The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-22
Kansas City Visited Tuesday by Dis
Isl astreus Cyclone. a
In Less Of Life and Destruc-
ton Of Property. hes
The Court House and Several Other
Buildings Demolished. ss 'atl
The Tempest Strikes a School House
and Kills Many.
Parents Frantic with Grief Hunting fol-
their Lost Little Ones.
Over Twenty Persons Killed, and Many
More Woanded.

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from ii O'Clock until noon. The
court house, on Second street, was
totally demolished above the second
story. A number Of persons were
hurt there, but none killed as far as
known at this time. The Lathrop
school building on Eighth street,
was partially wrecked land many
children caught in the nins. Seven
are said to have been killed and the
full extent of the disaster is not yet
known. An overall factory, on Sec
ond street, was blown down and five
deaths are reported from there, out
of fifteen girls at work in the build
ing, while nearly all the others are
wounded. At O'Clock report
from the Lathrop school makes ten
badly hurt besides those killed. The
old water works building, near the
court house, was blown down, and
one or two persons there are miss
ing.
At the Western Union telegraph
Office but one wire is working out of
the city. Communication has been
established with st. Louis over that
wire by way of Dallas, Galveston,
New Orleans and Memphis.
BRIDGES BLOWN DOWN.
The span of a bridge next to Har-
lem was blown down, and it is re-
ported that forty persons were killed
at the bridge. .Ne
One span at the north end of the
railroad bridge across the Missouri
river, was blown into the river, block
ing the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Rock Island, Wabash, and Kansas
City, st. Joe and Council Bluffs
roads.
Eight girls have been taken out
of the ruins at the factory, four of
whom are dead. Many others arc
in the ruins, but there is scarcely a
hope for their lives. In the .confus-
ion it is impossible to ascertain def
nitely the extent of the calamity
but it is said that over twenty en-
ployes are imprisoned in the base
ment of the factory. The disastrous
fury of the storm was confined to the
north end of the city, except in the
destruction of the Lathrop public
school building, on Eighth street
and buildings generally, excepting
those mentioned, withstood the force
of the storm. The main office of the
Western Union telegraph building
is in this portion of the city and the
poles are heavily weighted with
wires which were broken off, letting
the wires down in a tangled heap
Many wires were also carried dow
with the broken bridges.
AT 3 o'clock P. NJ, as nearly as car
be learned amid the intense excite
ment and confusion, about twenty
persons are known to be dead Tel
ephone wires are all down, and this
increases greatly the difficulty il
getting early and reliable informa
ton. igso. s.,i
A VIVID DESCRIPTION oF THE DISASTER
About 1890 o'clock this mornin.
ominous storm clouds began gather
ing over the city. They first appear
ed in the northeast and surgin:
westwardly across the city, turned
suddenly about on their course ant
descending rapidly broke upon tn
city in terrific bursts of wind an,
rain that swept all lighter object
before them. The darkness was al
most like night and people fled t.
the nearest shelter and awaited witt
blanched faces the fury of the TEN
pest The clouds seemed to graz,
the roofs of the highest building
and poured out their torrents in a
apparently solid mass for time
The storm struck the city in full
force about. twenty minutes past
and ragged for half an hour Tn
streets were running rivers of watel
carrying boxes and signs and othe
similar freight blown from the build
ings or swept up by the flood. Som
hail accompanied the storm, but th
fall was not great, otherwise the los
to property would have been enol
nous from water streaming in a
4 broken windows.
TERRIBLE SCENES AT LATHRop SCHOOL
The -Lathrop school building occl
pied prominent site at the cornt
of Eighth and Main streets 1t col
sisted of main building, to whic
an art wing was added The buil(
ing was surmounted by towe
which for some time had been col
sidercd unsafe 1t had been twit
condemned. This morning the built
, ing was crowded with children, man
of whom went nearly frantic wit
grief over the appalling darknes
which preceded the tempest. III
winds swept madly across Broadws
from the West, and seemed to CO.
) centrate it's entire force in a descel
E upon the tower which yielded with
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