Working on the Wyatt mystery has led to looking long and hard at the story of the jail collapse itself. Collecting names from first party witnesses thus has provided the following list of inmates:

Mrs Nan Harris McCorkle (age 19) (father was Reuben Harris had a mill at Little Blue mother was Laura Fristoe)
*#Mrs Charity McCorkle Kerr
*#Mrs Susan (Silvey?) Vandiver
*#Mrs Annina Whitsett-Gilvey (Silvey?)
*$Josephine Anderson (14)
Miss Sue Mundy now Mrs N M Womacks of Blue Springs
Miss Molly Cranstaff (Grindstaff?) now Mrs William Clay
Molly Anderson (16)
Janie Anderson (10)

*Reported Killed and buried Smith Family Cemetery "near Raytown"
$Josephine Anderson buried Union cemetery
#Cousins

The Kansas City Star. (November 19, 1911). . Newspapers.com. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/118871454/

The Kansas City Star. (March 14, 1913). Girls prison story. Newspapers.com. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-girls-prison-story/117219573/

Columbia Herald-Statesman. (June 7, 1912). Women's Prison collapse KC MO. Newspapers.com. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbia-herald-statesman-womens-prison/143370448/

Personal recollections of Sue Mundy Womacks and Molly Clay coincide with reporting of Nan Harris Lilley's sister that 9 women (children really as none were older than 20) were held. What is missing is any with the last name of Wyatt. All nine were directly or indirectly related to each other and families with strong guerrilla connections. There remains still the question of whether the building fell due to age and disrepair or whether it was helped by soldiers undermining a basement wall. In any case, during this period where "honor" still held some small sway, the idea of locking up 10 to 14 year old females to get to grown men combatants would certainly raise a reaction. It did, mission accomplished.