Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-12
DEADLY CYCLONE
Aualn Creates Havoc and Loss of
Life in the West.
Kansas City 0Vsrswspt by a Ter
rife Gale.
Housss LsVslIed and Dozens Of
Dead and Wounded Left.
A School House Crowded With
Children Blown Down.
The Most Pitiful Scenes Imaginable
Enacted.
rbs Court House Demolished
Ean4orlas Mraekad
Tbs Court House Demolished
Factories Wrecked.

E,ysIs CRY, No, May IA fearful
s.o,m Of wind and rain swept over this
ci,v TODAY continuing from IL o'clock IN
ii noon. The Court House, on Second
,,-saf WAS totally demolished above the
second story. A number Of parsons were
b,rt there but noae killed ss far as known
St this time.
The L,,hrop so5o1l buiidiug, on Eighth
street, was totally wrecked and many chill
Srsn caught ic ,he ruins. Seven are said
70 have been allied, and the iuIl extent of
,bs disas,e. il net yet sno|n
Al ovs,-,li factory on Second street was
blown G5wa AMI i've deaths reported from
.bsre out OF fifteen girls working 10 the
builiiag. vale nearly all others are
wounded.
A. one o'clock a report from the
L,,hro9 school makes ten badly hurt be-
,idss those killed. fac old water works
building near ,ae Coa:g House, Was blown
down aud oas or two persons there are
missing.
A, the Western Uaioa telegraph oaies
.1r one wire is working OuS Of ths city.
Communication has been established With
;, Louis over that wire, By way of Dallas,
Galveston, and Memphis. One span al
the north eud OF the railroad bridge across
the M.solri river. WAS blown into the
river. booking the Hannibal and st. JOS
eo5s Rock I.lsad, Wabash and Kansas
Civ s.. Joe aad Council Bluffs roads
Elght girls have been taken out Of the river,
q, the factory four OF whom are dead
MANY others are in the ruiGs but there 10
scarcely hope for their lives In the
c3,flsior /. ia inDosHols to a7certsin def
g,,-.. .l, - -s, ,l ihe calamity, but it Is
.,ii taa. ov.r tsrn:y employees are impris'
o1sd in the basement Of the factory. The
d.,,s.cJ.s f,ry Of the storm was confined
10 the north end Of ;he citS except in the
Distraction Of toe I.athr1P public school
building, on Eighth street, aud buildings
generally excepting those menUoGed !
vlhs,ood the force of the storm
The maiu Olcs Of The .
Western Union Telegraph building is in
this portion Of the CITY, aud the poles are
heavily with wires which were broken Oh,
ls,rlng them down 10 "a tangled heap. Many
wires were carried down with the broken
bridges.
TWENTY DEAD.
At D. N. IS nearly as could be learned .
amid the intense excitement aud confusion
shout twenty persons sro kuoSn to De
dead The foiloFiUg list ia ~ nearly &C.
curs,e az can bs riven a; o'clock. The /
telephone wires are all dom. aud this ln- .
cyesses greatly the jlfi,ullY in getting early .
4 and reliable Information
Among those reported killed there may /
4 Je one or two not dead.
At Lsthrop school, killed:
4 NELLIE ELLIS, MAY BISgOP,
j JOIg MARTIN. Ald h,rE SMITH,
little brother. RUTH JAMESON,
i B,,s,E IvSEAI, Matte MOORE,
4 EpIrg PArcH RuBERT SrRAGUE,
L. I. MOORE, ia
Among
THE INJURED
ara:
MAY HooygR. badly hurt
4 Child named TsRAY
EDNA Evans.
Eva HALLETr
NETCIE CURRY.
MAUD As1EW.
At the WalerRorks building, two-s,ory |
brick, used as the United States engineers
O8cs, D 4. WELDON was injured about the !
head and bress, quite seriously
MAJOR LIyERNORE was hurt about the
head.
Attbs Smith { MofAtl spice mills, sd-
6oiniug FRANK SMITH was killed, and sew
era others bruised
At the Court House on Second sad
Msin streeA. Deputy Sheriff Henry
4D0~1uERTY is still missing
Ms NooaE, Of Independence, is dsngel-
ously hurt.
En-. HEDGEs baak broken.
Will HEDGES. leg broken.
"A JOS CLASS, oatlT hurt
The prisoners N jlil iu the basement OF
tae building we're scared, but unhurt They
remained IN the building. which - intact
trom the second story down, the third story
snd mansard having been demolished.
At the overall factory ll0 West Third
street,
rur aU.pru
IS still in progress and several persons are
saIl missing.
The fOIlosiDg are knoSn TO have been
killed
JENNIE FITZGERALD,
WILLIE EcENAN and a woman unidenti-
6ed
May and MAGGIE BIRD.
Several others are in . dAngeious con-
Gil:ou
JCu,S aud JOSEPH HoAR, proprietors,
are badly bruised
The ov-rsil factory occupied the third
0o9r. Ine Graham paper works, the hCst
and second aOor5 Their employees escaped
0nhurt.
A HORRIBLE TIAE.
Als Latnrop school building Wss sur
mounted By tower which for some time
nAd been considered unsafe. IL had been
VICE condemned. This morning tbs
Oal1lng was crowded with children, many
whom went nearly frantic
sEn grief over the appalling darknss:
Saieh preceded the tempest. The wind
sH7pi nsdly scross Broadway from th'
es' and seemed to cona sntrste its forct
Descent upon the tower, which yielded
n q crash, and carrying down th'
HsAvy bell plunged through the inter
sang doors to the basement
tns nam building Is mass Of ruins With
= me shattered walls. One wing was com