A FATAL STAMPEDE
♦ LONDON, January 12. In a stampede of children from a cinematograph matinee in Harvey Hall, Baraslcy, Yorkshire, 16 were killed and 40 injured. Ai Barnsley the children were admitted to the gallery for a penny apiece, many of them being only four or five years of °For 400 seats 600 were passed in, while 400 more were on the long winding stairs. An attendant suggested the transfer of the surplus to the pit, and a rush ensued.Those hurrying downstairs overwhelmed those ascending, till there was a mass of human beings wedged into a small space at the foot of 'the stairs. There were heartrending scenes in the hall of the mortuary when the mothers were identifying their children. January 13. King Edward has expi^essed his horror at the accident, and his warmest sympathy with the p_arentH_
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Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 26
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139A FATAL STAMPEDE Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 26
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