The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
DEADLY STORM.
The Number Of Dead Will Probably
Reach One Thousand.
IT is Feared Many American Tourist. Met
Desth--several villages ip tho Cyclones
Path Swept From the Esrth-Tre-
mendous Damage to Shipping.

mendous Damage to Shipping.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Aug. 27.--A wind of
death. No other name can describe
the cyclone that swept across the Sea
of Azov Saturday. 1t will be impossi-
BILE for days yet to compute the damage
done. But it is almost certain that at
least one thousand persons have per-
ished, some by drowning. others by
being crushed under falling houses and
trees.
The excitement is great among the
American colony in this city, for it 10
feared that at least two parties of
American tourists were on the sea of
Azov at the time the wind did its dead
ly work. All the afternoon there has
been a stream of callers at the office of
the American minister asking, almost
begging, for news from Odessa, whence
the tourists were to have started on the
regulation sightseeing trip across the
Crimea, visiting Sebastapol, Balaklava
and the other famous battle scenes.
1t is said that the leader of one of
these parties had proposed trip q
short distance north from Temrink,
into the land of the Black Cossacks. If
his party branched off in that way they
have unquestionably perished, for the
hurricane ravaged almost the entire
east shore of the Sea of Azov.
Everybody is praying that some
lucky chance delayed the excursionists,
so that they could not reach their en-
barking port. At a late hour there was
still only general report of the disas-
ter on which to base surmises of the
Americans safety. This report re-
counts wide havoc.
The wind was first felt at Nogais,.
1t came from the southwest, and the
terrified inhabitants Of the town felt
in very few minutes that the storm
was of more than ordinary magnitude.
Nogoisk is peopled mostly by fisher
men, who were out on the water, and
the shrieks of their wives ashore as the
blast momentarily increased were
heartrending. With every minute the
blasts grew more violent, and houses
began to fall as if they were made Of
cards.
When the hurricane had swept out
to the north terrible scene was pre-
sented. The village was razed--over-
turned-as if an immense plow had
been pushed through it. Lying every
where were women and children, dead
or in the last agonies. The shallow
waters of the Sea of Fishes, as Azov is
called, were dashed to such a height
that II was plain that every fishing
boat must have been sunk
The cyclone swept on to the north
east after wrecking Nogaisk. It's path
seems to have been unusually wide, for
at Marinopol it devastated the country
to a point eleven miles inland and had
its outer edge far upon the sea. Mar
inopol was practically biotted out OF
existence. Not three houses out of q
hundred are left standing.
1t is estimated that over two hun.
dred persons perished in this town
! alone. North of Marinopol the storm
seems to have made sudden turn to
the eastward over Dolga points, its
left edge intlicting slight damage to
the town of Berdimsk. Houses there
were unroofed and dozen persons
were killed by falling timbers.
Once at sea the storm made it's full
fury felt. The sight from the shore is
said to have been appalling in its sug.
gestion of wreck and death.
OF the steamers that touch at the
port of Berdiansk, not one had come 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 passenger is drowned. The
sea is SO shallow that storm affects it
greatly. One spectator says that at
times he could see the sand two hun.
dred feet from shore, the wind appear
ing to fairly lift the water from ita
bed.
When the wind swept over the north.
ern end of Azov IL took new course,
going southerly along the coast of the
! land of the Black Cossacks. In turn
Fisk and Achuev were ravaged, each
town being almost totally destroyed.
Telegraphic communication with this
| district is suspended and it is impossi-
BILE to learn the extent of the destruc-
ton, but at least 1000 persons must
| have died on the two shores. The
storm, as nearly as can now be learned,
seemed to suddenly lose it's force near
Temrink and passed off with compara-
tive quiet southerly over the Black sea.
/