Hamburg Fire Leaves City in Ruin and Despair
Eyewitness letters from Hamburg describe a devastating blaze that began in a Steinstrasse warehouse and engulfed a wide area, destroying hundreds of houses, public buildings, and churches. English engineers and merchants helped fight the fire amid changing winds, with heavy losses and a vast displacement of residents.
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HamBurc
Burgher Guard
Shames
Hoffen Market
Nicolaisch
Nicolai
Catherinen Canal
Rchant
London
Hamburg
Phenix
Sun
Globe
Thomson and
Lindley
Waltona
Senate
Jungferstieg
Alley
Thomson
Senhalle
Eferstieg
Juvay Nicur
Rathhaus
Streit
Jungfersteig
M. Heine
Paris papers report toll from railway disaster and conspiracies
Paris journals Wednesday carry updates on the fatal railway wreck near Paris and a suspected king’s assassination plot. Reports tally 45 to 87 dead in various lists, with hundreds more injured as a 17 carriage left bank train crashed and burned near Versailles, many identified by clothing and jewelry in a grisly scene.
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Col. Hodges
William Lindley
Hamburg
Senate
Giles
Thomson
Bergedorf
Youngfer Street
Ulster
St. Peter's
Tivoli
Bremen
Schileswig
Holstein
Schmidt
Deichstrasse
Steintwiete
Rodingsmarkt
Grutztweite
Hopfenmarkt
Nicolai Church
Neueburg
Bohnenstrasse
Bursen Halle
Muhlenbrucke
Burstah
Senate House
Bank
Old Exchange
Commercium
Nest
Grosse Backerstrasse
Eimbeckschen Hans
Dornbusch
Pelzerstrasse
Filterstrasse
Fishmarket
Konigstrasse
Jungfernsteig
Beder Kunst
Bergastrasse
St. Peter's Steeple
Grosse
Kleine Paulstrasse
Zuchthausstrasse
Spinnhaus
Alsterthor
Holzdam
Drillhaus
Detentionshaus
Rabeisen
Schachstrasse
Rosentrasse
Pferdemarkt
Breitenstrasse
Church of St. Gertrude
Kurtzetwiete
Wassertwiete
Neueweg
Liebenstrasse
Monkedamm
Alte Wallstrasse
Graskeller
Altona
Hanover
Elbe
Saxony
Hampurc
France
Paris
Quotidienne
Messager
Presse
Courrier Francais
Toulon
Hugon
Tonnere
Naples
Tunis
Algiers
Mahon
Youlon
Levant
Tangiers
Brest
Rhine
New Zealand
Correo Nacional
Gibraltar
ST. Paul's
Wilberforce
Prince George of
Cambridge
Canterbury
Armagh
London
Winchester
Chester
Lincoln
Llandaff
M.P
Scobel
Burnett
Sturge
Mott
Moss
Good
J. Craig
Leamington
Tue
Jane Jones
Myfod
Montgomeryshire
Salopian Journal
Kelvedon
Chelmsford Chronicle
Eastern Counties Railway
Nestion
Coggeshall
Colchester
Thomas Elsly
Versailles
Chemin Des Gardes
Barriere du Maine
Prefecture of Police
M. Gabriel Delessert
Meudon
Bellevue
Sévres
Hospital Necker
Quay d'Orsay
Mont Parnasse
Georges
Amville
Bontemps
Tixier
Dupin
M. Rebel
M. Milhau
Legion of Honour
M. Guilland
Polytechnic School
M. Bertrand
Seine
Rue de Sévres
Serres
Mendon
M. de Grugal
Depuy
Aveyron
Sevres
Paris and
St. Cloud
Paris and Meuden
Meudon disaster leaves many dead as trains burn
A Meudon Versailles train crash killed at least 60 and injured many more as carriages burned, with survivors pulled from the wreck. Admiral Dumont D Urville among the dead. rescue efforts, streets turned into makeshift hospitals, and officials investigate locomotive causes and four wheeled engine risk.
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Paris
Guipgret
Lancers
59Th Regiment
Gazette Des Tribunaux
Rue de la Poterie
Versailles
Univers
Admiral Dumont D'Urville
Admiral D'Urville
Navy
South Pole
Charles X
Cherbourg
England
Meudon
Count Montalivet
Academy of Sciences
M. Cordier
Minister of the Interior
Messrs. Combes and
de Senarmont
Engineers of Mines
Sharp and Roberts
M. Elie de Beaumont
Délats
Aessager
Débats
M. Chavardes
Bezieres
Hospital du Globe
Rue Croix Des Petit Champs
Mignot
M. Droitecurt
Mauconsell
Beathemey
A.M. Albinet
d’Enfer
M. Martin
Bellevue
George
Matthew Murray
Toad
Madienal
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Nel
Dombor-gate
Cambor
Damthor-gate
Damthor-strasse
Esplanade
Jungfernstein
Neuer Jungfernsteig
Neuer Wall
Grasse Bleichen
St. Petersburgh
Stadt Paris
Stadt London
Solomon Heine
Gausemarkt
S.S.W
St. Petre's
Harburg
Bergstrasse
Steinthor
Nineveh
Belvedere Hotel
Steinestrasse
St. Petre’s
Deiststrasse
Nicolai Churchyard
Grosse and
Kleine Burstad
Attewallstrasse
Monkedain
Johannesstrasse
Kleine Beckerstrasse
Newnburg
Schmeidestrasse
Europe
Sangfernsteig
Jacobi
Royalexchange
Phenix Fire Company
Deutschstrasse
Neuenwall
Grosse Bleichen
Neuen
St. Peter's Church
St. Peter’s
Antwerp
Netherlands
St. Nicholas
St. Jacob's
St. Catherine’s
St. Michael's
Lloyd's
Jenisch
Parish
Cuxhaven
Hamruno
Max Secheckendory
Countess of Lonsdale
Stranack
N.E
Exchange
Countess of Jonsdale
Syndics
Messrs
Giles and
St. Gertrude’s Church
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