The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-27

st. Louis. Aug. pa special to the
Globe-Democrat erom st. Petersburg.
says:
A wind of 1eath No other words can
describe the cyclone that swept across the
sea Of AZof yesterday. It would be i'm
s62gsible for lays yet to compute he dam
rsge done, but it is almost certain that
LOCO have persisted, soma by drowning,
Others by being crushed under falling
houses and trees.
The excitement is great among the
American colony in this city, for it is
feared that at least two parties of Ameri-
can tourists were on the sea of Aztof at
the time the wind did its deadly work.
Begging For News.
All the afternoon there has been a string
of sailors at the American ministry ask
ing, almost begging, for news from Odes-
ga, where the tourists were to have start
ed on the regulation sight seeing trip
across the Crimaa, visiting Sebastapcol.
BalaklaVa, and Uhe other famous battle
scenes. The parties We're separated but
II is probable they started within twelve
lfHIrs Of zach other, and according to the
81 edule of these excursions they would
I've reached the Strait Of l<erteh YES
ksday morning, going thence by steamboat
#lorth to Eerdiansk, where they would take
q train back to Odessa.
1t is said the leader of one of these
parties had proposed trip short dis
lance north from Temrink into the lake
of the Black CopAcks. If this party
branched off into that way. they have un-
uuestionably peTished, Cor the storm ragged
almost over the entire coast X is hoped
some lucky chance delayed the excursion
yesterday, sc they could not reach en-
barking port today.
At late hour, there was only q general
report of the disaster 10 base surnlises of
The Americans safety. The report re-
counts wide havoc. The wind was first
felt at Nogaisk. Nogaisl is composed
La IF fG1,.
water. When the hurricane had swept out
TO the rs til, a terrible scene was pre-
scented.
A iIlage Overturned.
The village was razed-ovcrturned-a
dt an immense pillow had been pushed
through it. Lying everywhere We're wo-
men and children, in the last agonies. The
ukallow water of the seas were dashed
&c such a height that It was plain that
every fishing boat must have been sunk.
The cyclone swept on to the northwest
after wrecktnS Nogaisk.
Its path seams % have been unusually
wide for at Marir'opol il devastated the
country to a point II miles inland and
Marinoroi was practically bIotted out
of existence. Not three houses in a hun
cred are left standing It is estimated S0C
persons persisted in this place alone. North
of here the cyclone male sudden turn
10 the east over Dolga Points. Its left
edge inflicted slight damage to the town
OF Berimisk. Houses were unroofed, and d
dozen persons killed by falling tinlbers.
Once at sea the storm made its full fury
Felt.
Not Il Steamer Heard From.
OF the steamers that touch at the rcSt
of Berdimisk, not one had come in at
the hour of the latest report. Grave
fears are expressed that every craft on
1.-THE sea has gone to the bottom. and that
Jevery passenger is drowned.
When the wind swept over the northern
end OF Azof, ii took, a new course, going
southerly along the coast of the land of
the Black Cossacks.
Turneisk and Achuey were ravaged,
each town being almost totally destroy
ed. Telegraph 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
on the two shores.
The storm as nearly can be learned
seemed to suddenly lose its force neal
TeFnerink, and passed off with compara-
tjSfe quiet southerly over the Black Sea.