Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-15
A CYCLONE IN MISSOURI.
KANSAS CITY IN THE PATH OF
THE WHIRLWIND.

DoHh anu Two hundred DAMAGED /,
the City acknowledgement Devasta
tiOn in the Country.
KANSAS CITY, No., May IA destrnc
tive cyclone swept across the soutber,
part of this city at five O'Clock sunda,
evening, unroOfing and demolisbing build
lngs for a distance Of two miles. Tn,
track OF the storm was from half bloel
10 TWO blocks wide. Numbers of person.
We're injured and some were killed. TIL,
storm seems to have started at'the south
west part Of the city and touching tb,
suburbs OF Armstrong passed east
efly. At the stock yards the exchange
was unroofed and other buildings de
stroyed or damaged. When it reached
Main street it was diverted
toward the northeast and al
seventh street, near Oliver street. its
advance was checked and its force
seemed TO have been spent at that point
IL was divided into three parts, following
each other over the same course Three
deaths are reported and three injured who
are not likely to recover. The loss is
about $500, 200. Some GOOD bonses are
razed and many cottages and shanties.
Inc English Lutheran Church. at the
corner OF Oak and Fourteenth streets. is
completely wrecked. Reports are coming
IN OF heavy damage elsewhere in. this vi.
cinity. VINO -
\ special dispatch to the Times states
that the storm did considerable damage
at Liberty, Mo-, blowing down small
buildings and damaging large ones. A
large portion OF the root of Marshal Jewell
college was torn away. Damage to a
similar extent is reported from Patton
burg, in Davis county.
In Kansas City at least fifty buildings
were blown down. and two
hundred more were badly damaged.
humps brewery, at the corner
OF Main and Fourteenth streets, suffered
severely, and the new German Evangeli-
cal church, which cost $35,O 900, was
ruined, as was also the new Methodist
church ON Lydia avenue. The line of the
storm extends through the city nearly
three miles, and in its route trees. bricks.
rafters and household effects are scat
tered in endless confusion, blocking
up the roadWays in many places,
From Main street the hurricane
followed Fourteenth street to Grand Ave
nue., and thence to McGee street. DESTROY
ing all the houses on the south side of the
street. For one block. from Oak to LO-
Gust street, on Fourteenth street. all the
Reports from WyandOtte, Kansas,
state that the destruction wrought
in that vicinity is much great
er than was at first
supposed. An appeal for aid has been re-
ceived there from Muncie, railroad STA
tiOn II miles from WyandOtte, indicating
that the disaster is widespread. A repor-
ter drove for several miles through the
county along the track of the storm and
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Many farm houses are gone, and several
persons have been killed. The cylOne
passed over an extent of territory fully 10
miles in length.
The latest report of the killed includes
Wilde Sieber, Mrs. David Reid, and Jos.
Burns. The injured are Jas. .-Drummond.
internally and very seriously; II. Zebrecht.
dangerously, internally: Mrs. Trainor,
about the knees; Mrs. 5. ZOrie, ankle
broken; Mrs. ThOs. j. Dye, dangerously
hurt internally; Mrs. VIM. Mcclellan,
internally: Mrs. Mary jackson. colored,
and her 3-year-old child, fatally internally;
Arthur Whitney, aged IL years. danger
0usly about the head; Mrs. Cynthia
Davis, terribly cut about the head and
face; Frank Jenkins badly cut about the
head and face; two children of Joseph
jackson, one and four years old, not eX-
pected to live. Mr.. Jackson was ill in
bed when the roof was blown from over
his head. Edward Wheeler's child was
badly hurt. Captain j. Burns, an old
bOatman, was standing bv the riverside
when he was struck by the flying timbers
of his house and had his neck broken and
head crushed. Willie Sieber was killed by
the Overturning of a wagon at the circus
grounds. Mrs. Reid was blown against
a tree and had her neck broken. 1t was
reported that two employees of Coles cir
Gus were killed, but this is not confirmed.
Probably definite returns will reduce the
estimate of damage to property to less
than $2jO,0OO. The losses are generally in
amounts from 800 to $4,000, as the de-
was not III the best part of the
city. Many singular freaks of the ele-
ments are recorded. In a house on Me-
Gee street a lady was sitting at a piano
in the second story, when the wind lifted
the upper part of the house and left her
seated in the open air unhurt and with
the instrument undisturbed.
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE telegraph
wires are still Frustrated between here
Southwestern Missouri, and no definite
information regarding the storm has yet
been received. In Il general way tits
stated that the town of OrOnagO was
totally destroyed, and that a number of
persons were injured but not killed. A
relief train was started from
Joplin, but it could not proceed
owing to the railroad track being covered
with fallen timber, and it was obliged to
return. Further efforts are being made
to reach the place both by rail and tele-
graph.
At Liberty, Mo-, several houses were
destroyed or badly damaged, and in the
adjacent county several farm houses and
other buildings were blown down. Fences
were destroyed and trees uprOOted. Capt.
John Thompson was severely injured and
his horse was killed while passing a barn
that was blown down at Missouri City.
On the Missouri river the steamer
Bright Light was torn from her moOrings
and blown across the river and lodged
on a sand bar. 1t is not stated how badly
she was damaged.
Near PattOnsburg the storm was severe,
levelling several houses and blowing
down trees, fences, etc. Fragments of
houses and piees of clothing were blown
into PattOnsburg from across the Grand
river, thus indicating that considerable
destruction was done on the south side of
that stream.
Reports from WyandOtte county esti-
mate the loss there at $4,000. Mrs. Reid
and one child near WyandOtte are dead.
Mr.. Reid and three children are badly
hurt and their recovery is doubtful. The
track of the Missouri Pacific Railroad is
to be Obstructed by land slide
south of Leavenworth and morning trains
had not arrived at noon.
A special from Liberty, Mo-, to the Star
saws: ''The damage done in this town
was slight, but several farms east of here
suffered considerable damage. The stOlm
is reported to have crossed Indian Terri
tory somewhere between McAllister, and
AtOka on the Missouri Pacific Road.
A dispatch from BrOokfield, No., says:
Give persons were killed and ten or tif-
teen wounded at Macon City, on the Ham
nibal Road, forty miles from that place.
The telegraph wires are down on both
sides of Macon City, consequently nothing
can yet be learned"
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, May 14.-lnfOrmatiOn
is received from BOlckOw, few miles
north Of here, that the cyclone passed
over Whitesvllle, Andrew county, last
night, doing very little damage there, but
several farm houses, barns and
and other property in that vicini-
ty. An old lady, who was alone i'll a
house, was carried ten or twenty rods and
died in an hour from the effects OF her IN
juries.. Much damage to farms by the
heavy rain is also reported.
CARTHAGE, Mo-, May 14.-At ,:4O
O'Clock last night cyclone struck the
town of OrOngOa, a few miles west OF here,
and i'm few minutes the town was en-
tirely destroyed except a few dwellings.
Six persons were killed and thirty-three
wounded. many seriously and perhaps
fatally. The storm was not so disastrous
at Webb City as was at first reported.
Very few persons were hurt and none
killed. 4 few houses were unroofed and
some were moved off their foundations.
business signs were carried three miles
from the city by the wind,
Joplin and Carthage escaped with little
ininrv hut the storm PASSED up the