St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-11
DIDN'T SIGHT GAsC0GNE.
The Great Vessel Looked as
Though Glistening With
Diamonds.
A CREW is PICKED UP
It Was From the French Bark
Baptiste---Capt. Dut-
ton Talks.

SANDY HOOK, Feb. II, $40 a. M
The La Normandie is anchofeo
outside the bay. She was boarded
by representatives of the Associated
Press. and reports no news of La
Gascogne.
NEW YORK, Feb. IL, a. MAT
1880 a. m. French line steamer
anchored off Sandy Hook, and 1t is
believed that she is La Normandie,
a. sister ship of La Gascogne. La
Normandie sailed from HaVre Feb.
2. and. coming over the same course
as the Gascogne, it was conhdently
expected that she would have tldlngs
of the other. No signals to that ell
feet. however, were displayed, and
now the officials of the line fix their
hope on La Touraine, which sailed
for HaVre Wednesday last, with in
structions to keep the strictest out
look for La Gascogne, and, II neces-
sary, to spend extra time in making
a detour from the regular course.
Just what news the Danla or La
Normandie may bring is doubtful,
but they have given no indication up
to the present time of having spoken
the missing ship.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-The Cum
arder Umbria, Capt Dutton, which
sailed from Liverpool Feb. 2, via
Queenstown on the Sd, reached Quar-
antine at 1:42 this morning. She
brings no word of La Gascogne.
Shortly after noon yesterday the
monster ocean greyhound steamer
passed quarantine, her shrouds ana
part of her hull encased in ice and
glistening like myriadS OF diamonds.
Icicles hung from her ShroudS both
fore and aft. From the topmost edge
of the bridge to the deck was one
mass of glittering ice, and the life
boats, davits and taffrails were eov-
cred with it. 1t was during the only
spell of good weather on the VeSsels S
voyage that she was enabled to res
cue fourteen persons who were adrift
in a waterlogged, helpless bark.
Speaking of the rescue, Capt. Dutton
said
1--WE had a faily good voyage after
leaving Queenstown until we struck
the blizzard outside the Hook yes
terday. Of course the weather was
bad, and we had heavy seas, but
have had far worse voyages. 1t was
at 12:14 a. m. on Feb. that we
picked up the captain and crew of.
the French bark Jean Baptiste. 1t
was about II o'clock at night when
report was made to me that White
Star line freighter, supposed to be
the Civic. had been sighted. The
captain of the Civic is an old friend
of mine, and l had signals sent up
to let him know who we were. The
Civic was off our port side. The
SIGNALS WERE SENT UP
and seen by the French bark, which
was over on our starboard side about
five miles away 1t was not particu-
larly cold, but there was a snow
storm and heavy westerly swell
The distressed crew was displaying
red lights to show that the vessel
was out of control. and, as we made
toward her. three men went up into
the miZzen rigging with torches.
L
with five men in command of Second
Officer Hogg was lowered. When our
boat reached the distressed vessel
the men found that the crew had
launched two boats and were load
ing all of their effects. Capt. Lebot
and his son were the last to leave
the Jean Baptiste. They came away
in our boat The rest Of the crew
came to us in their boats, and said
they had brought all their personal
effects with them
The Jean Baptiste belonged at.
Havre, and was, from Halifax to
Cork, laden with deals. Capt. Lebet.
said he was the sole owner of the
bark, and that she was not insured.
None Of the crew can speak English,
and they will be cared for by the
French consul in this city. Capt
Dutton describes the rest Of the
voyage as follows: :.
after making the addition to our
passenger list by taking on the
Frenchmen, our voyage was without
particular incident until we encoun-.
tered the ).
ROUGH BLIZZARD
and heavy seas outside the Hook
yesterday afternoon. At 5 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, during the
height of the storm, and, passing the
Georgia shoals, 200 miles east of
Sandy Hook. we sighted four
masted schooner at anchor, riding
very heavily. She had a flag up and
no sail set The matter was re-
ported to me, but by that time we
had lost sight of her through the
snow and haze. I had the vessel put
about and ran down close to her.
She had nothing flying then. There
were men on deck, and steam
escaping from donkey engine for
ward. We laid to half an hour,
waiting for some signal, but got
none. 1t was showing, the weather
was cold and the sea too heavy to
run the risk of lowering boat to
merely make an investigation when