The herald., 1895-02-10
HOPE WANING
Nc News of the Overdue French
Liner La Gaseogne
GREAT STORMS OUT AT SEA
The Passenger Ship Now Fourteen Days
Out From Havre, France
All Sorts of Theories to Account for the De-
All Sorts of Theories to Account for the De-
lay Urged by the Agents-Opinions
of Shipping Men.

New York, Feb. 10.-1 a. m.-Hopes
that the White Star steamer Teutonic
would bring some news of La Gascogne
were dashed to the earth when the officers
of the Teutonic reported they neither
saw nor heard of the missing ship.
La Gascogne left Havre on Saturday
January 26th. With an ordinary speed
passage she should have tied up at Pier
No 4, North River last Saturday morn
ing. She is seven days overdue, and the
last seven days on the Atlantic have
been marked by the most violent
storms, gales and hurricanes, by
snow and hail, low temperat' tre
and winds that shifted their direction. ire
quently, but seldom lessened their. Jury.
More than this, La Gascogne, FROM III re-
ports that other vessels have h.rought in
and from the data of the weat' .r.r bureau,
was buifeted by cyclonic ga a. $. with the
wind blowing at from 60 to 100 miles an
hour, almost from the fir s.. day out.
None OF the ships tha& have put into
port here or that haze touched at any
foreign port has seer, La Gascogne. From
Bermuda and the cores, from Queens
town and from. Havre, the story is
the same AT first the theory enter
tanned by tho agents was that La Gas.
cogne had been temporarily disabled
through 'yeak in the machinery and
was max .rg for the Azores or perhaps
some o.. her own ports under greatly re
duced speed.
Yesterday brand new element was
lht T,duced into the mass of conjecturet
a'As. speculation concerning her move
| .r.ents or her fate. La Gascogne is out O
{ coal. The suggestion that perhaps al
this time La Gascogne had been fighting
a hard fight in the teeth of terrible gales
that other ships avoided by choosing
path 20 or 30 miles south, brought
some comfort to the French line mana
gers. E. B. Dunn, signal officer, said h,
was of the opinion that she had drawn SC
deeply on her coal supply that when she
finally gave up the contest with the biz
zard and headed for the Azores, lhel
speed had to be kept down to pcrhap.
half a dozen knots an hour.
Mr.. Forget was inclined to insist thai
the ship had coal enough for any emcr
gency but he was greatly interested il
the story of the storm.
Tonight several rumors were afloat t.
the effect that La Gascogne had beer
sighted but investigation has eacl
case proven such stories were withou
foundation.
AT ll:5O p. m. steamship was sighted
off Fire Island, bound in. At first it wa.
thought this might be the long-looked fol
French liner, but as she proceeded with
outalisplaying any signals, the Thought
fell fiat. 1t is customary with captains Of
overdue steamers to display signals con.
tinually, when near port, in order to re.
ieve anxiety of relatives and friends.
The weather is rough in the outer bay
tonight, and it will take from two to
three hours for the vessel to reach Sandy
Hook.
2a.m.-At this hour no news has been
received of La Gascogne or Rhynland
Bermuda, Feb. 9.-It has been thought
here that he La Gascognc might have
been driven this way after break down
has been kept for any tidings Of the
steamer. Up to this evening, how
ever, nothing has been seen of her and
all vessels arriving reported the same.
Arrivals here encountered very bad
| weather at sea-