Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — WINDS ARE WROTH. [ARTICLE]

WINDS ARE WROTH.

They Spring Up from the Sea and Wipe Out Russian Towns. It was a wind of death. No other name can describe the cyclon; that swept across the Sea of Azov Saturday. It will be impossible for days yet, says a St. t etersburg dispatch, to compute the damage done, bnt it is a’most certain that at least 1,000 persons have perished, some by drowning, others by being crushed under falling hou es and trees. The excitement is areat among the American colony in this city, for it is feared that at iea ttwo parties of American tourists weie on the S9h of Azov at the time the wind did its deadly work. The wind was first felt at Nogaisk. Nogaisk is peopled mostly by fisherman, who were out on the’ water. When the hurricane had swept out to the north a terrible scene was presented. The village was razed, overturned—as if an immeno plow had been pushed through it. Lying everywhere were woman and children, dead or in the last agonies. The shallow waters of the Sea of Azov were lashed to such a height that it was plain that every tishing-boat must have been sunk. The cyclone swept on to the northeast after wrecking Nogaisk. It path seetns to have been unusually wide, for at Marinopol it devastated the country to a point eleven miles in’and, and had its outer edge far u on the sea. Marinopol was practically blotted out of existence, Not three houses in a hundred are left standing. z