The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-01
AT KANSAS CITY.
Great Alarm Felt and Hotel Guests
Were Aroused.

The Kansas City Times this morning
published the following
Residents of Kansas City who were
on the streets between 2 and o'clock
Sunday morning were treated to
sight in the way of an advance guard
OF weather that had an the indica-
tions of being the prelude to q cyclone
Saturday night the weather was very
warm. and as the hands Of the clock
Creeped around to Sunday morning
those who We're awake found a very
oppressive heat. which lasted only
few minutes. This was followed by
severe wind. which reached at times a
rate of thirty miles am hour The wind
was from the southwest and took
iagOual course tO the north The sky
was Illuminated with flashes of Hght-
ming of a Whitish blue color. and as the
last gleam of the lightning died away
there was a greenish color in the Sky.
The wind. DURING all the time of the
disturbance was very heavy. but it
varied in its course and shifted from
one point TO another. until it died away
at s. o'clock in the morning
The rainfall was frequent from s
O'Clock until s. and the last downpOur
was a perfect deluge- In many i'm
and other places The total fan of rain
was 1S7 inches and one inch of this
fell i'm eight minutes, which is tine most
that has been known in this locality in
the same length of time for ten years
Observer Hail of the weather bureau
received q telegram from Washington
Saturday night instructing him 70 OBJ
serve closely the conditions OF the
weather. and if there was q sudden fan
In the barometer to send out q warn
ing- Mr.. Hail was constantly taking
observations, and when at O'Clock in
the morning the barometer slipped
down he felt that q storm was brew
ing. He accordingly notified the tell
ephOne exchange to inform the hotels
railroad Offices and the morning papers
that the conditions at this point were
very favorable for a severe thunder
storm which might possibly develop
into tornado
Central" executed her orders very
promptly. for i'm less than five minutes
all the places named were i'm possession
of the Information Very little warning
was needed from any source i'm some
parts of the city. for on am sides could
be seen people in scaut attire. who had
been aroused from their slumbers by
the action of the elements. At the
Midland hotel Manager StOckham
aroused all his help and had every
thing prepared to send a sudden notice
to the guests of the house The engi-
machinery AMI all Of the elevators
We're fla readiness for instant use Bell
Po4s We're on every floor, prepared to
assist the sleeping people from their
rooms ana inform them of the state OF
affairs.
AT the other hotels. with one or two
exceptions. the guests were aroused
and treated to a novel but av-a-frsrir--
ing sight AT the WASHINGTON hotel
Twelfth and Washington sreets. an the
guests We're Up and walking the streets
to ind places of cOncealrnent from
what looked like a terrible storm
Other parts Of the city were the same
and many a person who has resided
in Kansas City for years spent vester-
day in congrat atulating himself on the
city escaping the storm.
Observer Hall says that the fndica-
tfons were precisely the same in this
city Sunday morning as the plight thai
preceded the cyclone of St Louis last
Wednesday, lie accounts the passins
over of the storm to the fact that be.
fore the cluods were forced together oi
started the Whirli1g motion that the5