Another terrible accident from panic has occurred at Liverpool. The
congregation of the Church of St. Joseph has a crypt used as a schoolroom, and on Sunday evening, owing to the immense congregation which attended, a supplementary service was held in the crypt. A drunken man intruded, howling, and in the confusion thus created an alarm of fire was raised, which caused a rush at once from church and crypt. The crowds met, and fifteen persons, mostly of the very poor, were trampled to death. This is the third or fourth catastrophe of the kind in a few months, and has renewed the discussion as to the provision of means of egress from public edifices. Perhaps the Builder will inform us whether it is architecturally impossible to make ordinary entrances enormously wide, so wide that crushing is nearly impos- sible. If not, we must submit to be crushed, for it is certain that the public in momenta of panic will not use unaccustomed methods of exit. Some day or other there will be a scene in Exeter Hall
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