The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-01
The Inland Sea Swept by an Aw-
full Hurricane.
TOWNS AND PEOPLE Persisted
1t Is Impossible to Compute the Dam
age Done, but it Is Certain That
Many Lost Their Lives.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. pa special
cablegram to the Globe-Denocrat from
st. Petersburg says; "A wind of death"
no other words can describe the cy-
clone that swept across the sea of Aznf
yesterday. 1t would be impossible for
days We: to compute the damage done,
but it is almost certain that hundreds
persisted, some 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 Amer.
lean tourists were on the sea of Azof at
the time the wind did its deadly work.
All afternoon there has been string
of tourists at the American ministry,
asking, almost begging for news from
Odessa, whence the tourists were
to have started on the regulation sight
seeing trip across Crimea, visiting Sc
bastapOol, Balak lava, and other famous
battle scenes. The parties were separ-
ate, but it is probable that they started
within - hours Of each other. and
according TO the schedule of these ex-
cursions, they would have reached the
strait OF Kerch yesterday morning,
going thence by steamboat north To
Berdiansk, where they would take the
tram back to Odessa.
1t is said the leader of one OF these
parties had proposed a trip ashore
distance north from Temrink into the
Lake of Black Copacks. II his par
~ branched off into that way they
nave occasionally persisted. for the
storm ragged almost over the entire
coast 1t is hoped that some lucky
chance delayed the excursion yester-
day, so they could not reach their en-
baking point today. Az late hour
there was only the general report of
the disaster on which 10 base surmises
OF The Americans safety.
Whole Villages Raced.
The report recounts wide havoc.
The wind was first felt at Nogaisk.
Noeaisk's population is composed
mostly of fishermen who were out on
the water. When the hurricane had
swept out to the north terrible scene
was presented. The village was RACED
--Overlurned-as if an immense pillow
had ueen pushed through il. Lying
everywhere were women and children
in the last agonies. The shallow waters
of the seas were dashed to such a height
that 1t was plain that every fishing
boat must have been sunk. The
cyclone swept on to the northwest.
after wreckIng Nogalsk. Its path
seems to have been unusually wide, for
at MaronOpOl it devastated the country
to point eleven miles inland.
MarlnOp0l Is practically blotted out
OF existence. Not three houses ia 100
are left standing. 1t is estimated that
300 people perlshed in this place alone.
North of here the cyclone made "a sud
den turn east over Volga points. Its
left edge inflicted slight damage to the
town of B4rdim SIX. Houses were un-
rooted and dozen persons killed Nv
falling limbers.
Terrible Work at Sea.
Once at sea The storm made its full
fury felt. OF the steamers that ton ch
tile port OF Berdimisk not one had
come III at the hour of the latest report
Grave fears are expressed that every
craft on the sea has gone To the bottom
aud that every passenger is drowned
When the wind swept over the
northern end of Azof it took a new
course, going southerly along the coast
of Black COssacks. 1urneisk and
Achuev were ravaged, each town being
almost totally destroyed. Telegraph
communication with this district u
suspended and it is impossible to learn
the extent of destruction, but at least
1000 persons must have died on the
two shores. The storm, as nearly as
can now be learned seemed to sud
denly lose its force near Temerink, and
passed tfwith comparative quiet south
erly over the Black seq.