The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-23
GUSTS OF THE GULF.
A Norwegian Bark Wrecked.
A Number Of Lives LOst-Anxisty ITO the
Safety Of the Steamer City Of
Mexico, Having on Board
General Grant and
Party.

NEw YoRk, March GA memorandum
dispatch from Washington says it is rr.
mored there that the vessel in which Gen.
Grant was passenger has been lost in the
Gull Of Mexico.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-There is ru-
NOR afoat here to-day that the steamer
City OF Mexico, on which Gen. Grant is
passenger, has been disabled, and another
that she has been lost at sea. The grounds
for these rumors seem to be that the steam.
er City OF Mexico is overdue and that she
has not yet been sighted by the pilo's.
She was due at Galveston yesterday. In
quiry at the Executive Mansion and at the
Signal Office fail to confirm the rumors.
GALVESTON, March 92.-The steamer
with Gen. Grant on board is not due here
until to-day.
ANorwegian bark is ashore OFF the coast.
CHICAGO, March o9.-The TTnies has the
following special from Galveston, Texas:
A strong gale, accompanied by rain, has
prevailed on the coast here the last eiRh-
teen hours. Shipping out on the roads Of
the harbor has, in some instances, met
serious disaster. The Norwegian ship,
Reform, loaded with thirty-six hundred
bales Of cotton for Havre, parted her ca
bles aud went to pieces; the crew, together
with fifteen staavdores and two pilots,
were lost. The u. S. revenue cutter Nc.
Lean went to her resuce, but was COM
PEELED TO return. A yawl boat from the
ship came ashore on the gulf side OF the
city tonight, but gave no tidings OF the
missing men. Her cargo was valued at
$4,000. The night Is dark, wind high
and the sea rough, with no probability Of
an abatement OF the storm at present.
Fears are entertained for the safety Of
the steamer City Of Mexico, with General
Grant and party on board. She was due
this afternoon, but thus far the pilots are
unable TO detect the steamer in sight, It
is surmised that she will change her
course TO New Orleans, as the gale Is from
the northeast, and it is impossible to enter
this port during the present high wind. II
it Is possible for her to leave her anchor
age the United States cutter Mclean will
90 out on cruise tomorrow morning in
search OF the Mexico and the coast bark
Reform.
Gen. Ord and staff arrived on special
train from San Antonio to meet General
Grant.
GALVESTON, March 22-Midnisht.-
Nothing has been heard from the steamer
City Of Mexico. The agent of the Alex
andre Line, to which she belongs, who ar
rived from New Orleans Sunday, says he
thinks the captain did not put to sea from
Tampioca Saturday, owing to the rough
weather. He looks for her tomorrow.
The Sun says: ]. ]. Harry, Agent of the
Alexandra Line, stated to-day that the
steamer City OF Mexico, with Gen. Grant
on board, is not due at Galveston until to.
morrow, and even II she should not be
heard from in three or four days,
says he would have no fears, because shs
may have been dalayed, as she has been
before. Only few months ago the City
Of Mexico was delayed several days.
She is an able vessel and has passed
through heavier gales than the one that
has Just prevailed on that coast perhaps.
She did not sail from Vera Cruz on the
18th, and, even il she did, she may have
been delayed at Tuxpan and Tampico.