The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-05-21

eleven O'Clock yesterday morning = VT
riblc wind and rain-storm struck Kansas
city and caused great loss OF ltie ana
The following Is the latest re-
port received here: l.
The spacc betwccn the clouds and the
earth presented m almost perfectly
white appearance. made BY rain and
blown In every imaginable direction oy
The Wind a the torn advanced.
swept every small object away from ~
path. These niled the air and fell 70 the
ground. only 70 be lifted up again and be
carried 10 sim greater distances.
Many people in the city, not aware Of
the seriousness Of the storm, were
caught in II and lifted bodily from their
feet. Many were hurled fifteen or twenty
feet away, receiving terrible bruises.
In the suburbs Of the city a large num-
her OF frame houses were blown down,
and the inmates barely escaped with their
lives.
The scene around the Second Street
Court-housc Is one terrible 70 describe.
The full force Of the wind fell upon y
with terrific effect. Among those injured
NJ the Court-house were:
Ell Hedges: back broken.
Will Hedges; leg broken.
los. Walden: dug out from under the
debris in front Of the Courthouse, bruised
and bleeding.
- S~teinburg, a young man living az
7le Main street; badly injured about Inc
body.
Henry Dcugherty, deputy sheriff;
missing.
Jas. Chase, clerk In Stover's court;
| hurt about the head.
Todd Hiles jumped from sccond-story
window and escaped.
The c,erks In the recorders office
Jumped through the windows, and the
books were not put In the safe, but were
not injured.
Oprosite the courthouse, the old Sam
"a Fe Company's building and the smith
& Moffatt spice mills were totally demoi.
ished. A large number were rescued
from this building. Several girls were
4 i;,tle nov Nv the name Of Ed Mullen,
WAS picked up with his back very badly
Injured. Mr.. smith. one Of the proprie-
tors is now reported dead.
None OF the ~prisonersin the courthouse
were injured.
AZ twelve O'Clock during the heaviest
part OF the great storm. the factory OF
rhos. Hev. ITO West Third street was
completely DESTROYED. 1t was soon dis
covered that twenty-five employees, male
and female. were missing, and search WAS
immediately begun. BY one o'clock I'VE
dead bodies and fifteen dying and wound
Cd people had been removed from the
ruins. leaving five still missing.
The Kansas City overall factory aisn
fell. burying the following persons In the
ruins;
|, Jennie Phipps, West Bottoms
Minna Crane. Grand avenue.
Willie. a German boy, engineer, wne
lived In the bottoms.
Resides these. there are two Others
! dead. There seems to be trouble apou
the identification Of the bodies taken iron
e the ruins -
Kate Moran. q girl, who worked In IL
y building, Is missing.
! winlnc hands are still digging at N
4. ruins. and the wounded are either nein
y removed 10 their homes or to a hser
Is stable close by. y,
n The Lathrop School was entirety os
e stroyed, burying in the debris many {
the children within its walls Followin
are the names Of those dead ana injured
n Margaret Hou~cr. daughter o. "
r. proprietor Of Tiyoli Hall, aged clever
injured about the head and i~nternaiiy' rs
g fatally.
ae Nav Bishop. aged fourteen. s0S We
,g Twelfth street; taken out dead
Nelli. Ellis. residence unknown, age
n twelve: taken out dead.
Katie Smith, l0l Broadway; aged y
80 ,een. cut and bruised. not fatally.
Eva Hartzelle, 735 Washington stree
~ aged thirteen: hurt about head
Rnth Jameson, 9l6 Washington stree
% taken out dead.
Beatrice Ferry, Ninth and Jenerse
streets. limb broken.
sn Nellie Carey. living next 70 the schoo
IT. head. face and wrist, not badly hurt.
- frankie Matierson, Eleventh and Pen
IN extent Of injuries unknown.
ny Jimmie Bailey, West Seventh; VT
=. hurt. -
~ dead
air 4 prcscnt ffty-six have been taken q
OF the ruins above MENTIONED, y seNs
~ teen Of them are dead.
y. BESSIE Incho, taken out dead.
Robert Sprngue, son 81 Mr.. Sprag'
Of Fort Scott, taken out dead.
Niertie Moore. OF Gardener, IA
.lcven years old, dead.
N Robert Sprarue. taken out dead
Alice Frock, missing.
T.. II. Moore. Jr., SON OF 4. A. MOO
red OF BulIenc, Moore & Company taken
go, dead.
SEN a little girl. taken out dead, has
Try. vet been identified. ..,
/ IN All imprisoned were removed and tai
ing 10 their homes in carriages or ATTENDED
und al DR.. Kellogg'- natatorium.
nor M sooner had the rain ceased and
.rd storm blown over than the streets beca
~. crowded with curious sight-sesrs. Erie
81 the Injured and dead arrived Al the
"a. fcrcnt scenes Of death. A gcnilcm
whose name could not be learned.
e. dcavoring 10 cmovc his little boy u
the ruins, was struck by a falling piec'
the the timber, and, II Is thought, lat
tian injured. AT the same time that ne
"A to removed from the ruins his little BOY
for taken out dead. The shock. combi
4 : with the blow, will probably Kill him.
One span Of the Hannibal 4 -.
con. bridge over the Missouri river
M. washed away. and all traffic over
49, same Il now transferred via The MISS.
Pacific through L~eaycnworth Inc 9
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