The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-27
THE RUSSIAN STORM.
4 thousand Lives Lost on and
Around the Sea of Azoy.
rrsRs FOB AMERICAN TOURISTS.
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er PEfxnsKUps. Aug. 28.-words can
,ot deser1ne the wind that swept across
"a. Sea Of Azov Yesterday. IL viii DO i'm
sosslkIe for days yet 70 compute the dam
.zs done, but II Is almost certain that
100 have persisted. some By drowning,
athsrs By being crushed under failing
horses The excitement il great among
ne American colony in this city. for IL Is
ssassd that at least tao parties Of Ameri-
esa tourists were in the Sea Of Arrow At the
tsa. the wind did its deadly work. All
ths afternoon there has been a string of
r<rsons at the American ministry asking.
s.moss begging. for news from Odessa,
rnsrce the tourists were 10 have started
a tie regulation sightseeing trip
across the Crimea. Visiting Sebasto-
pol. Balaklava and the other famous
battle seenes. The parties wers sep
srase, but IL is probable they started
sithin twelve hours of each other,
ard according 10 the schedule OF these ex-
eussions they would have reached the
Straits Of Kertoh yesterday morning, going
sbencs BY steamboat north TO Berdiansk,
where they would take train back to
Odessa. 1t Is said the leader Of one OF these
parties had proposed a trip short dis
lance north from Temunk into the land OF
the Black Cossacks. II his party branched
q in that way they have undoubtedly
psrished, for the storm ragged almost along
the entire east coast OF that state. liz ia
hoped that come lucky chance delayed
the excursion yesterday 50 they could not
reach their embarking port today. Ala
late hour there was still q general report OF
the disaster on which TO base surmises Of
,ke Americans safety.
The wind was first felt at NogAisk.
Eogaisk IL peopied mostly by fishermen,
who we're out on the water When the
hurricane had swept out 10 the north a
terrible scene was presented. The village
vas razed. overturned, as IL an immense
plow had been pushed through it, Lying
sveryShere were women and children,
dead or In the last agonies. The shallow
waters Of the Sea OF Axov were dashed to
such height that IL was plain every fish.
Ing boat must have been sunk. The
cyclone swept on TO the northwest after
wfecking Nogaisk. Its path seemed to
have been unusually wide, for at Mari-
nopol IL devastated the country TO point
eleven miles inland and had its outer
edge far upon the sea. Marinopol was
practically blotted out Of existence. Not
three houses In a hundred are left stand
ing. II il estimated that 800 persons per-
ished in this place alone North OF here
the cyclone made a sudden turn TO the
east over Dolga points. It's left edge in
nieted slight damage to the town OF Ber-
dimsk. Houses were unroofed and q
dozen persons killed by falling timbers.
Once at sea the storm made its full fury
felt. OF the steamers that touch at the
port of Berdimsk, not one came in at the
hour OF the latest report Grave fears are
expressed that every craft on the sea has
gone TO the bottom, and that every pas
senger il drowned. When the winds
swept over the northern end of Azov they
took new course, and. going southersy
along the coast OF the land Of the Black
Cossacks, Turneisk and Achuev were raw
aged. each town being almost totally de-
slroyed. Telegraphie communication with
this district IL suspended and IL Is impos-
slble 10 learn the extent OF the destruction,
but at least 200 persons must have died
on the two shores. The storm. as nearly
=. can now be learned. seemed 10 suddenly
lose its force near the Emernk. and passed
of with~eomparative quiet southerly over
the Black sea.