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 Image: Title: Date: Description:
1. Flood Costs Near $100 Million Flood Costs Near $100 Million November/10/1977
2. 1951 Flood 1951 Flood
3. Q.: Has the Kansas City Area Ever Had an Earthquake? Q.: Has the Kansas City Area Ever Had an Earthquake? November/27/1988
4. 1977 Flood 1977 Flood
5. Tornadoes Tornadoes
6. The Voice of the Church The Voice of the Church December 2007 "Bells across Missouri ring out for more than a century." This article gives a short synopsis of the bells in five of the earliest churches in Missouri including the five bells, named Matthew, Mark, Luke,...
7. 1977 Flood 1977 Flood October 29, 1977 "Kansas City applied to the federal government yesterday for an advance of $500,000 on a total of $1,354,711 in damages to city facilities in the flood Sept. 12. The application to the Federal Disaster...
8. Has The Kansas City Area Ever Had an Earthquake? Has The Kansas City Area Ever Had an Earthquake? November 27, 1988 "Yes. A quake occurred in 1931, although records are sketchy so not much is known about it. And earlier ones were reported. But the last earthquake in the metropolitan area occurred on Christmas morning,...
9. Some of Kansas City's Most Noteworthy Natural Disasters Some of Kansas City's Most Noteworthy Natural Disasters May 5, 2003 1886 Tornado; 1903 Flood; 1951 Flood; 1957 Ruskin Heights Tornado; 1977 Plaza Flood; 1979 Kemper Roof Collapse; 1993 Flood; 1996 Lee's Summit Microburst; 1998 Flash Floods; 2000 Tonganoxie Tornado; 2002...
10. Steamboats Steamboats 1897-1950 A collection of 63 pages of photocopied newspaper articles from local, state, and national newspapers on various aspects of steamboats and steamboating on the Missouri and Kansas rivers. The bulk of the...
11. Hyatt Regency Hotel Skywalk Collapse Hyatt Regency Hotel Skywalk Collapse 1981-2001 A collection of photocopied newspaper articles, primarily from the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times, detailing the collapse of the skywalk at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. During an evening tea dance...
12. DAR, Elizabeth Benton Chapter Scrapbook Finding Aid DAR, Elizabeth Benton Chapter Scrapbook Finding Aid 1921 A Kansas City Times article dated Nov. 12, 1979, stated that the Elizabeth Benton DAR chapter, located in Kansas City, Mo., was the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution formed west...
13. Automobile Accident Automobile Accident Accident at Grand and 14th. Police ambulance at the scene.
14. Icy Barrage Pummels KC Area; State Leaders Declare a Disaster Icy Barrage Pummels KC Area; State Leaders Declare a Disaster February/1/2002 According to the article, half of the area (350,000 customers) was without power at the peak of the ice storm which began January 29 and ended the evening of January 31. An estimated 20,000 trees fell...
15. The Autobiography of a Westport Pioneer The Autobiography of a Westport Pioneer May 1965 Account of Westport, starting in 1854, by one of its early settlers, Anna E. Charles Krueger, Jr., or Anna Krueger. Includes descriptions of various disasters befalling the area, including an earthquake...
16. Ruskin Heights Tornado Ruskin Heights Tornado 1957 Aerial photograph of aftermath of tornado.
17. Ruskin Heights Tornado Ruskin Heights Tornado 1957 Aerial view of damage to Ruskin Heights High School.
18. Ruskin Heights Tornado Ruskin Heights Tornado 1957 Aerial view of damage to Ruskin Heights High School.
19. Ruskin Heights Tornado Ruskin Heights Tornado 1957 Aerial view of damage to unidentified buildings.
20. Ruskin Heights Tornado Ruskin Heights Tornado 1957 Aerial view of damage to unidentified buildings.