The Wheeling Repository

FATAL ASSEMBLAGE.

A late London paper gives the following melancholy relation:--

At the execution of Holloway, and Haggerty, the murderers of Mr. Steele, and Elizabeth Godfrey, the murderer of R. Prince, on Monday, one of the most dreadful accidents experienced for a long series of years happened, owing to the immense crowd which assembled to witness the awful scene, in which the press became so great that, humanity shudders to relate the fatal consequences, but sorry we are to say that 24 men and 3 women were trampled upon and killed, and 13 men and two women were wounded, some of them having the flesh torn from their legs arms &c. —Total 42, in St. Bartholomews Hospital.

Just at the moment that the unhappy culprits were about to be launched
off, there was a general rush amongst the crowd to get towards the debtors' door, where the criminals there stood on the platform. A most dreadful scene then took place. The approaches to the place were completely blocked up with carts, filled with spectators, and when some of the crowd began to move away the pressure became dreadful. Some fell, and others falling over them they were trampled to death. Terror took possession of the crowd,- they became desperate, and their efforts only contributed to increase their danger. The people on the house tops, and in the windows, who saw their error, waved their handkerchiefs, and made signals to them to stand quiet, but to no purpose. All was confusion and uproar, the men fighting their way, and the women screaming in the most piercing manner.