St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-27
MANY AMERICANS MISSING
Two Parties Of Tourists Be-
lieved to Have Lost Their
Lives.
NOTHING IS HEARD OF THEM
Several Villages on AZov's
Shores We're Entirely
Swept Away.

ST PETERSBURG, Aug. 26.-A wind Of
death. No other name can describe
the cyclone that swept across the Sea of
Azoy yesterday. 1t will BIZ impossible
for days yet to compute the damage
done, but it is almost certain that at
least 1000 people have perished. some
by drowning, others by being crushed
under fallen houses and trees. The eX-
element is great among the American
colony in this city, for it is feared that
atleast two parties of American tourists
were on the Sea of Azov at the time the
wind did its deadly work. All the aft
ernoon there has been a stream Of call
ers at the Office of the American minis
ter. asking, almost begging, for news
from Odessa, whence the tourists were
to have started on the regulation
Sightseeing Trip
across the Crimea, visiting Sabastopol,
Balaklava and the other famous battle
scenes. The parties we're separate, but
it is probable that they started within
twelve hours of each other. and, ac.
cording to the schedule of these excur.
sions, they would have reached the
Strait of Kertch yesterday morning,
thence to go by steamboat north to
Berdiansk, where they would take the
train back to Odessa. 1t is said that
the leader of one of these parties had
proposed trip short distance north
from Temrink into the land of the
Black Cossacks. If his party branched
off in that way, it has unquestionably
perished, for the hurricane rayaged al
most the entire east shore of the Sea Of
Azov. Everybody is praying that some
lncky chance delayed the excursionists.
so that they could not reach their en-
barking port today. At late hour
there was still only a general report OF
the disaster in which to base sur
misses of
The Americans Safety.
This report recounts wide havoc.
The wind was first felt at Nogaisk.
Nogaisk is peopled mostly by fisher.
men, who were out OIL the water. When
the hurricane had swept out to the
North terrible scene was presented.
The village was raised-overturned as
il an immense plow had pushed through
it. Lying everywhere were women and
children, dead or in the last agonies.
The shallow waters OF the sea of Azov
were lashed to such height that it was
plain that every fishing boat must have
been sunk. The cyclone swept on to
the northeast after wrecking Nogaisk.
Its path seems to have been unusually
wide, for at Marinopol it devastated
the 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 hundred are left standing.
1t is estimated that over 200 persons
perished i'll the town alone. North of
Marinopol, the storm seems to have
mde sudden
Turn to the Eastward
over Dolgax Points, its left edge inf1ict-
ing Slight damage to the town of Berdl-
ansk. Houses there were unroOfed and
a dozen persons were killed by falling
timbers. Once at sea the storm made
its full fairy felt. 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 in the sea has gone to the
bottom and that every passenger is
drowned. When the wind swept over
the northern end of the AZov it took
new course, going sOutherly along the
the coast of the land Of the Black
Cossacks. Fisk and Achuev were
rayaged, each town being almost totally
destroyed. Telegraphic communication
with this district is suspended. and it is
impossible to learn the extent of the
destruction, but at least 1000 persons
must have died OH the two shores. The
storm. as nearly as can now be learned,
seemed to suddenly lose its fury near
Temrink. and passed off with compara-
tive quiet southerly over the Black sea.