Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
SAD SEA TALES.
No News of La GaScOgne Yet
 Received.
HER SISTER SHIP ARRIVES

41L4N k4O ! 444N e~AA&A LALN@t% A''St La NOrmandic Had N" News of the Missing steamer.
 There Is Stiu Hope In Shipping Circles
 That the French Liner May still Bc Afoat An Incumtirned Rumor From Halifax Two Men Rescued From the Long Island Wreck After Being I4,shcd In the Shrouds for Forty Hours state
 ments From IIbc Surviv"rs-G Gloucester
 Fishing Boat Lost With All Hands.
 RhynIand and Tmhria Come In Ancr 2 Rough Trip.
 NEW YoEK, Fch. lI.-Thv French lina | steamship "a Gascogno, far as all sources of Information go th's morning. has failed to reach harbor The threu steamers which arrived at this port sun day had seen or heard nothing ut her But l tho fact that vessels not nearly so stanch as the Frcnch liner have wcathercd the | gales that have swept the Atla tic for thu | past wcok or moro has gwen heart and hope to those who can view tho chances of tho big steamer from an impartial stand | point
 At l@ 20 O clock this morning French | line steamer anchored off sandy Hook and 1 proved to ho l n \ormandie a sister ship 1 of Ia GaScoEne Ia Normandic sailed ! from Havro on leh ,, and coming over | the same CourSr AS Ia GasVOgno. il Was confidently e> pccted that she would have ! tidings ot the other
 \ ,f | N, mandic and hailed her with tho question
 " Have you heard of n GaSCogno. No, not n word, Was tho disappuint- Ing answcr that came hack
 Now the officials of Ihr limo lack their hope in n Tourano which sailed fo, Havro on Wednesday last. with instruC- ,.Ons to keep the strictest outlook for La GascnGuc. and if necessary to spend extra l time in making a detour from tho regular course.
 La Gascogno i> now eight days overdue She has facc'! many a furious galc in tho ! years she CCo>Sld the oCean. hut never was she 50 tar,!y IE reIOhinE port, 1 On Oct, . lNHi, she came into Now York harhor with go s0uls aboard >nlt incruStod to the top Or Ter tunnels Sho was only - hours late, but for four days and nights she had hrsn in the grip of a hurricane no day of such weather NpOiA navy NGNtNu tilS Sl&ALlN AlItCsS tl ttA ! most anything a:i'Ht. but I a GascoSnC wore out four days and nights If it and reached New urA practically uninju It Is such cv' crieucrS that has given the agents in i1i~ city confidence tha; heir boat is St!l. blowing th" seas or safo in somr out uf Ih" way haven
 IialifaA 3.um"r.
 Mepat hes reached here from Halifax with tho report that Ia Casc";ne had h,rn sighted in the Vicinity of sable island No official Nrrih"AtI"u of IhiS was tu l., had owing tu thr lmp,,~S hil.tN ul t;eitIug standardization w!Ih ,hc k anI. Any rv port, however, of A steamer lyinE un ~a) ], Island ina crippled condition in the ,uidsi of heavy gale~ would not l,e hope iu>rir. ing one. aS this k known as an extremely dangerous locality fer marines
 The island lI", ,!uut !a' miles soutl cast of Cape Cans" It Is narrow and low anu has been the s1, ne uf many shipwrccks. But tGO report. originating ill soIne un known WAY. even without verl4cLtion, was the sub (. [ o( Considerahl spc ulatioI on the part of shipping men. MI effort, on the part Uf the company to gvt vNpllril information in that connection wcre N !th out avail
 At the offices of the Campnsn ten eralo TransalIntiluc, Mir. Forget wa, said 10 lc in communication with al points from which news could he cxpectet by telegraph The men in tho office o the French line Io not worry much a. } they are usod to t,.c delays of vessels. and ? past experience has taught them that ire ! quent impcdIments to travel vn the water especially in stormy Wcathor arc mot , Nono Of them believes La tiaScognc to h, lost
 It is the friends and relatives of rasSrn
 
 who are fearful uf thc worst
 The men who report vesscls far dnwI the bay haNo kept th'r eyes sharp tuWart the soa in the hope oi Icing tho first tt signal the missing >'ctmcr.
 Last night the hamburg American line I Dania was reported uN firo island Tw, = hot1rS later nno!l rr ,t,aiurr wae rrpurtc, :, laSsing sandy !ouA lightship Soon sh was seen making ur -hurc There Sh anchurci and il k hc!irl oi that tGis Wa tho Dania that had crrpl up tEc bay. Tn . Dania left lIavro on tan. !,. threo day s after Ia GasroEnc, and horo has ccl t entertained that she would have som news of the missing steamer. . Views "n Ia t.n~coSnr.
 Captain Grlitiths of tho American Tran, port liner Manitoba said that he though La Gascogno would be first spoken by
 vessel bound from the Mediterranean Q eastward for Gibraltar.
 '' I sailed from London the day Ia Gas e cogne sailed from lavrc. said CaplAi Grifliths, anu n> her course was murc { . the southward she doubtless escaped ih } north Atlantic storms which all tho ve> U sels that sailed over nCrthcrly courses en P countered My opinion k that sho bruk down west of the Azores and was carrie l. by the prevailing currents into southcr 10 attitudes "
 e Captain button of the Umbrla callc IT attention to tho fact that somo years az o the steamship City of Brussels was lns u sight of for over 2u days, although she wa B. in the track of vessels. Then she Quietl y sailed into port without assistance He d engines wero crippled hut she had fou 'r masts with sails whereas a Gascngne Ina r. only two.
 'u Lieutenant Murdock. the navigator ( d tho United states steamship Minneapoli, x- said at the Navy club
 If La Gascognc broke down and Ina
 to resort to sails. she could hardly sprca
 enough canvas to make more than |
 miles day, and with the prevailing wint as marked out on the course which al
 head winds. she could hardly make an port for some days"
 At the Navy club tho officers present. a
 believed that the vessel would eventual
 come in with all aboard in good health
 No News From Abroad.
 HoRTB. ARo2Es. Feb l.-Nothin2 h - been learned here regarding the steam
 LaGascosne.
 LONDON, Feb 1l-No news of the
 Gascogne has been received here.
 HAvRE. Feb l1.-Ofhcials of the Fren line have heard nothing from the La Gi = cogne.