Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-14
OVER THIRTY KILLED.
A Tornado Causes Death And
Destruction.

A terrible wind storm struck Kan
sas City, Mo-, at IL o'clock Tuesday
morning and the loss of life was APP
palling. The Lathrop School build
ing was unroofed and twelve chill
dren were killed in the ruins and
many others badly hurt. The court
house and two other large buildings
were also demolished and as many
more lives lost.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Following is a list of the killed and
wounded, so far as ascertained at 10
O'Clock tonight:
KILLED AT THE sCHooL-HoUsE.
Josie Mason, aged IL; Bessie In
scoe, 9 years; Nellie Ellis, IL years
Julia Ramey, years Ruth Jamison,
10 years: Edna c. Evans, IL years
Robert Sprague, Ii years; L. T.
Moore, Jr., u years, son of L. 4.
Moore, one of the most prominent
business men in the city; Richard
Terry IL years; Mary Lambert, II
years; May Bishop, 9years; Edith
Patch, Frank Madison, Matte Moore,
Gardner, Kansas and Jones.
KILLED AT THE OVERALL FACTORY.
James Fitzgerald, aged 20; Willie
Eddleman, IS; Nina Crane, %; Nell
lie Cavanaugh, 81 ; Kate Creedon, II (;
VIM. R. TONNES, 10; Mrs. Ida Bow
ers, Superintendent of the overall
factory, was terribly crushed about
the head and hips, died tonight.
KILLED AT SMITH & MoFFATT's.
Frank P. Smith, proprietor, 80
years John Kane, coffee rooster, % ;
Henry Jackson, colored; Sam Black,
Is.
KILLED AT THE COURT HOUSE.
Henry Gaugherty, Deputy Sheriff,
% years; VIM. Hedges, Deputy Re-
corder, died Tuesday afternoon.
INJURED AT THE SCHOOL.
Maude Askew, aged 10 years,
daughter of Frank Askew, wholesale
leather dealer, ankle broken. may
lose the limb. A young son of Post
master Shelley, severely bruised /;
James Bailey, severe cut over eye !;
Bryce Terry, leg broken; Nellie Cur
ry, arm broken, back hurt; Eva Hart
sell, 10, head cut; Katie Smith, 10,
severely cut and bruised; Margaret
Houser, IL, internally injured, may
die; Mary Hoover, Muyston Boyd,
Cassell Mossand Willie johnson.
INJURED AT THE FACTORY.
Joseph Hoar, proprietor, 50; collar
bone broken, leg fractured; Julian
Hoar, 80, slightly bruised Rose But
Ter, 1871 conclusion of brain, probably
fatal Mamie Creedon, Is, head CASH
ed, probably fatal; Lizzie Riley,
bruised Mary Bird, hurt internally ;
Jessie Woodward, IL, cut in head /;
Annie Tavis, 81, thigh crushed, arm
broken; Maggie Bird. II, bruised ;
Aphulchinson Cutler, 80, arm broken,
head and chest hurt; Kate Carroll,
Is, cut in the face; Annie and Burt
Turner, sisters, bruised; Stephen
Moore, shipping clerk of the Graham
paper factory, cut about head.
INJURED AT THE COURT HOUSE.
Ed. Hedges, clerk, leg broken /;
James Chase and Eugene Moore,
clerks, hurt about the head; VIM.
Scars, clerk; bruised.
INJURED AT UNITED STATES ENGI-
NEER's OFFICE.
W. A. Walden, seriously hurt
about the head and breast; Maj.
Livermore, hurt about the head ;
Lieut.. F. II. Young, skull broken
A man named Nelson, head hurt.
1t is probable that the list will not
be completed for day or two, until
the missing ones are accounted for.
Several of the injured were baby
carried away without their names be-
ing reported.
John Flaherty was struck on the
head by a falling flagstaff in West
Kansas and was killed.
The total property loss is estimated
at $4,000, a portion of which is COW
cred by storm insurance.
STORM AT EVANSVILLE.
AT 6 80 o'clock, p. NJ, the same day
Evansville, Ind, was also visited by
severe wind and rain storm which
did great damage to property. Many
buildings were unroofed and some
houses were blown down. A colored
man named Daniels was killed by
lightning and two unknown men IN
a skiff were lost in the river.