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Extract from Song Korg Derly Press
23rd November 1847.
Explosion of the "Yesso"
Great Loop of Life
A gloom was thrown
over
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the town yesterday.
morning by the occurrence of a terrible accident on the steamer
"Yesso Captain Ashton from the Coast Port. The vessel was,
being
moored alongside Mecers Douglas Lafrack and Cos wharf between half hast seven
and eight o clock when a terrible explosion wok place and the forward part of the ship
was enshrouded in a dence clond of Steam The pressure of steam at the time was 14, thes the of the back plates of the starbound boiler The had given way and was blown out steam rucked into the Chiese cabin and forecastle and worked turrible havre there. Swelve men were killed on the spot
and