The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-27
SCENES OF DEATH
Disasters Along the Sea
of AZOf.
ONE THOUSAND PERISHED.
Fury of the Storm on the Water
and on Land.
ONE THOUSAND PERISHED
FEARS FOR AMERICAN TOURISTS
Many Fishing Boats and Steam ers
Lost and Several Villages
Swept Away.

ST. LOUIS. Aug pa special cablegram
to the Giobe-Democrat from ST Peters
burg says: A wind of death that words
cannot describe was the wind that swept
across the sea of Azof yesterday. 1t is i'm
possible for days yet to compute the dam
age done, but it Is almost certain that 1000
have peFished, some by drowning, others
by being crushed under falling houses.
The excitement is great among the
American colony in this city, for ii is
feared that at least two parties of Ameri-
can tourists were on the Sea of AzOf at the
time the wind did its deathly work.
All the afternoon there has a been a
string of callers at the American ministry
asking. almost begging. for news from
Odessa. whence the tourists wets to have
started on the regulation sig seing trip
across the Crimea. visitiDc ,ebastopol,
Balaklava and the other famous battle
scenes. The parties were separate. but il.
is probable they started within twelve
hours of each other, and according 10 the
schedule of these excursions they would
have reached the Strait of Kertch yester-
day morning, going thence by steamboat
north to Berdiansk, where they would take
a train back to Odessa. 1t is said the
leader Of one of these parties had proposed
a trip a short distance north from Temrink
into the Lake of the Black COssacks. II
his party branched off into that way they
have unquestionably perished. for the
storm ragged along alm Ost the entire east
coast of the lake. 1t is hoped that some
lucky chance delayed the excursion yester-
day so they cOuld not reach their embark
ing point until to-day.
At late hour there was only general
report of tie disaster to base surmises OF
the Americans safety on. The report re-
counts wide havoc. The wind was first
felt at Nogaisk. Nogaisk is peopled most
ly by fishermen, who were out On the
water. When the hurricane had swept out
to the north a terrible scene was present
ed. The village was raZed-ovsrturned-
as if an immense plow had been pushed
through it. Lying everywhere were
women and children dead, or IN the last
agonies. The shallow waters of the Sea
of Azof were dashed to such height that it
was plain that every fishing boat must
have been sunk. The cyclone swept on to
the northward after wreeking Nogaisk.
Its path seems 10 have been unusually
wide. for at Marinopol it devastated the
and had its outer edge far upon the sea.
MarinOpOl was practically bOIted out of
existence. Not three houses in hund red
are left standing. 1t is estimated that 800
persons perished in this place alone.
North of here the cyclone made sudden
turn to the east, over DoIga Points. Its
left edge inflicted slight damage TO the
town of Berdiansk. Houses were unroofed
and dozen persons killed by falling tim
bers. Once at sea the storm made its full
fury felt
OF the steamers that touch at the port
of Berdansk 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 pas
senger is drowned.
When the wind swept over the northern
end of Azof it took a new course, going
southerly along the coast of the Black
COSsacks. Turueisk and Achuev were
ravaged, each town being almost totally
destroyed.
Telegraph communication with this dis
trict 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 as can now be
learned, seemed to suddenly lose its force
near Temerink. and passed off with COM
parative quiet southernIy over the Black