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qoMceof ho explosion of fire tiam i.— cihcjfieid Mercury.The Loridonderry Journal gives the follow-Qg tseiQcbuly catastrophe, Ihe details of which rou.'l fictte the most painful emotion in every feeling mind ; ~u Bo Saturday evening, a respectable mao, named Tbooaa* M'Closkey, accompanied by his wife and a little boy twelve tear* of age, was returning home from the market of Dungiven. They had to oass the n»er Roe,about a mile above that town, and hating “rived at the ford w here they generally crossed, near then own farm, they found, from the swollen state of the river, it wai quite impracticable to attempt a pas* and proceeded a mile further up, where they crowed over at Tamniaran-bridge. They had yet a locoosiderable mountain stream to pass, over *hich there is no bridge, and the car, with the three hetple#*individuals, was observed approaching it wbeo **$utDiog to gel dark ; the road here crosses the burn, ’“ynear its confluence with the Roe. Nothing fur* Jncrii known of the cause of this fatal catastrophe, «W there can be little doubt that the force of the Jtream overturned the car, which was hurried on by rapidity of the torrent, and its unfortunate passenger* drowned. Early on Sunda\ morning the eldestdaughter went to a neighbour s, i» search of herand mother, supposing they had taken shelter “Wu the itorrn, but bad not proceeded far when she •“•covered the horse, still all*e and in harness, throw o °J»t on the bank of the Roe, and a little further was dead body of her father, with part of the reins j**U tn his hand. During the day, when the wat*rs subsided, the remains of the woman was found out oo a gravel bed near Bovev.igh glebe, and those of the little bov, lacerated and ruanirtrd by the ^k# over which he bad been carried, were discerned * bleaching ground near Newtown Limavady, about miles .from where the car w as overturned. By thi* afflicting dispensation of Providence eight chil-are left orphans unprovided for.”1 A L* * m. . ¥' _ ... /I . « T■ ^ n*f\r f I tri
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True Sun
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Dec 01, 1835
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