Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1894 — A TERRIBLE TORNADO. [ARTICLE]

A TERRIBLE TORNADO.

‘One Thousand People Drowned In the Sea ot Axov. A St. Petersburg cable to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Aug. 27, says: ’ A wind of death. No other name can describe the cyclone that swept across the Sea of Azov, yesterday. It will be imnossible for bays yet to compute the damage done, but it Is almost certain that at least one thousand persons have perished, borne 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 American tourists were on the Sea of Azov at the time. All the afternoon there lias been a constant stream of callers at the office of the American minister, asking, almost begging for news from Odessa, whence the tourists were to have started on the regulation sight-seeing trip across the Crimea, visiting Seimstnpul, Balaklava. and the other famous battle scenes. The •parties were separate, hut it is probable they started within twelve hours of each other, and, according to the schedule of these excursions, they would have reached the Strait of Kertsch yesterday morning, thence to go by steamboat north to Beriliausk. where they wool i take the train pack to Odessa. "Everybody is praying that some lucky chance delayed the ex cursionists. so that they could not reach their embarking port today. At a late hour there was still only general report of the disaster on which to base surmises of the American’s safety. This report recounts wide havoc.