr.
Gotts, excise officer.

By far the greater number of those lost were females
and children. James Marshall, 16, escaped with a
wound in the scalp. Two boys named Honorley, aged
12 and 17, were taken home ; the younger died last
evening, the elder is likely to recover.
Among the dead I have not been able to ascertain sa-
tisfactorily many of the parties. Mr. D. Little has lost
one child, Mr. Livingston one if not two, Mr. Borking,
dyer, a daughter ten years old, Mr. B. L. Utting, a
daughter, 16. It is in vain, till the coroner's inquest, to
hope to furnish you with an authentic list of names, ar.d
any other would be mischievous.

All the bodies, except one which has not been identi-
fied, have been removed to their respective homes.
The consternation which pervades the whole mass of
our population—the intense grief into which almost
every one we meet is plunged—seemed to defy our at-
tempts to procure authentic information. This diffi-
culty is materially enhanced from the inability which
has prevailed to identify many of the bodies. I have
scarcely met any person who has not either directly or
relatively been bereaved or thrown into a state of painful
suspense. _ _ _

When the multitudes who lined the banks of the river
first heard the shrieks from the bridge, they mistook
them for cheers to hail the approach of the aquatic tra-
veller, and turned to look away from the scene of despair
to the object that had brought them together enly
to be turned suddenly back on the scene of desolation.
At the time of the occurrence, two gentlemen in a gig
came through the toll gate, and so near were they in
being involved in the melancholy catastrophe, that we
are credibly informed the horde had actually stepped on
the end of the bridge, but being suddenly pulled hack
oa the first announcement of alarm, they were most pro-
videntially saved.
The Haven and Pier Commissioners, as many as could
be got together, met at the office of their clerk, Mr.
Tolver, about ten o'clock, and adjourned to an early
hour this morning, to take some steps about the bridge.
It will be gratifying to the parents and fri,.-nds of the
children in the I'roprietary Grammar School to learn
that they are all safe. We have also inquired at Mr.
Plummer s school, and find that in consequence of ti.e
rain the little boys were not allowed to go out ; four of
the biggest boys who went to witness th exhibition re-
turned quite safe.

YARMOUTH, FOUR O'CLOCK.—The scene at the broken
bridge at this moment is one of the most heart-harrowing
it has ever been our lot to witness. Before the faintest
approach of, morning, a number of boatmen and others
have been most actively engaged endeavouring to find
the bodies of the missing persons, and their efforts have
been in some degree successful, as three more bodies
have been discovered. The banks of either side of the
strc am, even at this hour, are crowded with an expectant
and anxious throng who await in breathless anxiety the
efforts of the boatmen, anticipating in every fresh endea-
vour to recognise the features of some beloved object.
On one side may be seen a group of pale and weeping
women with tearful eyes watching the progress of the
searcb, and on the other a group of hardy seamen, their
strong frames convulsed with emotion as they clasp in
their arms the dripping corpse of some favourite
and carry it just as it has been lifted from the water to
their homes. Indeed a more distressing scene than the
present, or a catastr,phe more horrible in its conse-
quences, it has never been our lot to witness. Eve ry side
herever the beholder turns, the same frightful prospect
of human suffering- is apparent.
It is generally supposed that many persons who were
standing on the edge of the bridge, or on that portion
allotted to foot passengers, when the accident occurred,
clasped the hand-rails, and were precipitated head fore-
most into the stream, and became entangled among the
broken baluatrades. The body of a I:ttle girl, the
daughter of a man named George Parker, a coal-heaver,
has just been brought out. The bodies are so swelled
and distorted that in many cases identification has been
extremely difficult. One of the nets has just been
drawn, but this contained no bodies. Two or three
corpses have been found lying entangled with some of
the iron-work about the centre of the stream. When
our ( xpress left, they were extricating the bodies, and
drawing the other nets.
Among those that have been recovered are Mr. F. N.
Palmer, surgeon, Mrs. a Little, Mrs. Livingston, Fre-
derick Dye, 16, taken to the hospital with injury to the
knee and. leg, Dye, North end, with a fractured kg,
a young man named Simmons, whose leg was also frac•
tured in extricating it from the bended iron of the
bridge with a crow bar. Mr. Sloman's son Frank has
been recovered, but his servant, Moss, is still missing.
One or two circumstances demand a passing glance—
one, the state of the bridge. That structure was erected
by the late Robert Cory, Esq., in lieu of the ancient
ferry across the Burt, of which he was possessed, and
was opened on the 23d of April, 1829, and suspended
from a chain on either side, attached to four peilestals or
piers, also of iron, and fastened to abutment stones.
In April, 1844, in contemplation of increased traffic to
the railway, in order to afford sufficient width for car-
riages to pass, a platform for foot passengers was erected
outside the bars on either side, it being the intenti n of
the proprietors, on completing an arrangement with the
railway company, and obtaining an Act of Parliament
which has been applied for this session, to erect a new
arched stone bridge. The immense weight of the thickly
congregated mass being thrown on one side of the bridge
caused the calamity.
A gentleman who was present on both occasions
assures us that the crowd assembled on the bridge to
witness the return of Royal], Mapes, and Hall, from
Norwich assizes, was much greater than at this time, but
that then the weight was distributed more equally
over the surface.

Many questions have been asked as to how far it was
the duty of the police to have prevented such numbers
assembling on the bridge. To this we cannot venture a
reply. It is not attempted to be denied that a large body
of the ?dice were in attendance on both sides of the
river, where danger seemed most to be anticipated, to
prevent, if possible, any accident ; their error, if such
it should be called, seems to have been one of judgment,
not of neglect of duty, and had the accident not hap.
pened, probably no observation would have been made.
By this event the traffic to the railway terminus has
been considerably impeded, there being now no other
means of communication than a ferry boat across from
Limekiln wharf.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
(From the Fifth Edition of the Norfolk News.)
The following is the best list which has been produced
of the Lames of the unfortunate sufferers. It was pre-
pared by Serjeant Willutnent, and presented to the
Magistrates at their racetino• this morning:—
Susan Mayers, aged 9 ; Maria Stolworthy, 14; Maria
Juniper, 9 ; a daughter of D. Little, 15 ; Maria Ed-
wards, 12 ; Hannah Field, 8 ; Mary Ann King, 8 ;
Sarah Utting ; Fulcher, 18 ; Eliza Hatch, 12 ;
Durrant ; Burton ; Trory ; High ; Miss
Johnson ; Caroline Anger, 16 ; Eliza Duffield, 10 ;
Harriett Bussey, 24 ; Matilda Livingstone, 6 ; Ann
Maria Scotter, 20 ; William Lynes, 6 ; Thomas John-
son, 8 ; William 'Tennant, 10 ; Harriett Tann, 13 ;
Clara May, 20 ; Sarah Ilunn, 14 ; Charles Dye, 2 ;
William ilindle, 10 ; Eppy Thorpe, 11 ; Caroline
Church, 16 ; Rachel Vincent, 20 ; Caroline Parker, 8 ;
Sarah Gilbert, 12 ; Benjamin Dye, 9 ; Walter Watts ;
Philip Livingstone, 9 ; Barking ; Eliza Hunnerable ;
Robert Moss, 26 ; Daniel Ebbage ; Miss Johnson ;
William Grimmer, 8 ; Horace Fox, 20 ; Richard Row-
ley, 4 ; Elizabeth Crowe, 11 ; Burton ; Betsey Mor-
gan, 62 ; Mary Ann Jenkerson, 10 ; John Tennant, 12;
Mary Ann Lake, 2 ; Christopher Barber, 11 ; Eliza
Powley, 21; Eliza Conyers, 13 ; Sarah Ann Butti-
fant, 18.

A lady, dressed in mourning, with a gold watch sus-
pended by a gold chain.

T w ELVE
The number of dead bodiescLocK actually ascertained at
this hour was 90. Before our reporter left the Yarmouth
station the number was stated to be 104.
At three o'clock it was impossible to tell exactly the
number of persons dead. Several had recovered that
had been reperted as dead, and some few had died
whore it was thought were not dead ; but as near as
could be ascertained the number of the dead was 93.