CONNOR EXPLAINS STORM.
Due to Contact of Two High Baro-
metric Areas.
Last night's storm was due to a combination of two areas of high barometric pressure, one in the Northwest and the other in the Southeast sections of the country. The air currents, both revolving in a great arc from left to right, met in the vicinity of this city.
"The conflict of these air currents will produce tornadoes," said P. Connor, the local weather observer, yesterday afternoon, while the sky was yet serene.
About 5 o'clock his prediction was justified. Sheets of water descended that had filled the rain gauge 1.15 inches before 6 o'clock. While the rain fall was heavy there was very little high wind in the city, except in gusts.
Telegraph wires between the city and Independence, Pleasant Hill and Elden, Mo., were blown down.
At the south office of the Home Telephone company, Thirty-eighth street and Warwick boulevard, lightning was carried into the building on the wires and all the telephone girls stampeded.
Lightning struck a house at 1816 Summit street, and caused damage amounting to $200. No one was injured.
