Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. DEATH IN TIE WINDS. A Fearful Cyclone in the
 West.
 MANY VICTIMS IN ITS PATH. Great Loss of Life and
 Property. PROGRESS OF LABOR'S STRIFE. l An Electric Railroad
 Under Broadway. 
PROGRESS OF lABOR'S STRIFE.
A DEATH DEALING CYCLONE

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 A DEATH DEALING CYCLONE. Kansas City Swept by Furious Winds Many Buildings Laid Low and the Inmates Buried in the Ruins IA Great Number of Persons Taken Out Dead-The Loss of Property EnOr- nous. g.
 | CHICAGO, May Telegraph communica- ! tion between Kansas City snd all outside | points was cut off this afternoon by a cy- clone. No word can be gotten from that city. Western Union operators last on those | wires say one span of the bridge was blown | down and that twenty-five people were re- ported killed. Operators on the Postal com pany's wire say that the number reported killed Is not less than ohe hundred. The bridge was draw, built, on granite piers. The draw is right over the channel of the river. Colonel R. c. Clowry, general super intendent of the Western Union Telegraph cotnpany, received dispatch from Kansas City this afternoon saying that the cyclone had struck the bridge and blown down one span and wrought terrible destruction to life and property. It was reported that about forty persons were killed and large number injured. The telegraph wires on the bridge are down and the formed through connections with Galveston and New Orleans to St. Louis. Another dis patch says the Lathrop school, an overalls factory and the old works are blown down. In the school house several children were killed The court house was also damaged. The Chicago 6 Alton companys wires are all down west of Slater, which is one hundred and fifty miles, east of Kansas City. The United Lines wires are down west of Big Springs. The Kansas City bridge was the first bridge built across the river and was l. 050 feet long. It had two spans, one of five hundred feet and another five hundred and fifty. This bridge was crossed by the Chicago & Alton, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Hannibal & St. Joseph and Missouri Pacific. It was known as the great union bridge and was built in 1870. The To- cality is historic one for cyclones. There is a clear sweep for the wind from Wyandotte down the river over low river bottoms. A cyclone struck Wyandotte three years ago and caused great damage.
 KANSAS CITY, May 11.-A fearful storm of wind and rain swept over the city, continu- ing from eleven o'clock until noon. The 
 molished above the second story. A num- Der of persons were hurt there, but none killed as far as known at this time The La- throp school on Eighth street was partially wrecked and many children caught in the ruins Seven are said to have been killed and the full extent of the disaster is not yet known. There is scarcely hope for the lives of the balance. The span of the bridge next to Harlem was blown down and it is re- ported forty persons were killed at the bridge. One span at the north of the bridge across the Missouri river was blown into the river, blocking the Rock Island, Hannibal & St. Joseph and Wabash roads.
 LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, May 11.--At Il o'clock this forenoon this city was visited by fierce tornado that did an immense amount of damage to property, although but one life is reported lost in this city. The storm commenced with heavy rain and high wind which increased ill violence until it resem- bled hurricane. It only damaged three large buildings. The first it struck was the Morse schoofMin which there were superin- tendent, twelve teachers and six hundred scholars. Half of the roof was blown of and not single person was hurt. The sec ond building that was struck was the new market house. The gale struck the north end of this building, tearing about forty feet of the roof loose and scattering 1t in ev- cry direction, killing three horses and dan gerously wounding one man. Two railroad
 
 the Kansas Central and one at Fairmount on the Union Pacific. Eight barns were blown down in Salt Creek valley.
 EVANSVILLE, Ind, May 11.-At 6:45 this morning terrific wind and rain storm struck this city, tearing trees up by their roots and yet been reported. The estimated loss to property is $500, ,000.
 LEAvENwoREH, May 11.-Shortly after il o'clock this morning 8 terrible wind and rain storm struck Kansas City and caused great loss of life and property. Up to this I: hour the following is the last report received here: The Lathrop school situated at the corner of Eighth and --Aldy streets was 8 scene of terrible disaster, the building fall ing to the ground and entombing hundred helpless children. The grain and paper l house at 1O1 West Third street was also blown down and great loss of life resulted.
 The space between the clouds and earth presented an almost perfectly white appearance as if caused by the rain being blown in every direction by the wind. AS the storm ad- vanced it swept every small object from it's path, These filled the air and fell to the | ground only to be lifted again and to be car | ried to greater distance. Many people in the city not aware of the seriousness of the storm were caught in it and lifted bodily. | Many were hurled fifteen or twenty feet away receiving terrible bruises. In the suburbs of the city large number of frame houses were blown down and the inmates | barely escaped with their lives. The scene | around the Second street, court house is a terrible one. The full force of the winds | fell upon the building with terrific effect | Among those injured at 'ssthe court house | were; Ed Hedges, back broken; Will Hedges, leg broken; Joseph Waldon, dug out from under the debris in front of the court house bruised and bleeding; - Stein l burg, a young abstract man living at 7l9 Main street., badly injured about the body; Henry Dougherty, deputy sheriff, missing; James Chase, clerk in Stowers court, hurt
 about the head; Todd Haines, jumped from | the second story window and escaped injury. | The clerks in the second office jumped | throueh the window. The books were not put in the safe, but are not injured. Opposite l the court house the old Santa Fe company s
 bui ding and the Smith & Moffatt spice mills
 were demolished A large number were
 rescued from the latter Several girls l were pulled out in a semi conscious state A
 boy named Ed. Mullen was picked up with
 his back badly injured. MT. Smith, one of
 the proprietors, is reported de d. None ol jured. At 12 o'clock, during the heaviest
 part of the storm, the factory of
 Thomas Herr was completely razed to
 the ground. It was soon found that
 twenty five mployes, male and female, were
 missing and search was begun. By o'clock l uFe DOOleS aLu HIGoeu oyinB PoCPlo1 "
 moved from the ruins, leaving five persons
 missing. The Kansas City overall factory
 also fell, burying the following in the ruins
 Jennie Phipps of West Bottoms; Nina
 Crane, Grand avenuei Willie, Ger
 man boy, who lived in the bottoms
 Besides there are two others dead } There seems to be trouble about th'
 identification of the bodies taken from thu ruins Kate Moran is missing. Willing
 hands are still working at the ruins and th'
 wounded are being either removed to tnef
 homes or to the livery stable close by.
 The Lathrop school was entirely destroyed
 burying many of the children. Following are the names of the dead and injured:
 Margaret House. daughter of the proprietor o
 the Tvoli hall aged eleven, injured internally no
 fatally; May Bishop, aged fourteen taken out 1eaq
 Nellie Ellis, aged twelve, taken out oead; hHtl u
 Smith, aged fifteen, cut and bruised, noI IaIally
 Eva Hartzell, hurt about the head huth aIn,gs1t
 taken out dead; Beatrice Terry. limb proksn' NeiI.
 Carey, head, face and wrist, not eaoiy @ n.re Frankie Matterson extent of injuries unRnoWn % WI
 James McBeatty, wrist hurt little boy wa wa
 brought in dead. No one knows ms nains ai
 At present ffty-six persons have been 'ake | out of the ruins and seventeen or them .aI
 dead. Bessie = Incho, ten years od VII
 lives at the of Tenth and Centrale was IaKs ] ont dead Robert Sprague was taken out deaa
 MeTtie Moore, aged eleven, dead: Robert Sprague l taken < out dead; Alice EFeck. missing