Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-26
A MYSTERY OF THE OCEAN
Has the Conserva Gone to the
 Bottom
STORIES OF STORMS AT SEA.

No Light Yet Thrown on the Ghastly
 rado-Fcars for the Safety of Many
 Vessels.
 NEW YoRE, March 26.-An impenetrable mystery still envelops the story of the life raft which sighted by the Colorado, of the Mallory line, on Saturday last, and from which the two dead men were taken who were afterwards buried at sea. All day yes terday vessels returning from the south brought in tales of heavy storms and angry seas, while many of them had plowed their way through wreckage. The theory which was at first advanced, that the raft had hoated from the steamer Conserva, was pretty generally secuted later on.
 A telegram was received at the Maritime Exchange from Boston during the morning stating that the steamer Gate City, from Savannah March 23, at ll:SO a. m- had A-hted in lat. ss.ll, long, 76so, metallic ifeboat and a lap-streak boat, the latter painted white. On the former some letters were discernibe which looked like Con.
 1.-The Conserva carried no metallic life boat, and on none of her life rafts was her name painted, as far as know," said Henry R. kunhardt, who fitted out the Conserva, on being shown the Boston dispatch yester- day. "At the time in question the vessel should have been far below Charleston-for mind you, the wind was with her all the time-and I don't see how she could have drifted up into the locality where this craft was found. She is due in Samana Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, and if she Is on time we shall hear from her about Friday. She has twenty-four souls on board, among them my cousin, Carl Kunhardt; but l haven't the slightest anxiety about their safety or that of the ship"
 When the G. B. Lockhart arrived from San Domingo Capt. Olsen reported that March 19, while in lat. 36 45 west, long, 73 O1 north, he had sighted the British steamship Yermandale, of Scarboro, flying signals of distress, declaring that her machinery was disabled and that her sails had been blown away. She had hoisted her signals, however, only in order that her condition might be re- ported to Lloyds.
 The Annie R. Kemp, of Provincetown, from Baracoa, in lat 37. 10, long. 72. 46 dead reckoning), also sighted the vessel and put about to her assistance, but was blown away At night heavy storm set in, and the chances that the Yermandale, in her dis abled condition, weathered it are slight.
 auutu eNluenCe Ol u1SaSCer was brought Ill during the day by the British steamship Honda, from Greytown, which was only con- frmed by the City of Alexandria. The Hon. das log reports stormy weather March 22 and while off Carisfort reef passed a quantity of wreckage, consisting mainly of hatch combings. The City of Alexandria had fine weather all along and on the same day, while ten miles off Toweys lighthouse, passed the poop deck of a vessel with the water ways of the skylight painted white and the scuppers blue, and one after companionway, with the hatch painted white and the top blue The colors, blue and white, correspond to the decorations of the Conserva, but the wreck age could not belong to her, as her material is iron and would have sunk
 The various rlaces on the ocean in which the wreckage has been seen and the various vessels sighted that may have furnished it preclude the idea that only single vessel has met with accident. If the Conserya has fouudered so has certainly one other ship