Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-05-04
WRECKED ON THE SEA,
Another Victim to Old Oceans Ap-
petite---Probable Loss Of the
State of Florida.
A Rumor That Dynamite Caused the
Awful Accident Which Cost
Six Score Lives.
The Feeling in New York and Lon
don Concerning the Now
Long Overdue Steamer.

New YoRK, May 3.-The anxiety about
the steamer State Of Florida, now twelve
days overdue from this point to Glasgow,
was increased this morning by the receipt
of a cablegram from Bristol, announcing
that the steamer Devon, from New York
April Is, had arrived there with the crew
and passengers of the Florida, and that
they had been picked up in two boats, in
mid ocean. The Offices of the State Line
steamers here were thronged at an
early hour to-day by the relatives and
friends of the passengers on the lost vessel
The dispatch gave no details, but later dis
patch received caused deep gloom to settle
over all, as it announced that the two boats
belonging to the State Of Florida, which had
been picked up by the Devon, were empty.
Still the agents here have not given up hope,
and state that the boats may have been
washed away during severe storm, and that
it only tends to confirm their theory that the
State of Florida had lost her propeller and
was proceeding under sail. Mr., Baldwin, OF
the fine, saws the steamer is amply pro-
visioned for long voyage. Austin, Baldwin
& Co, the agents Of the State Line of steam
ships, this morning received dispatch from
GLASGOW as follows: THE steamer Devon,
from New York for Bristol, picked up on
Aprl 9th two life boats Of the State Of
Florida without occupants or gear. A sail
ing vessel bound west signalled the steamer
CITY of Rome on April 23d, in latitude 46', !,
longitude 42o, that she had the shipwrecked
crew of a State line steamer on board.
The CITY of Rome arrived at Liverpool on
April q, from New York. The State OF
Florida was of 1000 tons, and was built at
Glasgow in 1879.
Another London dispatch says: The
CITY of Rome has arrived at Liverpool and
reports having passed a sailing vessel on
April 23d, in latitude 460 and longitude Az
which signalled the words 'shipwrecked
crew State - When the signals were
ost and the vessel passed on" The police
profess to have positive information that a
number of dynamiters were aboard the yes
sci and that they carried concealed in their
luggage large quantity of dynamite
Several prominent officers of the detective
department do not hesitate to express the
opinion that the vessel has been lost and
that the disaster was caused by tho acci-
dental explosion of the dynamite which was
hidden away in the luggage of the dyna-
miterS.
Still another dispatch says: The city of
Rome makes the following statements in re.
gard to the signals of the sailing vessel
spoken April 23 The first signal was
''Ship-wrecked crew" Then followed two
other signals, thc first supposed to be
"State," and presumed to refer to the State
Florida.
On board the State of Florida were 81
cabin passengers so steerage and so Off
GERS and crew. The following are the Off
GERS of the vessel as far as knowns Captain,
J. W. Sadler; first officer, Mr.. Mann; purser
Mr.. Genskanil; surgeon, DIR. Steele.