History of Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 29. - A fire which threatened to destroy the mammoth packing houses of Armour & Co. in Kansas City, Kan., was discovered in the fertilizer at 3 o'clock this morning. The fertilizer was the last of the buildings to the north, and was separated from the refinery works by only a narrow alley.

The fire started in the south end of the building and spread with amazing rapidity amid the inflammable contents. The firemen of Armour were quickly on the scene, and were soon followed by the departments from this city and from Kansas City, Kan. Their combined efforts to extinguish the blaze were of no avail, and in a half hour they gave up the fight and directed their efforts toward saving the adjoining buildings. In this way they were successful.

In three-quarters of an hour after the fire was discovered the east wall fell, and soon afterward the entire building was in ruins and the contents wholly destroyed.

The loss is $110,000 - $30,000 on the building, $60,000...

Kansas City, Kansas, the capital of Wyandotte co, created in 1886 by the consolidation of the then village of Kansas City with the towns of Wyandotte, Armourdale, and others under its present name, is situated at the junction of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, adjacent to Kansas City, Mo. (from which it is nominally separated by the state line), and at the convergence of several important railways, eight or more of which have their terminal stations at this point. This city is noted as the seat of immense stock and meat packing interests, its yards and packing-houses being second only to those of Chicago in the volume of business done. Here were received in 1892, 699,578 head of cattle, 1,773,000 hogs, 32,341 calves, 160,317 sheep, and 32,831 horses and mules. Of the food animals, about sixty per cent., aggregating 570,000,000 pounds, was consumed at the packing houses. The city has also an extensive grain and flour trade, there being received at its mills and elevators in 1892,...

In early literature and in early United States Indian treaties the Indian word” Kansas” appears as Caucis, Konza, Konseas, Kons, Kanzaw, Kanzau, Kaw, and Kanzas. Kansas, meaning smoky, was the name of a tribe of Indians still existing in the Indian Territory and it came to be applied to all the country west of the Missouri River over which the tribe roamed (the country which is now largely in the State of Kansas), and also to its chief river.

There are two Kansas Cities, one in Misouri, the other in Kansas. The Kansas City in Missouri was named after the Kansas Indians, the Kansas River, the Kansas country, or all of them. The Kansas City in Kansas was named after the Kansas City in Missouri. The two cities are one except in law and the line dividing them is not discoverable except by the surveyor. The Kansas City in Kansas was made up of a number of small towns the chief of which was Wyandotte. It was thought that the Kansas town would be helped by adopting the good name belonging ...

The first reliable information from Kansas City, Kan., was just received. In that district 20,000 persons are homeless. A number have been drowned, and the property loss has been heavy. The situation there is no better and no worse.

There is no great probability that there will be further loss of life. All through the wholesale district and in the east and west bottoms there are people still in houses. The police have done wonders in rescuing people and have probably brought 250 persons to the high ground in 12 hours. Twenty persons were taken from the Martin school and 30 from O'Brien's lodging house in the east bottoms. The rest of them were brought in singly or in small numbers. In the east and west bottoms a number of obstinate people are still clinging to their homes, although the police have run boats beneath their windows and offered to save them. They refuse to leave and will take their chances for another day.

It is impossible to form any estimate of the number of dead...

Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30. - Fire of unknown origin in the canning department of the $27,000,000 packing plant of Nelson Morris & Co., in Kansas City, Kan., caused a loss of $500,000.

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Kansas City, the largest city of Kansas, capital of Wyandotte co., created in 1886 by the consolidation of the then village of Kansas City with the towns of Wyandotte, Armourdale, and Armstrong under its present name, is situated at the junction of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, adjacent to Kansas City, Mo. (from which it is nominally separated by the state line). It Is on the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pacific Rs. This city is noted as the seat of immense stock and meat-packing interests, its yards and packing-houses being second only to those of Chicago in the volume of business done. Several million head of stock are handled here yearly, and the value of the "packed" product exceeds $50,000,000. The city has also a very extensive grain and flour trade, with vast grain-elevators, railroad- and machine-shops, manufactories of soap, fertilizers, engines, locomotives, etc. It is the seat of Kansas City University and of a state institution for the blind. Numerous bridges span the...