Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-05-15

WORK OF THE wINDcoNf.
Awful Disaster at Kansas City
The Dead.
KANSAS CITY, May 11.-At half.past
10 o'clock this morning storm clouds
began gathering over the city. They FIRST
appeared in the northeast and sureine
westerly across the city turned suddenly
about in their course and descending
rapidly broke upon the city in terrific
bursts Of wind and rain that swept NIL
lighter objects before them. The dark.
ness was almost like night and people
tied to the nearest shelter and awaited
with blanched faces the fury Of the tenn.
pest. The clouds seemed 10 Craze the
roofs ofthe highest buildings and poured
out torrents Of apparent solid masses for
time. The storm struck the city in
full force about twenty minutes past
eleven and ragged for half an hour. The
streets became running rivers Of water,
carrying boxes and signs and other sim.
liar freight. The Lathrop school build
ing occupied prominent site at the cor
ner Of Eighth and Main streets. It con.
sisted Of the main building to which an
"rt wing had been added. The building
was surmounted by.a tower which for
sometime had been considered unsafe,
1t had been twice condemned. This
morning the building was crowded with
children, many Of whom became nearly
frantic over the appalling darkness and
stiffness which proceeded the tempest.
When the wind struck the tower it yield
ell with crash and carrying down the
heavy bell, plunged through the inter-
vening floors to the basement. The
main building is mass of ruins in the
shattered walls which still stand. The
wing was comparatively uninjured and
the scholars there were unhurt. In the
main building, however, the falling floors
precipltated the terrified children to the
basement, where the masses of bricks
and beams crushed them to the ground
and buried them. The gale quickly sub
sided and the work of recovery was un.
dertaken by eager hands. The fire de-
partment and police soon arrived and
organized. Search was commenced.
The dead and wounded were taken out
and carried to the natatorium adjoining,
which was turned into hospital. Here
parents ana friends OF the little ones
gathered, each uttering hcart-rending
cries as they recognized i'll the manned
ana bleeding forms those whom they
loved. Among the first taken out sew
cral were dead, and one or two disfig.
ured almost beyond recognition, their
clothing torn and their bodies covered
with dust and mortar. Some Of the
wounded children seemed to have great
or control than their elders. One little
g'rl half buried in the debris over which
the lescrers were busy, begged them to
leave her and help boy beside her, be-
cause shc SAD he was only five years old Z.
The scenes in the natatorium as little
ones were brought in and laid upon the
'mproVlsed cots, the dead placed to-
gether upon one SIDE, were pititul be-
Vohd expression: a dozen dead were
taken out durlng the DAY and their bodies
scht 10 the houses OF the sorrowlng fam
.llcs. oe'erai OF me children belonged
10 prominent families.
~ NO ny !" est !hlrd street stood \
lnrec story brick building III the middle
OF tnc DOCK, the third floor OF which WAS
!lseu rs IN overall factory conducted by
I1oal hros. the nrst ana second floors
ny the 'ranam faper 20. In the fac
toiy were ABOUT twenty-five employees,
C"'ehy glris' Wheh inc storm broke
thGy started ior the ceiiar. The building
'c'l WIN Crash. Delng razed to the
earth anu most OF the frightened girls
were caught III the RUNS: Four have
been taken out dead. A number Of
olners are wounded and some are still
missing miss. torce OF laDorers Is busy to:
nl9it III upturn'hg the CONFUSED mass OF
prick ana t'mbcrs. Inc county court
mousse p was aiso wrecked, and Deputy
Hl'erln Dongherty was caught and Killed.
me oid building on Second and Main.
occupied ny the United states cngineers,
was also wrecked, falling On smith 4
Moiiatt $ spice mn. smith was killed
anu Mo'iatl ana three employees badly
injured. Inc second span was blown
rom inc hortn end OF the bridge ACROSS
the missouri! rlvcr.,
| me killed number twenty-eight, and
the list oi the wounded Is much larger.
IN ILLINOIS.
| CHICAGO, May Ia most destruc.
i've cyclone is reported from Odell. forty
miles south OF Joliet, on the Chicago h
Alton, tins afternoon about 4 o'clock.
The delegates to the state Sabbath
school returning on the train arriving
here at ,. M. state that as the train
nearcd ')dell they saw the cyclone ap.
proach'ng. Fist they saw the roof OF
the elevator rise and sail oil in the air.
and then the building collapsed. Then
| the hotel and hnllSna raisoI onI tam