Page:Account of the dreadful accident and great loss of lives which occurred at Kirkcaldy, on Sunday the 15th June, 1828.pdf/2



, 15th June. 1828.

Since the fatal accident which took place in the New Church, Kilmarnock, about five and twenty years ago, when upwards of a score of individuals lost their lives by the falling of a staircase, and the rush which it occasioned, no event of a similar description, and attended with results equally calamitous, has occurred in this country until the fatal catastrophe of Sunday last at. This disaster, however, far transcends every thing of the kind that has yet happened in any place of worship in Scotland; and whether we consider the occasion on which it befel the hapless victims, the sudden and immediate destruction of life of which it was productive, or the still more dreadful and appalling devastation which might have ensued, there can be no doubt that it ought to be regarded, and will long be remembered, as one of the most awful dispensations of Providence, and at the same time one of the most impressive and memorable examples