The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-08
LA GAsCoGNE STILL MISSING.
No News from the Big French Ship
and Her 3Y2 PeODIe.

and Her 372 People.
NEW YORK, Feb. There was no sight
or sign to-day of the missing La Gascogne,
no intimation of her whereabouts or of the
mishap that may have befallen her. From
those who report all vessels inward bound
came the same answer: mo news to the
oft repeated query: "Is the La Gascogne
sighted yet?'' And with the big French
liner five days over due and no word of her
or of the 372 souls aboard, the anxiety has
grown to suspense. Some hope was found
In the theory that the White line steamship
Teutonic, now two days over due from
Liverpool. is standing by to aid the missing
vessel. OF all the trips that the
Star feet has made across the
transatlantic track, none has been so slow
as this. The Teutonic has heretofore always
arrived about on time. With squalls of
Snow filling the air off the coast tonight,
it would have been quite possible for either
the Gascogne or the Teutonic to come up
to the bar and anchor without the opera
tor at either Fire Island or Sandy Hook
sighting them. And with the snow and drift
of ice in the lower bay and all the electric
buoys torn from their moorings, it is GER
tain that no pilot would be daring enough
to run either craft UP to quarantine in the
night.
A dispatch from quarantine says: At
o'clock tonight a severe northeast gale set
in, accompanied with snow and sleet,
which, up to midnight, has increased in
force, and is now blowing a regular hurri-
cane, blowing through the Narrows at the
rate, rare OF hfty-fiye miles an mo hour. with no
upper bay and Narrows extends from shore
to shore, solidly packed
dispatch from Sandy Hook says: The
weather to-day has been very changeable-
from light breezeS and partly cloudy to
few snow squalls-and it has tonight de-
veloped into a regular blizzard The wind
comes bowling from the northeast at the
rate of forty-four miles hour. The
snow, which it drives ahead, cuts the faces
and chills to the bone the life-saving pa
trolmen, whom no wind or weather detainS
In the station house at night. They have
to be ON the lookout for, any vessel that
storm. It is expected, however, that all
craft will keep off shore as long as this
state of affairs lasts, the electric buoys
in Gedney channel are extinguished by the
ice, and, therefore, unable to show the lane
across the bar. The electric buoy at the
this valuable guide at the turning point
Is greatly missed by incoming steamers.
The lights. on shore cannot be seen at a
distance of a quarter of mile, and the
vessels would find no harbor inside the
Hook on account of the ice, which is
packed away across to the Jersey shore.
The Cephnlonia Safe.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. THE Cunard
steamer Cephalonia, Captain Secombe, from
Boston, Jan. 26. for Liverpool, which was
considerably overdue at this port,
arrived safely to-day. She reports
that she encountered terrible east
erly and westerly gales, and for
part of the passage tremendous head seas
Great quantities of water came aboard and
one sea smashed part of the port rail-
When the steamer arrived here her coal
bunkers were almost empty, and she was
compelled to take aboard about seventy
tons of coal to enable her to proceed to
Liverpool. Some of the Cephalonia's pas
sengers report that about midnight on
Jan. 81 they saw vessel on which tar
barrel was being burned, and a horn sound
ed, evidently signals of distress. The yes
sci, however, quickly vanished and was
not afterwards seen. Throughout the en-
tire voyage the Cephalonia's passengers
were only allowed on deck two days.
Sailors Frozen StiH:
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Feb. An
unknown schooner, encased in ice with
three of the crew frozen to the roof of her
cabin, came ashore on the north coast of
Marthas Vineyard to-day. She was at once
boarded by the life savers. who found her
to be the T. B. Dickson of New York
thence for ROckland, Me- The bodies We're