The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-15
THE CYCLONE AT KANSAS CITY

KANSAS CITY, May 11.-At about
/ 1920 o'clock this morning clouds be-
gan gathering over the city. The
darkness was almost like night, and
people fed with blanched faces to
places OF safety. The storm struck the
city in full force about 20 minutes
past l /, and ragged for half an hour.
The streets became rivers of water,
carrying boxes and signs and similar
articles. The Lathrop school building
which consisted Of a main building, to
which an art wing had been added,
with tower and bell over main part,
which had been condemned as unsafe.
This morning the building was filled
with children, many of whom became
nearly frantic oyer the appalling dark
ness and stiffness which preceded the
tempest. When the wind struck the
tower it yielded with a crash, and car
rying down the heavy bell, plunged
through the lower floors into the base
ment. The main building is mass
of ruins within the walls which still
stand. The wing was comparatively
unlniured, and the scholars there were
unhurt. In the main building how
ever, the falling floors precipitated the
terrified children to the basement,
where masses of bricks and beams
crushed them to the ground and bur
led them. The gale soon subsidized and
the work of rescuing was undertaken
by willing hands. The dead and in
iured were taken out and carried to a
house adjoining which was turned into
a hospital, where parents and friends
Of the little ones gathered, each utter
ing heart-rending cries as they recog-
nized in the married and bleeding form
those whom they loved a dozen dead
were taken out during the day.
At No. 10, west 3D. street, was
three story brick building, the third
story used by Hoar Bros for an over
ali factory, and the first and second
floors by the Graham paper Co. In
the factory were . employees, chiefly
girls. When the storm broke they
started for the cellar Of the building,
and when it fell with crash, it being
RACED to earth, most OF the aarighted
girls were caught III the ruins. -Four
haye been taken out dead, number
Of Others wounded, and some are still
missing.
The county court house was wrecked
and deputy Sheriff Daugherty was
caught and killed. An Cd building
occupied by L. S. Engineers was also
wrecked, falling on Smith & Mofat's
spice mill, killing Mr.. Smith and bad
ly iniuring Mr.. Monat and three Of
the employees Total number of killed
"a; and others will die from injuries
To Illustrate the inconsistency
and blind obst1nancy of ONE instances
of the striking mania, we quote below
that Of the foundrymen of Williams
burg, New York. When the demand
was sent in to the proprietors it was
acceded to. But, as the firm could
not pay the increased wages on the ex-
listing selling prices, they raised the
estimates on their goods to CORE
spond with the advance in labor
The orders were at once withdrawn or
cut down by their customers, as those
who had made them could not pay
the advance asked. As the men in
sisted On keeping the strike wages up,
fourteen Of them had to be laid of for
want of work. The Knights demand
ed that the men laid off should be re-
instated, whereupon the proprietors
had to close, as they had nothing fer
them to do. In effect the men said to
the proprietors: "We want ten per
cent. more wages, and although buy
ers refuse to pay you ten per cent.
more for your goods, so as to enable
you to pay the increase in wages, we
must all be kept at work and fourteen
of us must be paid for doing nothing"
This is the absured position of the
men, and when they come to make
that demand universal there viii be
the same result in other factories that
there was in this iron foundry.-La
Crosse Leader.