St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-12


Suddenly Stricken Down and Sent
to Meet Their Maker.
Large Numbers of People Said to
Have Been Buried in the
Ruins of Buildings.
Unfortunate Working Girls Killed
While Endeavoring TO Reach
Place of Safety.
Terrible Disaster at Kansas City.
Special to the Globe.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 11.-Shortly
after II o'clock this morning a terrible
: wind and rain storm struck this city and
caused great loss of life and property. The
Lathrop school, situated at the corner Of
Eighth and May streets, was the scene OF a
terrible disaster, the building falling to the
+ ground and entombing hundred haplesS
children. The particulars of the wreck of
the school house will be found below. The
grain and paper house at No. 106 West
Third street was also blown down,
and great loss of life resulted.
The space between the clouds and the
earth presented an almost perfectly white
!, appearance, made by the rain, and blown
in every imaginable direction by the wind
as the storm advanced. 1t swept every
-small object away from its path. These
filled the air and fell to the ground, only to
be lifted up again and to be carried to a
city, not aware of the seriousness of the
storm, were caught in it and lifted bodily
from their feet. Many were hurled fifteen
or twenty feet away, receiving
TERRIBLE BRUISES.
In the suburbs of the city large number
of frame houses were blown down and the
inmates barely escaped with their lives.
The scene around the Second street court
house is one terrible to describe. The full
force of the wind fell upon it with terrific
effect. Among those injured at the court
house were: Ed Hodges, back broken;
VIII Hodges, leg broken: James Walden,
dug out from under the debris in front
of the court house, bruised and bleed
ing; Steinburg, young abstract man liv
ing at 719 Wayne street, badly injured
about the body; Henry Dougherty, deputy
sheriff, missing; James Chase, clerk of
court, hurt about the head: Todd Hines,
1tmped from the Second-story window and
escaped. The clerks in the recorders Of
fee jumped through windows, and the
books were not put in the safe. but are not
injured. Opposite the court house the old
Santa Fe company building and the Smith
& Moffat spice mills were totally demol-
ished. A large number were rescued from
this building. Several girls were pulled
out in
a SE9n-CoNSCIOUS STATE.
A little boy by the name of Ed Mullen
was picked up with his back badly injured.
Mr.. Smith. one of the proprietors, is now
reported dead. None of the prisoners in
the court house were injured. At IL
o'clock, during the heaviest part of the
great storm, the factory of Thomas Kerr,
10 West Third street, was completely
destroyed and RACED to the ground.
It was soon found that twenty-five
employees, male and female, were missing,
and search was Immediately begun. By
o'clock five bodies and fifteen dying and
wounded people had been removed from
the ruins, leaving five still missing. Besides
these there are two others dead. There
seems to be trouble about the Identification
of the bodies taken from the ruins. Kate
Moran, a girl, worked in the building,
but she is now missing. Willing hands
are still digging at the ruins, and the
wounded are either being removed to their
homes or to the livery stable close by.
Fifty-siX persons have been taken out of
the ruins of the Lathrop school, and
SEVENTEEN Ole THEM ARE DEAD.
The building was entirely destroyed,
burying in the debris the majority of the
children within its walls. By 1:3O o'clock
all the imprisoned were removed and taken
to their homes in carriages or attended to at
DR.. Kellogg's natatorium. No sooner had the
rain ceased and the storm blown over than
the streets became crowded with curious
sight-seers. Friends of the injured and
dead arrived at the different scenes of
death. A gentleman. whose name could
not be learned, in endeavoring to remove
his little boy from the ruins, was struck by
falling piece of timber, and it is thought
fatally injured. AT the same time
that he was removed from the
ruins his little boy was taken
out dead. The shock, combined
with the blow, will probably kill him. One
span of the Hannibal & ST. Joe bridge over
the Missouri river was washed away and
oil traffic over tile bridge is now transferred
via the Missouri Pacific through Leaven-
worth. The damage in Kansas City and
Sedalia will reach an enormous sum.
ANOTHER REPORT.
KANSAS CITY, May 11.-About 1890
o'clock this morning clouds began gather
ing over the city. They first appeared in
the northeast, and surging westerly across
the city turned suddenly about in their course
and, descending rapidly, broke upon the city
in terrific bursts of wind and rain that
swept alllighter objects before them. The
darkness was almost like night, and people
fled to the nearest shelter and awaited with
blanched faces the fury of the tempest
Clouds seemed to Craze the roofs of the
highest buildings and poured out torrents in
apparent solid masses for time. The
storm struck the city IN full force about
twenty minutes past II and ragged for half
an hour. The streets were running rivers
of water, carrying boxes and signs and other
similar freight blown from the buildings or
fwept up by the flood. A number Of We