Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
THOUSANDS KILLED.
Calamity at the Cars Coronation
Free Lunch.
Hu> 'ery Peasants Rush for the Tables ana
Ira. nPle Thousands to Death-Cloud-
bun.,s at Seneca. Mo.-eiloomy
Sunday In 81. Louis
Calamity at = Russian Feast.

Sunday In S.. Louis.
Calamity at = Russian Feast.
Moscow, June Ia terrible parfic,
resulting from the great crush of
people at the popular feast here Satur-
day in honor of the coronation of the
car, caused the trampling to death of
thousands of people. In anticipation
of the grand holiday and popular BAN
quet on the Hodynsky plain. tens of
thousands of people began trooping
toward the Petrovsky palace. in front
of which the plain is situated, during
the earliest hours Saturday. 1t was
at first arranged to accommodate 400, 600
people, but in view of the immense
crowds assent led in and about the
city at the coronation fete, extra tables
and benches were hastily erected and
every effort was made to provide
seating room and hearty meal
for 500. 900 people. By dawn the
mass of peasants about the tables
was really enormous, and they were
all desperately hungry, some of them
having tasted, by choice or necessity.
for nearly pa hours. The police did
everything possible to keep back the
crowd, but suddenly the masses, con-
trolled by some inexplicable impulse,
or impatient to get at the food, pressed
forward, swept everything before
them, and overturned tables and
benches as if made of grass, tramp1ing
hundreds under foot and crushing the
life out of q great number of people.
The police barracks, to which the
bodies of the dead were taken by the
auth orities, are besieged with persons
beseeching for news of friends and
relatives The scenes at the barracks
where the process of Identification is
going on are terrible in the extreme.
1t is said the fatalities will amount
to between 1000 and 5000, but it is i'm
possible as yet to learn exactly the
extent of the disaster. An official
statement yesterday placed the num-
Der of dead recovered at /, 1876 and the
seriously or fatally injured at 2s6.
But, in contrast with this official state
ment, there were ,2s2 corpses lying at
the cemetery, besides the many dead
and dying that are known to have been
removed from the Inflated field by
friends.
Cloudburst Seneca, Mo.
NEosHo, Mo-, June 1.-Two cloud
bursts occurred in this county at an
early hour Saturday morning, one at
this place and one at Seneca Sylves-
ter Wood was drowned at Neosho by
the overturning of boat while being
taken from the flooded district
Eighteen persons are missing at Sem
eca and it is certain that all have been
drowned. Fifteen bodies have already
been found. The lost are as follows:
III. Andreas, wife and three children;
| Carl Schmidt, wife and five children;
| Mrs. Henry Robinson and one child;
little Willie Dobbler and Archie Will
liams; wife of Rev Harry White. Rev.
Harry White occupied rooms over the
Dispatch Office with his wife. The
building was entirely swept away and
| Rev. White and his wife with it. Mr..
White was found in a drift, bruised
and insensib1e, but at last accounts
was improving and will probably re-
cover. The dead body of his wife was
found Saturday afternoon.
The condition of Seneca is pitiable.
1t is town of 1, 200 inhabitants, 16
miles west of here, and is situated in a
valley. The water extended from
| bluff to bluff and was from four to six
| feet deep in every business house
Many buildings were washed away.
| The Frisco railroad has two bridges
out near Dayton and Seneca, and much
track washed away. The Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf has washouts north
of NeoshO.
| Dismal Sunday.
ST. LOUIS, June Livery rail-
road entering this storm-stricken city
ran excursion trains yesterday. They
brought scores of thousands of people
to view the devastation wrought by
the awful storm of Wednesday,. The
streets of the ruined district were
thronged with visitors all day. They
came from almost every town and city
within a radius of 800 miles Nearly
all day a cold. drizzling rain fell. Low
| he
sky and a more dismal scene than the
ruined portion of the city presented
could scarcely be imagined. And
through the crowded streets all day
came long flu neral professions Nearly
100 burial permits were issued by the
health department Saturday and
every hearse in the city was in con-
slant use yesterday carrying victims
of the storm to their graves