Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-27
TERRIBLE TEMPEST
Southern Russia Swept by q
Furious Cyclone.
oNETHoUsAHDbIvEs THE HARVEST

OF Wind That Devastates the Sea q
AEov-TwO Parties of American Tour
lists In the Track Of the Destroyer, Un-
less They Were Fortunately Delayed
Towns Wiped Out Along the Path Of
Destruction and Little If Any Hope for
People at Sea
ST. LOUIS Aug. IA specia! cablegram
TO The Globe Democrat from St. Peters
burg says: A wind of death. No other
name can describe the cyclone that swept
across the sea of Azov Saturday. 1t will
be impossible for days yet to compute the
damage done. but it is almost certain that
at least 1000 persons have perished-some
by drowning, others by being crushed I'M
der falling houses and trees. The excite
ment is great among the American colony
in this city, for it is feared that at least
two parties of American tourists were on
the sea of Azov at the time the wind did
its deadly work. There has been a stream
Of callers at the loffice 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, visit
ing Sebastopol, Balaklava, and other ia
nous battle scenes.
Only Delay Could Save Them.
The parties We're separate but it is pro b.
able that they started within twelve hours
of each other, and according to the sched-
ule of these excursions they would have
reached the straits of Kertch Saturday
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 a short distance north from Tam
rink into the land of the black COssacks.
If his party branched of in that way they
| have Hnquestionably persisted, for the hur-
cane rRvaged almost 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 embarking port. A. late
hour :here was still only general report
| of the disaster on which to base surmi SEES
III the Americans safety. The report re-
| cunts wide havoc.
Frigh:ful Havoc Mt NOgaisk.
The wind was first fels at Nogaisk. No.
Gaisk is populated mostly by fishermen,
| who were out on the water. When the
| hurricane had swept out to the north q
terrible scene was presented. The village
| was Observation-Disclosures if al. immense
| pillow had been pushed through 1t. Lying
| everywhere were women and children
| dead or in the last agonies. The shallow
| waters of the sea of AZov Were dashed Il
| such height that it was plain that every
fishing boat must have been sunk. The
| cyclone swept on TO the northeast aftel
wrecking Nogaisk. Its path seems Il
| have been unusually wide, for at Marine
l fafa ha try ~ "a in
eleven miles inland and had its outer edg,
far out upon the sea. Marinopol wa
practically blotted out of existence. No
! three houses in TO IRE left standing.
Every Craft Gone to the Bottom.
| 1t is estimated that over 200 persons
persisted in this town alone. North o
Marinopol the storm seems to have mad
! n sudden turn to the eastward over Dolg,
Points, its left edge inflicting slight dam
age to the town of Pardnimsk. House
there were unroofed and a dozen persons
were killed by falling timbers. Once a
sea the storm made its full fury felt
OF the steamers that touch at the port o
Bariiansk not one had come in at tn
hour of the late report. Grave fears ar
expressed that every craft in the sea ha
gone to the bottom and that every passen
ger is drowned.
Two Other Towns Eavaged.
When the wind swept over the norther
end of AZov it took n new course, goin
southerly along the coast of the land of tn
Black Cossacks. In turn Fisk and Achue
were ravaged, each town being almos
totally destroyed. Telegraphic communi
cation with this district is suspended, an,
it is impossible to learn the extent of tn
destruction, but at least 900 persons mus
have died on the two shores. The storm
as nearly as can now be learned SCENE
to suddenly lose its force near Tamrin
and passed off with comparative quie
southerly over the Black sea.