St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-10
A FULL WEEK OVERDUE.
Seven Days Of Almost Unpree-
edented Storms on the
Atlantic.
ONE MORE HOPE IS LEFT,
That the Steamer Nay Be Out
Of Coal and Headed for
the Azores.

New YORK, Feb. 10, l a. m.-Hops
that the White Star steamer would bring
some news of La GascOgne was dashed
10 earth when the officer of the Teutonic
reported that they neither had seen nor
heard of the missing ship.
A. f. Forget, the agent of the COM
pany, and Manager William Shott made
no effort to conceal their disappoint-
ment. They had been encouraged by
the Teutonic's non-arriYal. They knew
that for at least one third the distance
the two ships went over practically the
same course; and they had assumed the
White Star ship had met the Frenchman
i'll distress. and perhaps was towing her
in.
La GaScogne left Havre on Saturday,
Jan. %. With an ordinarily speedy pas
sage she wOulG have tied up at Pier No.
fl. North river, last Sunday morning.
She is seven days over due and these
last seven days on the Atlantic have
been marked by the most violent storms,
gales and hurricanes, by snow and hail,
low temperature. and winds that shift.
ed their direction frequently, but sell
dom leSsened their speed. More than
this, La GascOgne, from all reports that
other vessels have brought inland from
the data of the weather bureau, was
Ruffeted by CycIonic Sales.
with the wind blowing at from sixty to
one hundred miles an hour almost fro III
her first day. Not one of the ships
which have put into port here or that
have touched at any foreign port has
seen La Gascogne. From Bermuda
and the Azores, from Queenstown, and
from Hayre, the story is the same.
At first the theory entertained by the
agents was that La IaScogne had be-
come temporarily disabled through a
break III the machinery and was max
ing for the Azores, or perhaps one of her
own ports. under greatly reduced speed.
Yesterday a brand new element was IT,
troduced into the mass of conjecture
and speculation concerning her move
mentS or her fate. Is La GascOgne out
of coal? Z. 3. Dunn, the signal SerYic
observer, got out all his charts last
night, looked over the storm record
that since Jan. 26, the day La Gascogne
sailed from France. there has been
succession of big storms which blew off
the Atlantic coast with terrific part
ing kick and rode out to sea with in
creased violence that became billiards
in the very path taken by the French
ships. He took his data down to No. 3
Bowling Green and discussed the me-
teOrogy of the Atlantic with Agent
Forget and Manager Shott for all hour.
The suggestion that perhaps all this
time La GaScogne had been
Fighting a Hard Fight
in the teeth of terrific gales that other
ships avoided by choosing pathway
twenty or thirty miles south, brought
some comfort 10 the French line man
ager.
Mr.. Dunn said lie was of the opinion
that La GascOgne had drawn so deeply
on her coal supply that when she finally
gave up the contest with the billiards
and headed for the Azores her speed
had to be kept down to perhaps half
dozen knots an hour.
Mr.. Forget was inclined to insist
that the ship had coal enough for any
emergency, but he was greatly in
terested in the story of the storms.
Tens ght several rumor5 were aAOat to
the effect that that La GaScOgne had
been sighted. but Investigation has, i'll
each case. proven such stories without
foundation.
At 11:50 D. m. a steamship was sighted
off Fire island, bound in. At first it was
thought that she might be the long
looked~fOr French liner, but as she pro-
ceeded without displaying any signals.
this hope fell fiat. 1t is customary with
captains of overdue steamers to display
signals continually when reaching port,
In order to relieve anxiety of relatives
and friends. Failing to display signals,
no Importance is attached to the arrival
of this steamship, unless. perhaps. she
may have some news of the French
liner. The weather is rough i'll the
outer bay tonight, and il will take from
two TO three hours for the vessel 10
reach Sandy hook.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-All afternoon
Mr.. Forget was surrounded by people
wanting news of the over due steamer.
The most 10 be pitied of the ANXIOUS
watchers is NJ. Richie. an elderly man,
who is waiting at the Hotel Martin for
the news of the ship which holds
all on earth dear to him. He rep
resents French house with phosphate
interests i'll Florida. Less than year
ago one of his four daughters died and
he was almost heart broken. Agent
Forget cabled over to Hayre and found
that the three remaining daughters all
sailed though the passenger list has
but the entry, miss Richie and maid"
Edward w. Mix, another first cabin
passenger, is one of the Paris repre-
sentatives or the Ihompson-Houston
Electric company. He is native Of
Columbus, o.
There are two Phlade lphia pasSen-
gers. Mrs. Almon +. Rockwell and 5.
A. Crozer Jr. Mrs. Rockwell is the
wife of Col. Rockwell, U. S. A. Mr..
Crozier is son-in-law OF Col. Rock
well. Mr.. Matagrin is kid glove i'm
porter and Mr.. Jacquet is n Chicago
VINE merchant. Many Of the cabin
passengers are buyers for Western
houses and are returning after their
annual winter business trip abroad.