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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-28

Compress building. both one-story
buildings were demolished. John O'Con-
nor 21O9 Adams street and Gertie Nc
Kenna, IL years old, 2103 Eugenia
street, received internal injuries.
Bridget Gum. 2722 Sheridan avenue,
was seriously injured.
Strickler's cigar store. Broadway and
BfddeU street, lost so foot front. Mrs.
Strfckler was sitting in the front door
way at the time with her baby in her
arms. but was unhurt.
Frank L. COnstantine's cOllar-bone
was broken by the falling Of a tele-
phone pole on Chestnut street. He was
taken in at 1916 Chestnut street.
The storm tore off half Of the roof Of
the National Paper company's build
ing, South Eighth street and demolish-
ed the shipping room on the first floor
Total damage was about $40, 600.
Thomas Fry, a drummer for the c.
II. LOuhmann Lumber company, was
seriously injured in the groin by the
falling walls of the cCmpany's office
building at Main and Carroll streets
Mail Carrier John w. Mccain and
three other men sought shelter from
the storm near a brick wall at the COR
ner of Levee and Carr The wall fell
on them and all were painfully injured
The roof of Sumner school for ne
grOes, situated on Eleventh, between
Spruce and Poplar streets, was blown
in As far as known there were no Oc-
cupants in the building at the time
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- "a 1NJUREp.
Corrected List Up to Latest Hour
Carefully Revised

Carefully Revised
St. Louis. May 2s.-The following is
the list of the injured:
Katie Filsinger. a broken leg
Abbie Aurke, st. Louis
julius Skaffor, injured internally; not
expected to live In serious condi-
ton.
Harry Smith. Nokomis. Ill. badly in
Six unknoWn men found in front Of
the Union depot power house; badly
lacerated.
Charles Street Newport, Ark. head
and arm cut; in a serious condition
Louise Miller, Burnevilles Jefferson
county Mo. badly hurt.
Peter Han, seriously injured.
Maud H. Tinker, Danville, Wis, ser
iOusly cut on head and body, believed
to be fatal
]. W. Tinker. NJ I Tinker, J. L. Tin
ker, all Of Waterloo. Ill, more or less
injured; wounds of NJ. I. Tinker are ser
iOus.
Patrick Mcmahon. serious bruises on
Ben Brennan. badly hurt.
John Balkins, badly hurt, uncon-
sciOus.
]. L. Holzamp. confusion about face
and head, serious
James Conway. badly injured about
body and shoulders.
Pedro OsConnOr aged IL 23O6 Bran
non avenue, run over by coal train
driven by wind. leg crushed.
Following are Iaborers working on
y
Meyers cigarette factory, who were in
Jured:
Patrick Tracey, As. right hand torn
James Lahey. aged So. hurt internal
ly.
John Toomey. SO. internally injured.
Joseph Boyd, So. leg broken, spine
hurt.
Mike Lloyd. 4s. internally injured.
Patrick Reug, 48, internally injured.
James Lenahan, IS. internally in
jured.
Michael ATu1roon. internally injured
James Leinthus, %, eyes put out and
scalp wound
Thomas Griffith. o. hip injured.
David Lewis. IS, head and body cut.
Caroline ROLAND, Internally.
Albert Platz, leg and ankle broken.
At City hospital;
Harry Ottesson, badly cut and bruis-
Laurence Childress. badly cut and
bruised.
Mary Finan. badly cut and bruised.
Sixty paupers at hospital, more or
less injured
Miss May Walter, gashed on head and
arms; not serious.
Miss Josie Walter, bruised on shout
der and head.
John Bulzins
Frank Benson.
HOlkamD.
James Conway.
Infant of Mrs. Hamilton. will die
Daniel Heitner, serious.
Mrs Daniel Heitner, severe injuries.
Mrs Castle serious
Custave Leitner.
Chris Smith
VIM. Swanett, engineer Midland Ter
mlnal railroad, badly hurt
Fireman M'Gentiss, same, hurt about
head and shoulders.
Henry Althaus, employe ST. Louis
wire mill, crushed; viii die
- Tootsey. same, internal injuries.
- o. Brien, both arms broken.
Theo Kiss, aged 8. skull fractured
and other wise injured.
T. A Benson, skull fractured
George Boetz, head hurt and badly
bruised.
George PEPPER, internally injured
Katie Bennett, both arms broken and
one ear torn off
Edwin Hyke, at sos Olive. badly cut
by falling glass.
Rooklzseper for Joe Odge. La Sale
and Jefferson avenue.
Engineer for Hart & Back
Joe Davis received scalp wounds at
a falling building at Second and vaIen-
tine.
Mike Dowd. internally injured.
Katie Filsinger broken leg
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WHAT CAUSED THE STORM.
Scientific Explanation BY the st.
Louis Local Weather officer

Scientific Explanation By the st.
Louis Local Weather Officer
St. Louis, May 2s.-H. W. Franken-
field. local weather ofncer was a busy
man during and after the storm In
an interview with the reporter of the
Associated Press he said: For the
past week the weather in the vicinity
of St. Louis has been characterized by
low pressure. high temperatures. ex-
cessive humidity and prevailing south
erly winds.
The pressure has also been low
throughout the west. AT the same time
it is relatively high in the south caus-
ing the warm southerly winds laden
with moisture to blow from the Gulf
of Mexico This moisture has been
phere and the humidity consequently
increased from day to day
The mean temperature averaged
from three to thirteen degrees above
the normal each day. while the humid
ity ranged from seven to twenty per
cent more than the mean for this sea
son of the year
ON Wednesday morning the weather
map showed the low pressure still
everything the west with the center of
depression extending in an irregular
oval from the Texas Panhandle through
west Kansas and Nebraska Through
out the state of Missouri high tempera-
ture and humidity prevailed, with
south winds The dav would Dopu-
Although reports are missing, owing
TO the widespread destruction, it is evil
dent the storm area moved slowly
east during the day. The barometer
commenced to fall at noon and at
o'clock it had fallen thirteenth of
an inch. About this time the sky be-
came overcast with dark, thickly cum
ulated Stratas which by O'Clock form
ed mass OF stratus clouds which COM
menced to assume light green color in
the northeast. This green color slow
" advanced from the northeast. spread
more to the west and north and at the
same time the temperature commenced
to fall The normal cyclOnlc oircula-
ton thus brought winds Of different
tempera lures and humidities into an
upper position, with the result that a
decided instability was produced in the
atmosphere and a violent secondary
storm center was created
The barometer continued to fall rapid
~, and by p m it had fallen . de
srees since noon The wind was becOm-
ing variable with q tendency toward a
mOrtherly direction until lightning and
thunder had commenced at A.30 %. m.
AT 5:04 p. m. the storm broke forth the
wind changed suddenly to the north
west with rapidly increasing velocity.
and the rain fell in torrents The green
cloud still remained in the west and
north. but the storm moved toward the
southeast with large angry detached
masses Of cumulus clouds crossing each
from the north. having the greatest We
locity in the history Of St Louis About
5 D. m. the wind had reached about 81
miles and later on 1T changed in its
direction to the southeast From 5:O4 p.
m to 500 p M. l-33 inches or rain fell
When the rain ended at sos p m, Isl
inches had fallen in all The electrical
storm was OF unusual volume me sky
was almost one continuous blaze of
light, and the clouds extended far into
the south"
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VETERANS ARE ROBBED.
One Robbed at the Soldiers Home of
His Watch and $50.

Leavenworth. May 2S.-SeveraI vet
Grams at the home who have received
their quarterly pension money this
week have been entrapped-
One veteran, whose name had not
been learned at noon, was robbed of $50
in money and his gold watch and chain
at the home last night.
The unfortunate veterans trousers
were taken from near his cot while he
slept When he saw them again they
were in an anteroom with the pockets
rified.
A big veteran known as Texas Jack"
was down town yesterday afternoon
feeling jubilant and spending money
freely. This morning he approached
Policeman Mace and said:
Il was robbed last night of my watch
and money L don't care for the money,
but would like to have your assistance
in recovering the watch I only visited
two or three places last night, and
must have got ny leg pulled at one of
them"
Being told by the veteran where he
had been last night, Policeman Mace
went to one of the places-a negro dive
and told one of the women that If she
did not give up Texas Jacks watch
she would have to go to jail. The wo-
man was guilty-her looks showed it
and she soon restored the watch. The
officer did not know she had it.
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FAIR WEATHER PROMISED.
The Cool Weather is the Result Of
the st. Louis Disturbance.

Instead of the predicted thunder
storm, Topeka and vicinity experienced
& side current from the st. Louis cy-
clone yesterday evening. For three
quarters of an hour the wind blew at
q rate of from IS to AZ miles an hour
This wind together with the sudden
drop in temperature, is explained by
Weather Observer Jennings to have
been caused by the Missouri cyclone
sweeping to the east and the high
barometer of the northwest dropping
into this territory
The chilly air continued through the
night and a portion of the morning
and kept the temperature i'm the neigh
borhood Of go above. Although the
sun is shining brightly this afternoon
the thermometer at o'clock registered
but 70 degrees. with a cool breeze blow
ing from the west. The weather bureau
today predicts fair weather tonight and
tomorrow
Only in the southern part Of the state
did the promised rain fall. on the
southern division of the Santa Ee and
on the southwestern division Of the
Rock Island showers fell last night At
Winfield heavy hail was experienced
Showers also fell from Chanute to Win
field last night and at Attica this morn
ing. The weather is today reported
clear in the eastern portion of the state
and part cloudy in the middle and
western portions The temperature
ranges from 65 to So.
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AT TIE UNION STATION.
Train Service Demoraized Trains
Come in over the Merchants
Bridge.

ST. Louis. May 2S.-The union station
was crowded last night by persons
awaiting the departure of trains on
which they intended to leave town.
The hurricane created havoc in rail-
road business. which was virtually de-
mOralized for q time.
Incoming and outgoing trains were
either detained from travel or stalled
for hours. Communication over rail-
road companies wires was suspended
In several directions.
The Vandalia train No. 21 due In St
Louis at { % m. arrived via the AIer-
chants bridge at about 1890 a. m
The Missouri Pacific through train NO.
q, due ait 10 o'clock p. M. arrived q t
g. M No Iron Mountain trains left
last night. The Iron Mountain through
train No 81 did not arrive. The Mis-
souri, Pacific trains No and 80 left
about - o'clock. also two suburban
trains Two *" line trains, is and z,
went out about midnight.
Missouri, Kansas g. Texas No g. due
60 leave at $3.50 p. mi. left about 1.15
"a. m No eastbound trains left dur
ing the night. They viii probably
start after daylight. One wire to Mo
herly, No. on the Wabash. was got
Into working order about I a. m
No disaster or serious accidents were
reported Up to 2.45 a. m upon any of
the lines running into the union depot
The round house of the union depot
was seriously damaged by the storm.
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CITIZENS MAD.
Only Extreme Disgust Felt at
Police Commissioners.
LeaYenwOrth Board Said to Be
Very Incompetent.
ARE WASTING MONEY.
Carry More Men Than the Law
Allows Them.
Show a Partially In Collecting
Saloon Fines.
ARE WASTING MONEY.

Leavenwortt, May 2s.-Open disgust
is expressed on all sides in Leaven-
worth with the present police commits
sioners and the way they manage po-
lice affairs.
To start with they are extraVagant,
and are carrying more men on the roll
than the law allows. They are wasting
money by paying salaries in excess or
that fixed by the statutes.
The board refuses to make a public
accounting monthly of its expenditures
or to show where the money coming IN
der their control goes to-
The board is severely condemned for
paying out S120 per month to two al
legged secret service men It is said that
these men are W. 3. Townsend and
Chas. Dill.
One Of the serious complaints against
the collection of monthly fines During
a recent primary contest the board al
lowed some joint keepers to so without
paying anything if they would aid the
board and help carry the election Since
then some of the Joint keepers have re
fused to pay anything, and the board
is powerless to move against them be-
cause the board put themselves in their
power by dishonesty at that time
In the annual report of Mayor Hook,
made recently, it was shown that the
money turned over to the city treas
than that of any board for five years.
Another serious complaint against
the board is in the fact that they are
allowing and licensing gambling places
in LeaVenWOrth. Poker rooms and
other forms of gambling are running
at half q dozen places in the city and
a monthly license is being collected
from the DrODTietOrS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-28
QUEER M'KINLEY MEETING.
A Philadelphia Merchant Addresses a
Crowd From a Box.

for Major Mckinley among Philadel-
phia business men led to an unprece-
denied mass meeting in Chestnut street
at noon. Michael J. Brown, a wool
merchant and secretary of the McKin-
ley league, was called upon for
speech when the big crowd gathered.
He mounted q box in his store window
and told the people why the wool mer-
chants and labOrers in wool want the
OhiOan for president.
He declared that any of Pennsyl-
vania's sixty-fOur delegates viii betray
their states interest if they fail to
support Mckinley. Fully fifty firms
of wooden merchants and hundreds Of
individuals were represented at the odd
nOIitical gathering.
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Isl o. ne DEAD

Corrected and Revised List of the
Dead Up to the Latest Hour.
st. Louis. May 2s.-Among the identi-
fed dead are
SOPHIE DEAGARTINA, killed by
falling building at Twelfth and Spruce
streets.
ROBERT WILSON. killed by falling
building at Liggett & Myers Tobacco
factory.
KATIE CLAYPOOL.
WALLACE BRADSHAW. coIored.
CHARLES LEE
JULIUS GAULT.
VIM. WHEELER BUSH, killed by
street car rolling on him.
MAX WEISS, driver Eberle Keyes
Livery company.
JOSEPHINE MARITIME.
JONES. engineer Aetna Iron
works.
FRANK FISHER
BOOKER EPSTEIN. f
bernstein.
FRED ZI1IAIERS chief engineer
union depot power house.
UNKNOWN CHILD about years
old. California and Anna avenues.
]. LEMKE, manager st. Louis Bar
Der Supply house.
UNKNOWN MAN at a. B. Jones'
Broom factory.
MR. and MRS. DAVID S. SAGE.
GEORGE WOODS, clerk in Vandalia
office.
HENRY sTRICKER. vandaHa rail-
way.
J. E. KEENE. vandalia railway.
DIX g. E- NEAIL4. dentist.
TWO CHILDREN of Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace Trump LitchhGlds III
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MINoR INcTpENTs.
Many Details Of the Destruction in
the City

Many Details Of the Destruction in
the City
st. Louis May 2s-Almost numberless
is the list Of casulties and destruction
Of property.
AT the Globe Shoe ana Clothing COM
pany the windows and upper floors
were blown in and damage was done to
merchandise amounting to thousands
sf dollars. The roofs and slzylights Of
he Merchants Exchange building were
blown off.
Thomas 1Eetealfs hip was broken.
He is a switchman in the employ OF
the Iron Mountain railroad at Barton
street. a switchman's shanty fen on
him.
The cigar store at the bridge entrance
u Third and Washington avenues was
blown into the street. Ne one was in
iured-
The Paper Cotton Compress COM
pany's building near the foot Of Con-
rent street and the st. Louis Cotton
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FIRE AND WIND TOGETHER.

Tornado Blows or Two Stories Of a
Factory Completes the Wreck.
St Louis, May 2s-The St. Louis Re
frigerator and Wooden Gutter COM
pany's entire plant at Main and Park
was destroyed. The plant consisted OF
a four-story factory, a. four-story ware
house. a bill factory and several small
buildings. When the cyclone struck
the plant there were at work between
400 and 500 men and women. The top
stories Of the warehouse and factory
were blown off. Fortunately there were
only a few people on the top floor and
all but two are thought to have es-
capped with slight injuries.
The panic-stricken people rushed pel
nell from the building. leaving many
disabled behind. To add to their hor-
ror hundreds of pieces OF heavy lumber
from adjoining lumber yards came fly
ing through the air and forced many
back into the blazing buildings.
Alarms were sent ia from all the fire
alarm boxes i'm the neighborhOOd, but
the wires were already useless Chief
6Wingley happened to be crossing the
Fourteenth street bridge and saw the
blaze. BE drove to the nearest en-
CINE house and piloted the apparatus
to the IRE.
BY the time that the engine arrived
the warehouse was mass Of flames
and the fire had already spread TO the
factory across the alley The ground
for blocks around was covered with
lumber and bricks an6 the fire plugs
near the business buildings were under
masses of debris Tt was some time
before water could be secured and
much difficulty was experienced in
dragging the hose to the building
The chief hurried off after more ap-
paratus and succeeded in getting sew
eral companies to the fire. 1T was seen
that the entire plant was doomed SO
don "a r# na
were directed toward preventing a
spread of the flames At 10 o'clock the
IRE was under control and at midnight
it was practically out. The loss is
5000 000
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THE MILWAUKEE STRIKE.
Topeka Resident Writes
About It.

To Editor Topeka State Journal
Milwaukee, Nay 28-I have Just read
an item in your paper where the com
mission merchants of Milwaukee have
declared against the boycott
They have done just as your item
states. But it does seem that the news
about the strike that is sent out is
only such as favors the street railway
company
We have one daily paper here that
conducts its paper on the same line
that you are running the Topeka State
Journal. inasmuch as it gives us facts
regardless of who it hits.
This is not only a strike by city
railway employees, but by the people
in general. There are about ffty-fve
street cars pass our place every hour
in the day, and we seldom see any one
on the cars But the omnibuses are
crowded full. Respectfully,
= r FISHER
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Kansans snowbauing in Alaska.

Abilene, May 2s.-A letter in an ex-
change, written at Coal Point, Cooks
Inlet. Alaska. contains some interest
ing facts concerning two Abilene men,
V. B Cosad and J. E. Gufbault, who
went with a party of sixty Californfans
in a steamer for the extreme north of
Alaska on a gold and coal prospecting
tour. They are enjoying snow storms
and ieebergs galore and having a good
time. Cosad is reported as leading
terrific snow ball battle and staying
With his forces to the end.
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KANgAg RoRgE INDUsTRY.
One Firm Has Shipped Out of Holton
$50 Car Loads Since September.

Oswego. May 2S-Within the past
few months A. Piper & Son of Labette
have shipped south 1850 horses and
mules.
Joseph Levi of Galveston has also
bought and shipped several car loads
from OsWeEO while Erwin, Grant &
Co. have shipped from Humboldt, K an,
between September /, 1895, and April 1.
1886, $50 car loads of horses and mules,
or over $500 900 worth; in these ship
ments were several car loads of small
mules for Central America, also ten
fine teams of matched carriage horses
that sold on an average of $240 per
span for the same country.
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ESTATE GOES 10 A CONVICT
Death of a Fort Scott WomanReveals
Family Skeleton.

Fort Scott. May 2s-DIrs Martha
Galloway, a large property owner Of
this city. died, leaving will, bequeath-
ing to her son, Clark Beden, who is a
life convict in the New York state pris-
on at Auburn half of her valuable es-
tate and precluding her husband from
any share of it.
The convict son was for many years
a prominent man of this city. and his
disgrace a profound secret until the
mother died and the step-father retain
ed counsel to contest the will The ma
tUre of Bedell's offense is not known
here.
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.WFIL RUM
ACTS OF HERors1r.
Human Bravery Manifests Itself in
Varied Forms in the Storm.

st. Louis. May 28.-The passengers
on different boats related many acts
of herOisn performed by the rousLa-
bouts On the Libbie Conger, which
was ground to pieces On the Illinois
shore, were Captain Seaman wife and
child. a little boy aged 8 When the
storm first appeared a negro, whose
name is unknown. took the child up
in his arms and plunged overheard,
bearing the captains boy safely
through the boiling waters to the 4lli-
nois shore.
CAPTAIN Seaman rescued his wife.
This morning John McDoWel,a roust-
about on the tug Reliance, which is
performing great work among the
boats which line the Illinois bank for
miles down the river, returned to the
city. He was burdened with mes
sages to loving ones in this city from
fathers and brothers telling Of their
They reported that the Madnl had
been blown to pieces and that the crew
swan ashore. He said he thought
that every man Of the crew escaped
with his life He reported that the
ferries at the foot of Anna street and
at East Car0ndOlet had been blown to
pieces and sunk with their crews ana
passengers This could not pc Nerl-
ned but the negro has stated positive
ly that such was the case
Captain Pat Carmody's presence Of
mind prevented panic at the FAIR
grounds When the crowd appealed for
protection from the tornado Pat cor
rallied the frightened people under the
stand and forced them to remain there.
He held a mob of about 500 i'm check,
and it was lucky for them that he did
SO. Everybody was trying to get out
and wanted to make a break for the
south side Of the stand While Car
rnody was holding them back the roof
Of the stand was blown out and the
debris fell just where the people want
ed to go. CarmOdy's good Judgment
saved many lives The roof of the
stand was blown in all directions Part
Of A landed on the natural bridge road
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TRAIN BLOWN orr THE TRACK


Ok Ioac1es CONTAINING $40 EeopLs
Overturned.
st. Louis May 2s.-As train No. IS Of
the Merchants Terminal pulled out Of
Granite City III. at 6.15 p. m. it was
struck by the second division of the
hurricane and was carried from the
track, overturning six coaches con-
tanning $40 passengers
The train is known as the work
train nd-carrfes employees to and from
their work at the Niedringhhaus roll
ing mills and stamping works at Gran
lite City.
Robert Miller. foreman of the rolling
department, received injuries from
which he died
Miss Nellie Hagemann received in
5uries which may prove fatal.
All the other passengers escaped
without injury except about forty VINO
received a few scratches. The dam
age in Granite City is reported slight.
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rHF KINsLEY CREAMERY.
Now Handling Successfully 5000
Pounds Of Milk DailY.

Kinsley. May 28.-The quantity of
milk at the creamery has increased to
about 5000 pounds and it is safe to say
that by the first of June it will be
handling at least 5000 pounds of milk
daily. At present prices patrons are
getting just double for their butter that
they are offered at the stores, realizing
at least 20 per cent more butter from
the same milk with none of the trOu-
bic of making One wagon started this
week from a distance Of 10 miles and
brought in a thousand pounds of milk.