Connecticut western news., 1886-05-19
\ FEARFUL TORNADO.
MANY CHILDREN IN KANSAS CITY
 CRUSHED IN REBUILDING.
\ Tower Brushes Through to the Cellar-A Factory Goes Down Killing Four Girls Twenty.fOur Dead from the Storm.

About 10.30 omnibus storm clouds began gathering over the city, appearing first in the northeast and surging westwardly across the city. They turned suddenly about in their course and descending rapidly broke upon the city i'll terrible bursts of wind and rain. The storm struck the city in full force about 11.20 o'clock 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 swept up by the flood.
 The Lathrop school building consisted of main building, to which an art wing had been added, and was surmounted by tower, which has been twice condemned, once within & few weeks. The building was crowded with chil dren, many of whom went nearly frantic with grief over the appalling darkness and the stiffness which preceded the tempest. The wind swept madly from the west and seemed to concentrate it's force in descent upon the tower, which yielded with a-crash, and, carry ing down the heavy bel plunged through the intervening floors to the basement. The main building is mass of ruins. within shattered walls which still stand. The wing was com paratively uninjured, and the pupils in there remained unhurt. In the main building, however, the effect was awful. The falling floors precipitated the terrified children to the basement, where masses of bricks and beams crushed them to the ground and buried them from view. The gale quickly subsided, and the work of rescuing was undertaken by eager hands.
 The dead and wounded were taken out as quickly as possible and carried to the Ma tatorium adjoining, which was turned into hospital. Here the parents and friends of the little ones soon gathered, each searching for his or her own, and uttering heartrending cries as they recognized in the maimed and bleeding forms those whom they loved. Among the first taken out several we're dead and one or two mangled almost beyond recognition, their clothing torn and their bodies covered with dust and mortar.
 Many heroic scenes were enacted during the rescue and by the wounded children, some of whom seemed to have greater control than their elders. One girl half buried in the de- bris, over whom rescuers were busy, begged them to leave her and help boy beside her, because she said, he was only five years old. The scenes in the Natatorium as the little ones were brought in and laid upon improvised cots, the dead placed together upon one side, were pitiful beyond expression. A dozen dead were taken out during the day and the bodies | sent to the houses of sorrowing families and several of the children belonged to prominent families of the city.
 | A three-story brick building, the third floor of which was used as an overall factory, and the first and second floors by the Graham Paper | Company. In the factory were about twenty | five employees, chiefly girls. They, when the storm broke out, started for the cellar. The building fell with crash, being entirely razed, and most of the enlightened girls were caught in the ruins. Four have been taken out dead, 8 number of others are wounded and some are | still missing. A force of laborers worked all night, by the fickering lights, upturning con. | fused masses of bricks and timbers. | The County Courthouse was erected nearly | twenty years ago for hotel purposes, but when | completed was purchased by the county. The storm struck the northwest corner, blowing in | the roof and the major portion of the third east end was blown into the street, and Dep uty Sheriff Dougherty was caught and killed. All others succeeded in getting out of the building alive. The jail is located in the Judge Slower adjourned court just before the storm descended. A portion of the roof in falling struck the chair the Judge had just va | eated.
 The Coffee and Spice Mills of Smith & Mof- fatt. a three-story building, was also demol- | ished, and in falling brought with it the two story building adjoining, which was occupied by the United States Engineers. Frank Smith, the senior of the firm, was killed, and MT. Moffatt and three employees were seri- ously hurt. Part of the Hannibal and St. Joseph R. R. bridge was broken by the gale. KILLED AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE.
 Josie Mason, aged twelve. 1 Bessie 1nscoe, nine years.
 Nellie Ellis, eleven years. Julia Ramey, twelve years. Ruth JamisOn, ten years. | Edna c. Evans, eleven years | Robert Sprague, eleven years.
 L. T. Moore, Jr., twelve years son of L. T. Moore, one of the most prominent business nen in the city.
 Richard Terry, eleven years.
 Mary Lambert, twelve years.
 May Bishop, nine years. | Ida Bowes, Superintendent of the second | door of the school.
 | Nine were injured severely. KILLED AT THH FACTORY.
 Jennie Fitzgerald, aged twenty, skull crushed, 1eck broken, home Kansas City, Kan.
 Willie Eckman, aged sixteen.
 Nina Crane, aged twenty-two.
 Nellie Camannaugh, twenty-one.
 Katie Creodon, seventeen.
 William R. Towne, nineteen.
 Thirteen were badly hurt. | KILLED AT THE COURTHOUSE.
 Henry Dougherty, Deputy Sheriff, twenty eight.
 Wm. Hedges, Deputy Recorder. | Edward Hedges, Jas. Chase and Eugene Moore, are among the injured.