New-York tribune., 1895-02-15
THREE VESSELS MISSING.
NO WORD FROM THE STEAMER CITY OF
ST. AUGUSTINE.
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT OF THE MAVERICK TO
FIND THE BIG BARGE-THE rIIoT BOAT
RICHARD X. FOX COMING HoME-THE

UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT OF THE MAVERICK TO
FIND THE BIG BARGE-THE PILOT BOAT
RICHARD X FoX COMING HoME-THE
STEAMER SALISBURY OVERDUE.
The steamer city OF st. Augustine is still missing.
She s now twelve days out from Jacksonville. and
no word has been received from her since Febru-
ary s. On that date the clyde Line steamer Semi
role sighted her five miles north OF Hatteras. The
same day she was sighted the same place by
the schooner Ida Lewis. The storm had not be-
gun to rage then. and the steamer was making
her way south at her usual speed. Warren Ray.
her agent and part owner said yesterday that
he still thought the City OF st. Augustine would
arrive here all right
The steamer Maverick came In yesterday after an
unsuccessful search for the missing Standard Oil
barge No 5s. The Maverick left this port on Tues
day. and 30 miles to the eastward from Sandy
Hook Then she l25 miles southwest. and then
10 miles Then she up the coast 10 Sandy
Hook She saw nothing OF the missing barge. AS
she he's coaled up the Maverick Will start
on another search. Two tugs still out looking
for the barge. On her cruise in search of the barge
the Maverick sighted Tie four-masted schooner
Horace W. Macomber. from Newport News for Bos-
ton out OF water and supplied her:
when B. $. Nicoay. the last of her pilots to leave
her came in on the tank steamer Chester. He said
that he % M snay ne Sk on ON Soa1a Ws and
the the boat started at once FOR this port 70 take her
pilots on board again. She was c. nsderab!y ICED
up forward bit had not otherwise suffered from the
storm
The work OF repairing the machinery Of La Gas
ccgne was being rushed yesterday. Chief Engineer
Martin said that she would be ready TO sail next
Wednesday
Considerable anxiety prevails In shipping circles
concerning the British steamer Salisbury. which
left Gibraltar on January II bound for this port.
The steamer Pontiac. OF Phelps Brothers Mediter-
line. which left Gibraltar two hours before
the salisbury arrived mere on reprua5y & ann nes b
day after leaving tiibraltar the salisbury passed
val TO learn that she had not been heard OF. and
begins now TO fear that She has met serious
accident
manded by Captain Charles Holdorf. She carries
cargo OF fruit and is undetstood 70 be consignsd
was built in ISIS at Newcastle-on- Tyne. is I2l2
tons burden, PSI feet long. 80 feet wide. and 26s
feet deep. She Is owned by q. cleugh * Co. OF
Among tho crew OF the wrecked French bark
Jean Bapiis,c. which the tmbria brought In here
years Old, ard was quartrrmaster on the lost bark
Thomas has been shipwrecked seven times In the
compelled TO swim ashore and twice he had been
brought by rescung vessel to this port. He has "A
brother living here and the last time he was
brought here he tried 10 find him, but was unsuc-
ce-sful. When La Gascogne arrived at her pier
Tuesday Thomas. Ike most Frenchmen In the
city went to see her come In. In the crowd on the
pier he ran across his brother. whom he then saw
FOR the first time In fourteen years
The bay freer from Ice yesterday than II has
hood tide backed up the ice brought down by the
rivers the Upper Bay still had an arctic appearance
Bay The ice IL packed I'm closely around them. and
found Impossible for tugs TO get TO them yes
The weather yesterday mild for this season
Of the year, and appeared almost balmy when one
remembered the recent cold and storms. The local
forecast for to-day was for fair and somewhat colder
weather