Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-15
SUNDAYS CYCLONE.
The Streets Of Kansas City Tbronged
with People Viewing the Work
Of Destruction
Wrought by the Great StOrm-Partial
List Of the Dead and IDjGred-De.
VISITATION Elsewhere.

ST. LoUIs, May IA Telegraph wires are sill
Frustrated between here and and the scene
of yesterdays cyclone in southwest Missouri,
and no definite information regarding the
storm has yet been received. In 2 general
way it is stated that Oronogo was totally de-
stroyed and a number Of persons injured but
not killed. A relief train was started
from Joplin but it could not proceed owing
to the railroad track, being covered with fall
len timber, and was obliged to return. Fur
Their efforts are being made TO reach the
| place both by train and telegraph and
ii is believed that news OF the situation
there will soon be received. At Liberty,
No, several houses were destroyed or bad
/ ly damaged and in the county adjacent
/ farmhouses and other buildings were blown
down, fences destroyed and trees uprooted.
Capt. John Thompson was severely hurt, and
his horse killed, while passing 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 10 not
| stated whether or not she was damaged.
| Near Pattousburg the storm was severe, lev
cling several houses, blowing down irees,
fences, etc. Fragments OF houses and pieces
! OF clothing were blown into Pattonsburg
| from across Grand river, indicating a GOOD
deal of destruction done on the south side OF
that stream. AT Troy, Ks, sixteen miles
wes. of St. Joseph, two houses were demol.
ished, but nobody was hurt.
The Cyclone at Kansas city.
KANSAS CITY, May 14-Great crowds
| tbroDg the streets this morning 10 the south
ern part OF the city viewing the distraction
wrought By last nights storm. The workmen
are busy clearing the debris from the streets
and patching up such houses as are capable
OF repair and rendering them t.nablo.
Every hing is yet in confusion, and a COM
plete list of the wounded and estimates of
the loss oil property cannot be obtained before
this afternoon The following is the latest
| reported
WILLIE sIEBEN, MRS. DAVID REID: JOS
THE INJURED.
JOS DRUMMoND, injured internally very seri-
II. sEEBRECHT, dangerously injured inter.
nally.
MRS. TRAINER. injured about tAe knees.
MRS. s. ZORIE, ankle broken.
MRS. TH0S. ]. DYE, dangerously injured inter
A three ear-old child of Mrs. Mary Jackson
colored, fatally injured internally.
I,
gerously injured 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 Jos. Jackson, one four years old
Jackson was lying i'll in bed when the roof was
taken from over his head.
A child OF Ed Wheeler, badly hurt
Capt. Jos. Burns, an old boatm an, was stand
ing by the river side when struck BY the
HUip har Of
broken and head crushed. Willie Sieben
was killed by the overturniug of wagon al
the circus grounds. Mrs Reid was thrown
against tree and her neck broken. It was
| reported that two employees of Coles circus
were killed, but this is not confirmed. 1t is
probable that definite returns will reduce the
amount OF damage to property below the
estimate of last night, and that it will be
less than $250,000. The losers are almost
inuumerable, but generally for amounts
ranging from 500 to $4,000, as the destruc.
ton was chiefly among the houses in the
less closely built part of the city, generally
among the smaller dwellings, and did not
extend to the stores or more prominent
buildings. No reports have been received
this morning from outside the city, as the
telegraph wires are not yet restored, but they
are being rapidly repaired and will be work
ing in few hour.. Ii is probable that the
damage without the city is not 80 great as
was apprshended from tie mesger reports
gathered last night.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Later.-Later inquiry does not add 10 the
list OF killed and injured sent this morning
A number of Others received scratches and
bruises, but not seriously hurt, and those of
the injured in the city previously reported,
il is now thought will all recover. Prof
Greenwood, superintendent of the city
schools, received painfnl bruises and had an
ankle sprain: d, being peited by flying debris
man named S ein, oa East Twelfth street,
had his clothes literally torn from his body,
being stripped almost to his underclothing.
Many singular freaks of the ffut element
are recorded. In a house on MCGEE street
lady was sitting at piano in the eecond
story. The wind lifted the upper part OF the
house and left her sitting in open air uuhurt
and her instrument undisturbed. The loss
10 the city is now placed at $500, 900 or m ore
Much of it, such as damaged shrubbery aud
household goods, canuot be computed. To-
dividual losses on buildings are generally
below $1,000, being numerous
detailed statement is impracticsble.
KsmpPs brewery, one church and
several Of the better houses are damsged
from $4,000 TO $4,000, but the large aggregate
| is made up of small amounts. Reports
| Wyandotte county estimate the loss at $780,
| 600. OF the Reid family home, near Wysn-
dot,e, Mrs. Reid and one child are dead, and
Mr.. Reid and three other children are badly
hurt; their recovery is doubtful. 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 railroad is reported
ebstructed by q land slide soulhaof Lsaven-
worth, and the morning trains had not ar
! rived at noon.
Tue Stars Liberty (Mo) special says:
"The damage done in town was slight. Sew
eral farms mile east suffered, and a few
houses we're partly demolished" Tee Storm
is reported to have crossed the Indisn Terri
tory somewhere between McAllister and
Atoks, on the Missouri Pacific railroad. The
wires are down between these two places. A
dispatch 'FRONT.' Brookfeld, Mo-, at 2:30 O'Clock
this morning says that five persons were
killed and ten or fifteen wounded at Macon
| City, on the Hannibal road, forty miles from
| there. Wires are down on both sides OF
Macon, therefore nothing confrmatory can
be learned yet.