The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-15
THE KANSAS CITY CYCLONE.
Latest From tho Scene Of tho Whlrlwind
The Killed and Other Losses.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May IA very
destructive cyclone swept through the
southern and eastern part OF the city AZ .
Mr.. j. &. Horton, on Drip street was par
italy destroyed. In the Fourth Ward the
houses Of Rev A. ID. Madeira, A. Glenn,
Upton Ely, ID. S. Irwin, Il. j. Frey and
Keefer's grocery house were demolished
and ruined. The wind blew off u corner of
the house OF Mr.. Charles DagRett. On
MCGEE street the houses OF Mr.. John
Hengee, DR.. Crow and others were de-
stroyed. Crossing Oak street, the new
church OF the German Evangelical Society,
but recently completed at a cost OF $35, 900,
houses on Fourteenth street, facing the
park, from Oak to Locust streets.
A number Of frame and brick struct-
urcs at Thirteenth and Cherry
streets were destroyed At Holmes
and Thirteenth streets Coles circus
was about reoadlng its tents. A
number OF small boys were standing about.
When The storm came up one OF the boys,
Willie Sben, eleven years old, took refuge
behind large wagon. The wagon was
overturned and he was crushed to death
beneath 1t. The fine house OF Mr.. B. S.
Pierson on Twelfth and l.. Manl0ve's on
Harrison were blown down. On Lydia
avenue the frame house Of Mr.. Downing
was destroyed, and on Ninth street east
OF Lydia avenue the new Methodist
chapel was scattered to the winds.
The roof OF the Stock Exchange
was blown off and the boat house OF Joe
Burns, a well-known Missouri River
steamboalman, was knocked 10 spllnters.
The track OF the cyclone covered distance
Of about three miles. The storm was ac-
COMMANDED nv tprrppta af rain and hpatinU
bail The loss on property will reach
1900, 900. At least fifty buildings were
blown down and 200 more badly damaged.
The character Of property destroyed Is
chiefly dwellings and shrubbery. The
path OF the storm did not touch the busi-
ness part OF the city, and the stores de-
stroyed were small retail establishments in
the residence portion.
THE KILLED,
50 FAR H. known, are four: A citizen, name
unkn0wn two employees OF Coles circus,
and the boy Seken above mentioned. The
number of wounded is about fifteen. The
damage by wind across the country west of
Wyandotte was principally to fruit farms,
aud the loss Is placed at $40, 900. Four
houses were blown down. David
Reed, farmer, was seriously hurt; his
wife was blown against tree and her neck
broken. She died instantly. p. W.
Mathews, with o-yesr.old child In his
arms, was blown 900 feet through the air
and dropped unhurt. Mrs. Smith and five
Others OF family we're sitting
In small farm house, when the building
was lifted up and carried over their heads.
No one was hurt. A large number OF fam
lilies were rendered temporarily homeless.
rs many houses were 30 damaged as TO be
rendered unsafe unit repaired.
A special from Liberty. Mo. reports that
the storm did considerable damage In that
town, niurlng large building. aud blowing
down small ones. A large portion OF the
roof Of the Marshall Jewell College was torn
away. Considerable damage is reported
from Pationsburg, naviess County, and
special from Missouri City reports that
the cyclone did some damage
there. The steamer Bright Light was un.
fastened and blown across the river, lodg-
ing on a small bar. kilograms from Oro-
nogo, Mo-, received this morning, are to
the effect that the town was completely
destroy ed by the cyclone ofyesterday after
noon. The storm lasted fiffeen. minutes
and then nothing was left OF the place.
Two persons were killed outright and
thirty-three others were wounded. A
relief committee Is being organized there
to-day.
A special from St. Joseph states that
heavy thunder and wind storm passed over
Troy, Kansas, sixteen miles west OF 81.
Joseph, at clock yesterday afternoon.
The houses OF +. l.. Weltop and
Thomas Wright were demolished. No one
was hurt.
Already the workmen are busy cleaning
the debris from the streets aad PACKING up
such houses issare capable OF repair and
rendering them tenable. Everything Ia yet
IN coDfu.i W. q. complete list OF the
wounded aud estimates OF the loss Of
property cannot be obtained yet. Prof, j.
NJ. Greenwood. Superintendent of the
Public Schools. had his ankle broken and
head cut The small loss Of life 10 re-
markabc. Hundreds OF houses were TO-.
tally demolished and many were buried
beneath the ruins, and II seems almost a
miracle that no more lives were lost.