Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-12
BEYOND TIE ROCKIES.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRp-uNros.f-
DOMESTIC NEWS.
cyclone in Missouri.

OOMESIlO NEWS.
Terrible Cyclone in Missouri.
KANSAS Cry mo- May 11th.-A cyclone
visited here at noon to-day. The Court
house was demolished and numbers of per-
sons were hurt there. The Lathrop school
was wrecked and many children caught in
the ruins. Seven are said to have been
killed An overall factory was blown
down. and five deaths reported and fifteen
girls reported badly injured.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
KANSAS CRY. May 11th.-A fearful storm
of wind and rain swept over the city to-
dav, continuing from IL O'Clock until noon.
The Courthouse on Second street was
totally DESTROYED above the second story.
A number of persons were hurt there, but
none killed, as far as known at this time.
a 1-oclock report from the Lathrop school
makes ten badly hurt, besides those killed.
The old water works building, near the
Courthouse, was blown down, and one or
two persons are missing. AT the Western
Union Telegraph Office but one wire is
working out of the city. Communication
has been established with St. Louis over
that wire by way of Dallas, Galveston, New
Orleans and Memphis. The span of the
bridge next TO Harlem was blown over,
killed at the bridge.
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
KANSAS CITY, May 1lth-At p. NJ, as
nearly as can be learned amid the intense
excitement and confusion, about twenty
persons are known to be killed Frank
Smith, of Smith & Moffatt, owners OF the
spice mills situated in the old water works
building, Second and Main streets, was
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buried in the ruins of the Courthouse. and
at o'clock the searchers are reported to
have come-in sight of his body. A team
ster who took refuge in the Courthouse is
also missing.
AT the Laihrop school eleven children
are reported dead. OF the four build
ings wrecked, all were more or less I'M
sound. The school building has been twice
condemned, and the Courthouse by many
considered unsafe. No one was killed ex-
cept in these four houses.
TERRIFYING SCENE.
The storm, though entailing so heavy a
loss of life, was nothing of the nature of the
tornado that visited the CITY three years
ago. 1t was violent wind, accompanied
by flood of water and hail, which turned
many streets into rivers. Signs, shutters.
chimneys, etc, were blown down with the
gale, and a number of vehicles were over
turned in the streets. The black clouds
that rolled over the city created almost the
the darkness of night, and made the timid
ones crouch in terror in their cellars The
streets were entirely deserted, and in some
instances horses were seen wandering
about attached to vehicles and seeking
refuge from the pelting storm.
FACTORY EMPLOYEES KILLED.
KANSAS Cry May 11th.-One span at
the north end of the railroad bridge across
the Missouri river was blown into the
stream, blocking the Hannibal and st.
Joseph, Rock Island, Wabash and Kansas
City, st. Joe and Council Bluffs Railways.
Eight girls have been taken out of the
overall factory, four of whom were dead.
Many Others are in the ruins, but there is
scarcely a hope for their lives In the con-
fusion it is impossible to ascertain def
nltely the extent of the calamity, but it is
said that over twenty employees are impris-
oned in the basement of the factory. The
disastrous fury of the storm was confined
TO the north end of the city, except in the
destruction of the Lathrop public school
building on Eighth street, and the build
ings generally, excepting those mentioned
withstood the force of the Storm The
main office of the Western Union telegraph
building is in this portion of the city, and
the poles, heavily weighted with wires,
were broken off, letting the wires down in
a tangled heap. Many wires were also
carried down with the broken bridge.
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
KANSAS CITY, May 11th.-fhe following
list is as nearly accurate as can be given at
4 o'clock. The telephone wires are all
down, and this increases greatly the diff
Guilty in getting early and reliable informa-
ton. Among those reported killed, there
Lathrop school the killed are Nellie Ellis,
May Bishop, Josie Martin and her little
brother, Kate Smith, Ruth Jameson, Bessie
Insco, Matte Moore, Edith Patch. Robert
Sprague and l.. I. Moore, Jr Among the
injured are: May Hooker, badly hurt;
child named Terry, Edna EVANS, Eva Haz-
lett Nellie Curry, Maud Acker. At the
water works building, two-story brick
used as the United States Engineers office,
w. A, Weldron was injured about the
head and breast, quite serious; Major
Livermore, hurt about the head; Lieuten-
ant L. II. Young, knee broken and hurt
about the head; - Nelson. hurt about
the head. At Smith & Moffats spice mill,
adjoining, Frank Smith was killed, and
several others bruised. At the Court house
Henry Dougherty is still missing. He is
supposed to be in the ruins. Mr.. Moore,
of independence, was dangerously hurt
Ed. Hodges had his back broken Will
Hodges had leg broken. James Chase
was badly hurt. The prisoners in the Jail
in the basement of the building were
scared, but unhurt. They remained in the
building, which is intact on the outside
from the second story down, the third
story having been demolished. At the
overall factory. No. 10 West Third street,
the search is still in progress, and several
persons are still missing. The following
are known to have been killed Jennie
Fitzgerald. Willie Eckman and woman,
unidentified. May and Maggie Bierd will
die, and several others are in a dangerous
condition. Julian and Joseph Hoar the
proprietors, are badly bruised. The over
all factory occupied the third floor, and the
Graham Paper Company occupied the sec
ond floor. Its employees were unhurt.
AREA OF THE STORM ENLARGED.
LEAvENwoRTH (Kansas). May 11th.-At
II o'clock today fierce tornado struck
this city, and did an immense amount of
damage to property The Morse school
building, in which were the Superintend-
ent, twelve teachers and 600 scholars, was
the first large building struck. Half of the
roof was blown off, but not one person was
hurt. The gale then struck the north end
of the new marker house, tearing about
forty feet of the roof loose and scattering it
in every direction, killing three horses,
dangerously wounding one man, and dam
aging a stock of hardware to the extent of
about $4,000. Two railroad bridges were
washed away-one at Easton, on the Kan
sas Central, and one at Paramount, on the
Union Pacific. Eight barns were blown
down in Salt Creek valley eight miles
northwest of here.
CHURCH CRUSHED IN.
EVANSVILLE (Ind.) May 11th.-A very
severe storm, with violent wind, rain and
lightning, visited here this evening, doing
damage amounting to about 100000 The
African Baptist Church, a large brick
building. was crushed in, and several
persons preparing for festival narrowly
escaped with their lives.
The Labor Troubles.
Nov 11tb