The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-28

passed through the latter place, scat
tering cars all over the tracks, killing
| thirty-five men in the wreck Of the
Vandalia freight house and wiping the
| round house of the Wabash road out of
existence. The operator at Decatur
has not been able to get any further in
formation.
Little Rock, Ark. May 27.-The tele-
| graph operator at Carondelet, four miles
south of St. Louis, says all street car
communication between St. Louis and
! that suburb is entirely cut off and the
| streets are almost impossible But lit
| tie is known there concerning the cy-
clone The railroad tracks between
| Carondelet Oak Hill and St. Louis are
| Blocked with debris and many trestles
| have been torn away and in many
! places the tracks have been twisted out
/ of line. The road bed was washed out
| in places and the track is under water.
From persons who have made their way
to Carondelet the operator learns tha.
the storm did the greatest damage in
| the west part of the city.
Little damage is said to have been
done north of Chouteau, in the north
ern part Of the city The Missouri Pa
| cific has suspended all trains between
DeSoto and st. Louis and will not start
anything in that direction until daylight
Several landslides are reported. South
bound passenger trains are being held
at ST. Louis and northbound passenger
trains at DeSoto for further develop
ments.
From reports received at Carondelet
the Missouri division will be open by
Thursday. Little or nothing definite
is known at Carondelet of the cyclone.
The storm is very heavy in Bismarck,
Mo. Rain is falling in torrents at Car
ondelet now.
Chicago, Ill, May FIT Is reported
that the limited train from Chicago to
st. Louis over the Alton road was blown
into the river with a section OF the
bridge and 200 lives lost.
l-ansas City, No, May 27.-The train
dispatcher at the headquarters Of the
Alton road here has a report from the
operator at Rood House that at Drake,
Ill. just south of Rood House on the
Alton, a tornado at late hour this
afternoon demolished big school house
and that eighty children persisted in the
ruins. No confirmation of the report
can be obtained.
At the Alton headquarters the reports
that Mexico and Rush Hill, Mo-, were
swept away by the storm are discredit-
ed. The railroad wires through these
places are working and no reports OF
serious damage have been sent in
Memphis, Tenn, May 27.-Word has
reached here by way of Carondelet, Mo.
that sixty dead bodies have been taken
from the st. Louis City hospital, which
was completely wrecked, and every pa
tient has probably been killed. The
buildings Of the Refrigerator and Wood
cutter company were demolished and
caught fire and are burning. The loss
of life In these buildings is believed to
be very heavy. The United elevator
was blown down,
Twenty dead bodies and many wound |
ed have been recovered from this build |
ing.
The scene in the river was appalling !
Steamboats, moored at their landings |
were torn away. turned over and sunk. |
drowning all on board. Many people |
were seen clinging to floating wreck |
age and piteously appealing for help.
ELSEWHERE IN MISSOURI.
Kansas City, May ga cyclone is re-
ported to have struck Moberly, Mo-, sit |
uated in Randolph county, in the CEN
ter Of the state. late this afternoon. The
extent of the damage is unknown. |
Wires east of here went down shortly |
after the storm struck
Hamilton, Mo, May PA great hail |
storm visited Polo, in the south part Of |
this county, last night. Hail stones.
some weighing one and one-half pounds I
fell, breaking nearly ell the windows in
town and puncturing tin roofs as
though they Were paper. Fruit and veg
etables suffered greatly, but no loss of
life is reported.
Kansas City, May 27.--Weather OBJ
server Corners prediction, issued to-
day, was severe thunder storms. accom-
panied by southerly squalls for this af-
ternoon and in eastern Kansas and
western Missouri. The signal service
office definition Of squall is a wind of
varying velocity, at times reaching a
nlgh rate In an instant and dying out
with equal suddenness.
Kansas City, May 27.-Ten people are
sald TO have been killed in a tornado
which struck the village of Iabaddia
tranklfn county, this evening and that
he town OF Renick, ten miles from No
oeriy in Randolph county, was COM
oleoely wiped out. Nothing definite from
either place
Sturgeon, No. May PA cyclone
passed three miles north of Sturgeon at
O'Clock this afternoon. At Renick
hree men were seriously injured and a
amIly OF colored people carried over a
nile, two children being badly hurt.
friendship church, north of town. was
Baldwin, No, May PA hurricane
accompanied by terrific hail and rain
storm, passed over ST. Louis county
bout 4:S0 this afternoon. For three
hours rain fell in torrents. and hail feu
o a depth of several inches. Great
lamage was done TO crops throughout
ne county. Several buildings were
Down down. but so far as can be learn
d no one was seriously injured.
Kansas City, May PA special from
deAico' Mo, reports that a cyclone
Wept across Audrian county this even
hg' DONG great damage 10 crops and
many buildings. The corres-
'ondent reports that seven people have
zen killed in the county and probably
twenty-five badly injured, but is unable
o give any details.
Kansas City, No, May IA spsciai
rom Mexico, No. saws.
AOdIlan county was visited by a ter
ific tornado this afternoon az $50. The
oJal number Of killed at Bean creek
ND Rush Hill is about eight. More
han twenty-five were injured. Houses.
barns and school houses were
azed 10 the ground. The storm was
preceded and followed by terrible rain
nd hail storms, which did incalcula-
lie damage.
In the Bean creek district, a school 7
-ouse was carried completely away ana
daughter OF joseph G. Ware. one of
ne pupils was killed and Lulu Fubauks
nd Hiida Blaze, also school chsIdrs, :
we're fatally injured. They can live
MY a short time Others along the :
QUITE OF the tornado in this district and Z
'hose names cannot yet be learned. are