The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-12
TERRIBLE CYCLONE.
The Vicinity Of Kansas City,
Mo, Swept.
A MOST DISASTROUS STORM.
Crest De,truetiou of Property and n
Long List OF Fatalities
Other News Notes.
A Missouri Cyclone.

Kansas Cry, May ia fearful
storm of wind and rain swept over this
city to-day continuing from IL O'Clock
TO noon. The court house on Second
Street is totally destroyed above the
second story. A number of persons
were hurt there. but none killed as far
as known at this time. Lathrop school
building at Eighth Street is partially
wrecked and many children were caught
in the ruins; seven are said to be killed
and the full extent of the disaster is not
vet known. The overall factory on
Second Direct is 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 l O'Clock a report from
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 missing. AT the Western
Union Telegraph but one wire is work
ing out of the city. A communication
has been established with ST. Louis over
that wire by way of Dallas. Galveston.
New Orleans and Memphis. A span of
the bridge next to Harlem is blown
down, and il is reported that forty per-
sons are killed at the bridge.
One span at the north end o. the rail-
road bridge across the Missouri River
is blown into the river. blocking the
Hannibal & st. Joe, Rock Island. Wa
bash g. Kansas City and st. Joe &
Council Bluffs railways.
Eight girls have been taken out OF the
overall factory. four of whom were
dead. Many others are in the ruins.
but there is scarcely a hope for their
lives. In the confusion it is impossible
TO ascertain definitely the extent of the
calamity, but it is said over twenty EN- =
ployees are imprisoned in the basement
Of the factory. The disastrous fury of
the storm was confined to the north end
of the city, except in the destruction Of
the Lothrop 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 build
ing is in this portion OF the city and the
poles were heavily weighted with wires
down in q tangled heap. Many OF The
wires were also carried down with the
broken bridges.
The following list is as nearly accurate
az can be given at4 O'Clock. The tele-
Phone wires are all down and this in
creases greatly the difficulty in getting
early and reliable information. Among
those reported killed. there may be one
or two not dead. At Lathrop School.
killed-Nellie Ellis, May Bishop, Josie
Martin. and her little brother, Kate
Smith. Ruth Jameson, Bessie Insco, Mat
tie Moore, Edith Patch, Robert Sprague,
and l.. L. Moore. Jr. Among the in
jured are May Hooker. badly hurt; q
child named Terry, Edna Evans, Eva
HaZlitt, Nellie Curry, Maud Askew. At
the water works building, two story
building used as the United States En-
gineer's office, W. A. Weldon was in
jured about the head and breast, quite
serious. Major Livermore was hurt
about the head; Lieutenant F. II.
Young, knee broken and hurt about the
head; Nelson hurt about the head.
At Smith & Moffatt's spice mill ad-
joining, Frank Smith was killed and
several others bruised.
AT the court house on Second and
Main Streets, Deputy Sheriff Henry
Dougherty is still missing. He Is sup
posed to be in the ruins.
Mr.. Moon, of Independence, was dan
gerously hurt; Ed. Hodges, back
broken: VIII Hodges. leg broken;
James Chase, badly hurt. The prison
ers in the Jail in the basement OF the
building were scared. but unhurt. They
remained in the building, which is in
tact on the outside from the second
story down, the third story having been
demolished.
At the overall factory on West Third
Street. the search is still in progress,
and several persons are still missing.
The following are known to have been
killed: Jennie Fitzgerald, Willie Eek
man and a woman. unidentified; Mary
and Maggie Bierd will die. Several
others are in dangerous condition.
Julian and Joseph Hoar. proprietors,
are badly bruised. The overall factory
occupied the third floor. the Graham
Paper Company occupied the second
floor. Its employees were unhurt.
About 10:30 o'clock this morning.
ominous storm clouds began gathering
over the city. The first appeared on
the northeast. and surging westward
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 all the lighter
objects before them. The darkness was
almost like night, and the people hed
TO the nearest shelter and awaited with
blanched faces the fury OF the tempest. |
The clouds seemed to Craze the roofs
Of the highest buildings and
poured out their torrents in ap-
parently solid masses for q time.
The storm struck the city Iin fullforce
about IL 20. and ragged for half an hour:
The streets were running rivers OF
water, carrying boxes sad signs and
other similar freight blown from the
buildings or swept up by the flood A
of vehicles were overturned,
and in numerous instances the drivers
their horses to their fate and |
sought refuge in the stores and houses |
Some hail accompanied the storm, but
the fail was moi great, otherwise the
loss to property would have been enor-
mons from the water streaming In at
the broken windows. As II was, the |
windows IN quite s large number OF
buildings were blown IN, and goocs |
and furniture were water soaked. |
All this. however. proved entirely in
when the full extent oil the