The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-03-24
THE NARONIC LOST
All Doubts as to Her Fate Are Now
Dispelled.
DIASTER 0FPNEWF0UNDLAND
Life Boats Of the Missing Vessel Found-An Inoom.
ing Vessel, However, is believed to Have Sc
cured Portion Of her Passengers,

BREMEN. March 21.-After long con.
tinued anxiety regarding the fate of
the White Star line freight steamer
Naronic, which sailed from liverpool
February II for New York, and which
had not since been heard of. intelli.
gence has been received showing be-
yond doubt that the vessel is lost
The British steamer Coventry. Capt
Wilson, from Fernandina, February 10,
arrived at this port Monday. She re-
ports that at 2 o'clock in the morning
of March 4, when in lat AZ deg. N,
long. 46 deg. W., she passed iifeboat
painted white bearing the name Ma
ronic. The boat was floating keel up
ward.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the
same day another life boat of the Ma
ronic was passed. This boat gave evil
dence of having encountered heavy
weather. The mast and oars of the
life boat had been dashed together and
attached to the painter and then thrown
overheard as a sea anchor to keep the
boats head up TO the wind and sea.
Judging from appearances neither of
the boats had been long adrift. The
position of the drifting boats was about
south by west of Sable island on the
banks of New Foundland. There is a
chance that the occupants of the boats
were picked up by passing vessel.
LIVERPOOL, March 81. Officials of the
White Star Line Co. here have received
the full report of the steamer Coventry,
which arrived at Bremen Monday.
They state their advices show that the
last lifeboat of the Naronic passed by
the Coventry was recently occupied by
a portion of the Naronics crew, and
they expressed the hope that the occu-
pants had been picked up by passing
vessel They also expressed the hope
that the occupants of the other boats
had been rescued
All doubts as TO the fate of the
Naronic has been dispelled by the sight
ing of her life boats. That she is now
at the bottom of the ocean can not be
disputed, but the cause of the disaster
is, of course still a matter of conjec-
ture. 1t may be, judging from the lat
itude and longitude in which the boats
were seen, that the steamer struck
either a derelict or an iceberg, though
it is still rather early in the season for
ice to be adrift SO far south as the
banks 1t is hoped that the mystery of
the less of the steamer will soon be
cleared up by the landing at some port
of members of her crew. A vessel
which passed Deal Monday signaled
that she had on board eleven ship
wrecked people, and the White Star
officials say there is strong probable
ity that they are part of the crew of
the Naronic
The arrival of this vessel is eagerly
awaited, as should the shipwrecked per-
sons on board be from the Naronic, all
conjectures as to the causes that led
to the laundering of the steamer will
be removed
The list of the officers of the Naronic
is as follows: Captain, William Roberts;
chief officer, G. Wright; chief engineer,
crew numbered including the officers,
ffty-fve men. The only other persons
on board, it is said, were fourteen cat
tie men connected with Eastmen's cat
tie yard, at Sixty-ninth street, this city
who had gone over to the other side on
the Naronic in charge of cattle and
were returning on the same vessel
Their names are: Tim Corners, p Nc.
Etee, Jas. Shannon, JAS Kane, H.
LarlSin, P. Smith John Watson, Will
Shaffer, James O'Hara, T. Burke, Hen
ry Beney. j. Stafford, Vim. Tobin and
William Magee.