The record-union., 1894-08-27
Special to the RECORD UNION.


Before 1t.
| Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 26.-At least
thousand persons are believed to have
lost their lives in cyclone that swept
across the Sea of Azov yesterday. 1t is
feared that at least two parties of Ameri-
can tourists were on the Sea OF AZoy at
the time the wind did it's deadly work.
All the afternoon there has been 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 Crimea, visiting
Sebastopol. Balaklava and the other
famous battle scenes.
The parties were separate, but it is
probable that they started within twelve
hours of each other. and according to the
schedules OF these excursions they would
have reached the strait OF Kertch yester-
day 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 a trip short
distance north from Temrink into the
land of the black Cossacks. If this party
branched oft in that way they have un-
questionably perished, Tor the hurricane
ravaged almost the entire east shore of
the Sea OF AZoy.
This report recounts wide havoc. The
wind was first felt at Nogaisk. 1t came
from the southwest and the terrified in
habitants of the town felt in a minute
that the storm was of more than ordinary
magnitude.
Nogaisk is peopled mostly by fisher
men who were out on the water, and the
shrieks OF their wives as the blast
lnomentarily increased were heartrend-
ing. With every minute blasts grew
more violent and houses began TO fall as
If they were made OF cards.
When the hurricane had swept on to
the north a terrible scene was presented.
| The village was raZed, overturned as if
an immense plow had been pushed
through it. Lying everywhere were
women and children dead. or in the last
agonies, and the living had added grief,
tor the shallow waters of the Sea OF Fishes,
as Azov is called, 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
Marinopal it devastated the country to a
point eleven miles inland, and had its
outer edge far upon the sea. Marinopal
was practically blotted out of existence.
Not three houses in a hundred are LETT
standing. 1t is estimated that over 200
persons perished in the town alone.
North of Marinopal the storm seems TO
have made a sudden turn to the eastward
over Delagapolnt, its left edge inficting
slight damage OH the town OF Berdionski.
Houses were unroofed and a dozen per-
sons were killed by falling timbers. Once
at sea the storm made its full fury 1elt.
The sight from the shore is said to have
been appalling in its suggestion of wreck
and death.
OF the steamers that touch at the Port
of Berdianski 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 the storm af-
fects it greatly. One spectator says that
at times he could see sand 200 feet from
shore, the wind appearing to fairly lift
the water from It's bed. When the wind
swept over the northern end of Azov it
took new course, going southerly along
the coast of the land of the Black Cos
sacks. In turn Fisk and Achuey were
ravaged, each town being almost totally
destroyed. Telegraph communication
with this district is suspended. and ii is
impossible to learn the extent OF the deS-
truction, 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 Tenrink.
and apassed Oft with comparative quiet
southerly, over the Black Sea.
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SWEPT EVERYTHING BEFORE 1T.
The Dam TO Lake Gives Way, Flood
ing the Valleys Below.
SIMLA, Aug. 26.-Jona Lake, which has
for some time past been threatening to
break it's banks and sweep down the val
ley, at the head of which it lies, has
broken the dam. Thousands of tons of
water poured through the valley like cat
aract, sweeping everything beforeit. Huge
powders were swept along like so many
pebbles. The rainfall during the mon
soon has been noticeably heavy, and the
water rose with great rapidity. The per-
collation. at the dam became very heavy,
and the engineers who examined 1t de-
cided that its breakage was imminent.
10 repair was impossible, and the Gov
ernment at once took steps to guard
against loss of life.
Earthquake in Greece.
ATHENS, Aug. 26.-An earthquake was
felt here at O'Clock this evening. The
inhabitants of some of the places affected
were terribly frightened, thinking there
was to be repetition of the shocks some
time ago. So far as is known no persons
were killed.
The Revolt In Peru.
LONDON, Aug. pa Lima dispatch
says band of 500 insurgents armed
with Winchester rifles are reported to be
moving northward from the southern
frontier. The Government has sent
further reinforcements, and collision is
daily expected.
Seven Persons Killed.
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