Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-27
L0ST0NTHESEAOFAzOV
Two Parties of American Ex-
 cursionists Are Missing.
PROBABLY CAUGHT BY A CYCLONE.

4 Wind of Death Swept Across the Shallow
 Up a Thousand Persons Destruction
 Along the Shores.
 of deathl No other name can describe the cyclone that swept across the sea of Azov. It will be impossible for days yet to com pute the damage done but 1t is almost certain that at least l. GOO people have per ished, some by drowning, others by being crushed under falling houses and trees.
 The excitement Is great among tho American colony in this city for 1t Is feared that at least two parties of Ameri- can tourists were on the sea of Azov at the time the wind did its deadly work.
 All the forcnoon 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 havo started on the regular sightseeing trip across the Crimca, visiting Scbastopol, Balaklava and the other famous battle scenes.
 Excursionists Divided.
 The parties were separate but 1t is prob ablo that they started within 12 hours of each other, and according to the sched- ule of these excursions they would have reached the strait of Kertch Saturday morning, thence go by steamboat north to Berdiansk, where they were to take the train back to Odessa. It Is said that the leader of one of these parties had proposed a trip n short distance north from Tenn rink into the land of the black Cossacks. It his party branched of in that way, | they havo unquestionably pcrishcd, fOl tho hurricane ravascd almost tho entirC east shorc of the sea of Azov. Everybody a. n. the excurs!onists so that they could not reach their embarking port today. At a latc hour thcrU was still only gen eral report of tho disaster on which tC baso surmIses of the Americans safety l This report accounts wide havoc. Tho wind was first felt at Nogaisk. Nogaist | Is pcopled mostly by fishermen who wcrI out on the water.
 When tho hurricane hnd swept out tS the north. n terrible scene was presented l Tho village was raECd-ovcrturncd ns | an immense blow had been pushed thrOugl | 1t Lying everywhere werc women anI | children dead or in the last agonicS O death. Tho shallow waters of tho sea O | AZov wcru lashcd Into such n height tha 1t was plain that every fishing boat mu, have bcon sunk.
 Tine cyclone swept on to tho Tor, hcas ] after wrCcking NCG1iEk. Its path scCin to hayo been unusually wide, for nt Ma | rinopal 1t drvastatCd tho country to point II miles inland and had its outC | edge far upon tho Sca Marinupal Wa | practically hlottcd out of existence. No three houses in lO0 arc left standing.
 No Missing Steamers Heard Prom.
 It Is estimated that over "O0 pCrishc | in this town alone. North of MaTinupa tho storm seems to have made n suddC turn to tho eastward over DolgapOint, it left edge inflicting slight damage to tn town of Berdiansk. Houses thero wcr unroofed, and dozen persons worc killc by falling timberS Once at sea, tn storm made Its full fury felt.
 Il Of tho steamers that touch at the DOT of Berdiansk, not one had come In at tn expressed that every craft in the sea ha gone to the bottom and that every passen ger is drowned.
 When the wind swept over the north ern end of Azov, 1t took n new course going southorly along the coast of tn land of tho black Cossack. In turn Els | and Achucv were ravaged, each town b ing almost totally destroyed.
 Photographic communication with thi district is suspended. and 1t Is impossibl to learn the extent of the destruction, bu at least l,O00 persons must have died O | the two shores Tho storm, as nearly q can now be learned, seems to have suddCr ly lost its force near Temrink and passc | oil with comparative quiet to tho sout | over the Black sea