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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Feb 09, 1840

Page

7

Loss of a Steamer De Yorx Lexington Disaster

A steamer fire tragedy near Long Island Sound claims most lives from the Lexington, which left New York with about 70 passengers and 29 crew. Fire erupts among cotton bales. passengers and crew scramble toward the bow and lifeboat. rescue efforts fail, leaving many missing or dead amid reports from Captain Brooks and others aboard the Nimrod.

Nimrod Brooks Basigepor Lexington Gee Long Island Sound New York Eaton's Neck Theingdon Long Island Hempstead Charles Smith Chester Hilliard Ni Sas Pieamel Lars Hilliard Par Sin Childs Tee Lacon Hilliard Kim Wh Cox Santor Pees Eer Meeker Stockport Sig Sas Hilliard Cabite Bridgeport Coon Hilliard Korwich Longsland Hilltare Agai Re Bank of Boston Sim Dolar Vanderbilt Thaddeus Phelps Abe Bridgeport’ Harbour Bae Trayer Professor Long Pethanist Fiser Harvand University South Foster Woiheir America Moth Winslow Boston Brookhaven

Monmouth Prisoner Transport Sparks City Turmoil

The Frost trio’s removal to transport life sparked a dramatic Monmouth uproar as Home Office reprieve delayed, lancers and police escorted them by steam packet to Chepstow and Portsmouth. Eyewitness accounts describe a secretive night vaning, anxious crowds, and guarded voyages amid stormy seas.

Usk Considine Newport May Home Office Bristol Lieutenant Fisher Church Jones Chepstow Monmouth Lancers Bernard Bellinn Yard London Police Special ‘Commission Owen Whiting Beaufort Arms Rifles Portsmouth 29Th Infantry Frost Wwe Williams Welch Mr. Owen London Kent

Arab troops engage near Mered in Algerian fighting report

Despatches from Algiers dated January 25 describe Arab horsemen of about 1,500 moving toward Mered to harass 23rd detachments. Colonel Gueswiller attacked, three men wounded, one mortally. Arab foot soldiers noted on the Atlas northern slope. a man was killed at Bidsah. The 1st division has 10,000 troops available. Gen. Houderot poised to fight. Additional skirmishes near Sidi Moussa and Mountain of Lions yield Arab losses around fifty in cavalry clashes.

Valee Algiers Chiffa Mered Gueswiller Boufferick Duvivier Atlas Bidsah Houderot Gueheneuc Bouhamidy Douairs Mustapha Sidi- Moussa Lions South Australius Anna Robertson Glenawilly Prince Regent Port Adelaide Government House North South Adelaide Adelaide the Torrens Holloway Finniss New South Wales Frome Sturt Faran Blake Messrs Slee Guy's Hospital Patt Foyle Thorverton Exeter CuiLp-Drorrixe Wakley Marylebone Seymour-street Edgware Road G. Wardell Westmore Iland Elter Water Westmoreland Windermere Corning Mill Faran Coab-pir Victoria Rothwell Haigh Leeds Thomas Hopton George Lunn John Worth Win. Worth Samuel Ward Edward Bell Samuel Worth John William Carr Lane Worth Leeds Intelligencer AmEricas New Orleans Col Christy New York Morning Herald

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