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From: (Dennis Ahern)
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:13:22 GMT


AMERICA
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A young lady named Blanchard had been killed, and
several persons scalded, by an explosion on board of
the steamer Bay State, from New York to Fall River.

At South Acton, Massachusetts, a powder mill had
exploded and killed two men. The explosion was head
at a great distance, and was supposed to be the shock
of an earthquake.

The screw-steamship Canadian, from Liverpool,
arrived at Quebec on the 3rd inst. ; and the Royal Mail
steamship Canada arrived at Halifax on the 5th. A
letter from Mexico, of October 19, reports that the
town of La Paz, Lower California, had been almost
totally destroyed by a hurricane on the 16th. All the
vessels lying in the harbour at the time were driven
ashore and wrecked ; few lives were lost. The wind
was accompanied by heavy rain, and lasted thirty
hours, blowing during that time from all points of the
compass. The houses spared by the wind were swept
away by the tide.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY--THREE O'CLOCK.--Up to this
time nothing has been heard of the James Baines.

--The Cork Examiner, 19 November, 1856

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Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland
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