Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-21
ALL ON BOARD WERE lost.
The Paul Jones Known Now to Have
Been Blown Up.
SUPP 6SED THAT THE GASOLINE
TANK, WHICH FURNISHED
POWER FOR THE YACHT, TOOK
FIRE AND EXTRAORDINARY
PIECES OF THE WRECK AND A
TRUNK FULL OF CLOTHING OF
ONE OF THE YACHTS GUESTS,
FOUND.

Mobile, Ala, January 20.-The gov
ernment steamer Pansy touched at, Bill
OIL, Miss, this afternoon and reported
finding on Breton Island a part of the
stern of the naphtha launch Paul Jones,
also a yawl boat with bow smashed and
other small articles from the launch.
The condition Of the wreckage tends
to show that the naphtha tank blew
up and tore the boat to pieces. The
Pansy met the Maud with Jones and
Taggart on board. The latter visited
the wreckage and identified it as a part
OF the Paul Jones. No bodies were
found.
o. f. Fremont and party left Scran-
ton this afternoon in the Adelaide, a
sailing yacht OF very light draft and
will visit every nook to the westward.
The expedition is proyisioned for ten
DAYS.
The launch had the following pleas
ure seekers on board: Brinkman, JOS,
Louisville; Taggart, Miss Florence,
daughter of Mayor Taggart, Indianapo-
lis; Woodland, Miss Margeria. daugh-
ter of George Woodland, vice president
Prairie State Bank, Chicago; Yocum,
Col. Harry c.. St. Louis; Yocum, Miss
Fldrence, his daughter. The crew con-
sisAed of three men whose names are
unknown.
HE launchA which was owned by
Lawrence Jones', a Louisville distiller,
waS loaned by thim to Mr.. Yocum, and
leA Louisville} December s for a trip
Florida She left New Orleans for
ensacola January 3. Since that time
ng definite has been heard from
ntil to-day, although her loss has
cen rumored since last Sunday.
News confirming her loss has been
Fought by oyster fishermen who have
lown of it for more than a week. The
unch exploded, they say, on or about
Iauary 6, near Bird island, and every
Thing goes to show that all on board
we're killed at once or drowned soon
AfterWard.
VThe boat was propelled by a gasoline
engine and it is now recalled that she met
with several accidents from fire on her
way down the river. 1t is regarded as
certain that the engine exploded, but
rom what cause viii probably never be
known. The force was such that i: no.
My blew~off the pilot house but split
be yacht in two.
Ifffe men who brought this definite news
Gngaged in the oyster fisheries off the
louisiana coast. Last FriIav tney
Bird Island and found a lumber
Aashore, also d pleasure y2cht
kand. The latter, they say, Was
alf by an internal explosion. The
prded the yacht ard explored her
reaking open the trunks and taxi
them I. io1 of tire female wear
EeI ind Eeya ana whatever clker
hey discovered on board.
their discovery occurred a
Ehe men did not come to Venice
MAuaaiL to-day, when
d to do so to lay in a supply of
BIS. In Venice they turned the
er to a store keeper by whom
ITS were made known.
Us bear a tag inscribed Fletcher
Indianapolis" The clothing taken
trunk by the men is that of Miss
dies were seen by the men on or
Erd Island, but there is no hope of
living escaped from the wreck. The
(ul Jones had two boats. One, badly
lSve in, was picked up by the Maria
Lopise, of Mobile. The other, with Paul
jones painted on her, was oun by the
Palsy off Biloxi.
The relief expeditions ought to reach
Bird Island tomorrow. Two go from
New Orleans, the zeta and the DouIlet,
and one from Mobile, the Maud. Bird Isl
J and is merely a sandy reef covered with
coarst sea grass.