The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-13
THE KANSAS CITY STORM.

Searching the Ruins-Three Men Still Miss
ing-Reports from Towns in the Vicinity.
KANSAS CITY, May 12.-The search in the
ruins of the buildings wrecked in yesterdays
storm continued until after midnight and was
resumed this morning. The bodies of the dead
children are all out of the Lathrop school build
ing, but three men are still missing, who
were supposed to have been in the overall factory
building Some Of the court officials are in fa-
vor of abandoning the present building and
erecting new courthouse on another Site The
records and papers, all Of which are saved, will
will be removed to some convenient building.
A report comes from vichy Springs, twelve
miles north of Rolla, that the greater part of
that town was destroyed by the storm of last
night. A majority of the residences and many
of the business blocks were unroofed, and al
most completely demolished but no lives were
lost and only four persons were injured, and
they not seriously.
A dispatch from Mineral Point, Mo-. says:
''This section was visited by a most terrific
hail-storm yesterday afternoon. There was no
serious damage done at this place, but it is
feared the country Immediately south Of here
suffered severely. Hail stones measuring sew
eral inches in circumference were picked up dur
ing the storm. colt belonging to Mr.. Frank
Harris was killed by being struck with one of
these masses of ice."
At about IL o'clock yesterday morning severe
cyclone struck the town of Nortonville. Kan.
doing an immense amount of damage The
Breck Block, which had just been completed by
Mccarthy & Layson, was completely wrecked.
The bank building adjoining this was demol-
ished; many dwelling houses were unroofed and
almost totally destroyed Reports from the sur
rounding counties state that the damage to prop
erty is very great, many farm houses, barns,
etc, having been blown down. No lives were
lost, but many were slightly and few seriously
injured
dispatch from Bonne Terre Mo-, says: 1.-The
heaviest rain and hailstorm that was, perhaps,
ever known here passed over this part of the
country last evening. The ha-stones fell in
great numbers and Of extraordinary size, many
being as large as goose eggs The iron roof OF
the boiler house of the ST. Joe works was liter
ally riddled as if by grape-shot. Great damage
was done in the breakage and beating down of
growing crops.
Greenridge, Mo-, suffered severely by yester-
days storm. Houses were removed from their
foundations out-buildings were destroyed,
fences were blown down, and great damage done
to fruit and shade trees. The glass in the win
dows of nearly every building in town, exposed
to the fury of the storm, were shattered by hail.
No lives were lost, and none of those who were
injured are in a dangerous condition.
The most violent storm that ever was wit
messed at Usage City struck that place about
o'clock yesterday afternoon, lasting about
q
poured in torrents so that within ten minutes
from the time it began the streets were so flooded
and covered with water that drift and wood
fioated over their surface. Fences were torn
down. trees were uprooted from the ground and
blown in every direction. The Usage river,
which was about on stand in the morning, i'm
mediately after the storm commenced to rise
again, and from $3.50 to 8 o'clock P. M. rose about
twenty six inches and is still rising Particulars
have been received that the river has flooded it's
han Dke two mil mi dam
age. The river was level with it's banks at Z p.
NJ, and this morning had overaowed driving
many from their homes on the river bottoms.
No loss of life has been reported, but the crops
in the surrounding country will prove a total
loss and majority of the fields will have to be
replanted.
About noon yesterday terrific tornado ac-
companied with rain, struck wentworth from
movable went in it's path The first object in
the city struck was the Morris public school,
four STORY and basement structure, on the north
ern limit of the city, where nine hundred chill
dren attend panic was raised among the
children, and before the teachers could realize
the danger about fifty rushed out into the storm.
The remainder were quieted. No damage was
done further than unroofng the building. At
Balm & Varney's warehouse, in the center of the
city, the roof was blown off into the street be-
low, killing three horses and fatally injuring the
driver. On the North Espanade, where the
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company is leveling
the bank, a horse was blown over hundred
feet down the bank into the river and killed
The damage to crops in the surrounding vicinity
is very heavy. whole fields of corn having been
washed from the ground
Shortly after noon, yesterday, Sedalia ex-
perienced the heaviest rain and hail-storm it has
known in years. 1t was accompanied by heavy
wind also, but the gale of short duration.
The galvanized iron cornice on the north side of
the dome of the new courthouse was blown off,
and landed on the roof but the building was not
otherwise damaged. In East Sedalia, the black
smith shop of W. J. Hendricks, a frame struct-
ure, was razed to the ground In various por-
tions of the city trees were snapped in twain
though mere pipestems, while signs and awnings
were hurled promiscuously about the streets.
Roadmaster Peter Rockwell received kilograms
informing him that bridges near Pleasant Hill
and Little Blue, on the main line of the Missouri
Pacific, had been seriously damaged by the
floods. In Sedaa the principal streets resem-
BILE rivers, the small sewers proving wholly
inadequate for the vast volume of water which
fell. No loss Of life has been reported in Seda-
liza or vicinity.