The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-18
MANY EhS
/ Were Produced by the Hurri-
cane at Kansas City on
Yesterday.
Nearly Thirty Persons Killed and
Still a Larger Number
Injured,
Several of Whom Have Little,
if any, Chance of Re-
cOvery.
The Dome of a Condemned
School Building Scattered
to the Winds.
The Monster Bell Goes Crashing
Downward on Its Work OF
Destruction,
And the Result is the Mangling
of More than Score
of Children.
The Scene a Heart Rending One
and Simply Beggars De-
scriptien.
An Overall Factory Demolished
and Many of the Employees
Killed.
They Take Refuge i'm the Gel.
lar and Are Buried i'm
the Debris.
A Portion of the Court House
Also Suffers and Others Meet
Their Death.
The Railroad Bridge Across the
Missouri Only Partially
Blown Down.
The Worst Storm That Kansas
City Has Ever Known i'm
Her History.
- Ecfs. .
The Railroad Bridge Across the
Missouri Only Partially
Blown Down.
The Worst Storm That Kansas
City Has Ever Known i'm
Her History.
The Damage to Property Esti-
mated at Not Less Than
$50, 600.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 1l.-About half
past 10 o'clock this morning ominous
storm clouds began gathering over the city.
They first appeared in the northeast, and
surging westwardly across the city, turned
suddenly about in their course, and de-
scending rapidly broke upon the city in
terrific bursts of wind and rain that swept
all lighter objects before them.
The darkness was almost like night, and
people fed to the nearest shelter and
awaited
WITH BLANCHED FACES
the fury of the storm. The clouds seemed
to Craze the roofs Of the highest buildings
and poured out their torrents in appar-
entity solid masses for time. The storm
struck the city In full force about twenty
minutes past ii o'clock and ragged half an
hour.
Streets were running rivers of water,
carrying, boxes, signs and other similar
freight blown from buildings or swept up
bv the food A number of vehicles were
overturned, and in numerous instances
drivers abandoned their horses to their
fate and sought refuge in stores and
houses. Some hail accompanied the storm,
but the fall was not great, otherwise the
LOSS TO PROPERTY
would have been great from water stream
ing in at broken windows. AS it was, the
windows in quite large number of build
ings were blown in and goods and turni-
ture water soaked. All this, however,
proved entirely Insignificant when the full
extent of the disaster wrought by the storm
became known.
The Lathrop school building occupied a
prominent site al the corner of Eighth and
May streets. 1t consisted of main build
ing, to which an east wing had been added.
The building was surmonnted by tower,
which for some time has been considered
unsafe. 1t has been twice condemned
within few weeks, but no action had been
taken in the matter. This morning the
building was
CROWDED WITH CHILDREN,
many of whom were nearly frantic with
fear over the appalling darkness and the
Slllluccc ptSSCASo saiO scAApcots LIZ
wind swept madly across Broadway and
seemed to concentrate its force in a de-
scent upon the tower, which yielded with
crash, and carrying down the heavy bell
plunged through the intervening floors to
the pavement. The main building s a
mass of ruins within shattered walls,
which still stand. The wing was compar-
atively uninjured, and scholars there I'M
hurt In the main building, however, the
effect was awful. The falling floor precip-
itated the children to the basement,
where masses of bricks and beams crushed
them to the ground and
BURIED THEM FROM VIEW.
Persons near, hearing the crash, made way
as best they could against the beating
storm to the scene. The gale quickly sub
sided and the: werk of rescue was under
taken by eager hands. Owing to the pre-
vailing excitement, at 6rst the work was
not very effective, but the FIRE department!
and police soon arrived and an organized
search was commenced. The dead and