The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-15
Many Lives Lost and Large Numbers of
People Injured-Other Towns in
the Vicinity Suffer.
The Loss of Life and Property in and
About Kansas City.
Reports from Yesterdays Storm in Michi-
gan, Eastern Indiana and Ohio
General Storm News.
VIEWING THE WRECK.
Further Particulars Concerning Its Ravages
in Kansas City.

urlhcE concerning ItS IGhVaSeS
in Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 14-Great crowds
throng the streets this morning in the south
ern part of the city, viewing the destruction
wrought by last nights storm. Already the
workmen are busy clearing the debris from
the streets and patching up such houses as
are capable of repairs and rendering them
tenantable. Everything is yet in confusion,
and complete list of the wounded and esti
mates of the loss of property will not be had
before afternoon.
The following are the latest reported
killed: Willie Sieben, Mrs. David Reed, Jos.
Burns. Injured-James Drummond, injured
internally, very serious; H. Lebrecht, dan
gerously injured internally; Mrs.
Trainor injured about the knees;
Mrs. S. Lorie, ankle broken
Mrs. ThomasJ J. Dice, dangerously injured in
ternally; Mrs. William Mcclellan, injured
internally; a three-year-old child of Mrs.
Mary Jackson (coloredl fatally injured in
ternally; Arthur Whitney, aged twelve years,
dangerously injured about the head Mrs.
Cynthia Davis, badly cut about the head and
A''NS' 4oiih 0SAlhAAio, Odhlg NuO aOOub bilS
head and face; two children of Joseph Jack
son, one four years old, not expected to live;
Jackson was lying ill in bed when the roof
was taken from over his head; a child of Ed
ward Wheeler badly hurt.
Captain Joseph Burns, of the killed, an old
boatman, was: standing by the riverside
when he was struck by the fly
ing timbers of his house. His
neck was broken and head crushed. Willie
Sieben was killed by the overturning of
wagon at the circus grounds, Mrs. Reid was
blown against a tree and her neck broken.
II was reported that two employees of Coles
circus were killed, but this is not confirmed.
IL is probable that definite returns will re-
duce the amount of damaged property below
the estimates of last nigbt-that it will be
less than quarter OF a million. The losses
are almost innumerable, but generally for
amounts ranging from 800 to 5000, as the
destruction was chiefly among the houses in
the less closely built portion of the city,
generally among the small dwellings, and
did not extend to the stores or more promi-
nent buildings
No reports have been received this morn
ing from outside the city, as the telegraph
wires are not yet repaired; but they are be-
ing rapidly repaired, and will be in working
order in a few hours. 1t is possible that
the damage without the city is not so great
as was apprehended from the meager re-
ports gathered last night
Later inquiry to-day does not add to the
list of killed and injured sent this morning.
number of others received scratches and
bruises, but were not seriously hurt, and of
those of the injured in the city previously
reported it is now thought that all will re-
cover. Professor Greenwood, superintend-
ent of the city schools, received painful
bruises and had an ankle sprained by being
Dolfa1 hu HUinn dphriG
Stem on East Twelfth street. had his clothes
literally torn from his body, being stripped
almost to his undercothng. Many singular
freaks of the fiftful element are recorded.
In house on MCGEE street lady was sit
ting at 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
the instrument undisturbed
The loss in the city is now placed at $780,
600 or more. Much of it, such as damage to
shrubbery and household goods, cannot be
computed. Individual losses on buildings
are generally below $1,000, being so nu-
merous that detailed statement IS imprac
ticable. Kampf's brewery, one church
and several of the better houses were
damaged $4,000 TO $1,000 But the large aggre-
gate is made up of small amounts. Reports
from the branch of the storm which crossed
Wyandotte county estimate the loss at $40
O00 OF the Reed family, whose home was near
dead and Mr.. Reed and three other children
are so badly hurt that theirrecovery is doubt
full. They were all in the house at the time
of the Storm and the building was torn to
atoms. The track OF the Missouri Pacific is
reported obstructed by a landslide south of
Leavenworth, and the morning trains had
not arrived at noon.
The Stars Liberty, Mo-, special says the
damage done in the town was slight, but
several farms a mile east suffered, and few
houses were partly demolished. The storm
is reported to have crossed into Indian Terri
tory somewhere between McAlister and
Atoka on the Missouri Pacific. The wires
are down between those two places.
A dispatch from Brookfeld, NO., at 2;30
this afternoon says that five persons were
killed and ten or fifteen wounded at Macon
City on the H. & ST. j. railroad, forty miles
from there. The wires are down on both
sides of Macon, therefore nothing confrma-
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