The age-herald., 1899-01-21
THE PAUL JONES
 WAS DESTROYED Stem of the Naptha Launch Discovered
 on Breton Island. CLOTHING OF MISS TAGGAR l Has Been Positively Identified by tue
 Young Lady'S Father. NO BODIES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED Gasoline Tank of the Vessel Exploded and Caused the Wreck of the Graft Relief Expeditions Search
 ing for the Remains.
CLOTHING OF MISS TAGGART I
NO BODIES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED

Mobile January 2o-The government steamer Pansy touched at Biloxi, 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 mashed and other small articles from the launch. The condition of the wreckage up and tore the boat to pieces The Pansy met the Maud with Messrs. Jones and Tag gart on board. The latter visited the wreckage and identified it as a part of the Paul Jones. No bodies were found.
 E. F. Fremont and party left scranton this forenoon in a sailing yacht, the Ade- laine, very light craft, and will visit every nook to the westward. The expedition is volunteer one, and is provisioned for ten days.
 The launch had the following pleasure seekers on board:
 Joseph Brinkman, Louisville; Miss Flor ence Taggart, daughter of Mayor Taggart, Indianapolis; Miss Margarie Woodland daughter of George Woodland, Vice-presl- dent Prairie State bank, Chicago; Colonel Harry c. Yokum, St. Louis; Miss Florence Yocum St. Louis, his daughter.
 The crew consisted of three men, whose names are unknown.
 The Pleasure Seekers
 The launch, which was owned oy Law renee Jones, Louisville distiller, was loaned by him to MT. Yocum, and left Louisville December for a trio to Florida She left New Orleans for Pensacola on January 8. Since that time nothing definite has been heard from her until today, al though her loss has been rumored since last Sunday.
 News confirming the loss was brought by oyster fishermen who have known 1t Tor more than week. The launch exploded they say, on or about January near Bird island. and everything goes to show that all on board were killed at once or drowned soon after.
 The boat was operated by gasoline en- zine, and it is now recalled that she met with several accidents from fire on the way down the river. It is regarded as certain that this engine exploded, but from what cause will probably never be known. The force was such that it not only blew off the pilot house, but split the yacht in two.
 Clothing Identified
 The men who brought this definite news are engaged in the oyster fisheries off the east Louisiana coast. Last Friday they visited Bird Island and found a lumber schooner ashore, also pleasure yacht near
 tryar nl in half by an internal explosion. The men boarded the yacht and explored her cabin, breaking open the trunks and taking from them a lot of fine female apparel, and keys and whatever other property they discover cred on board.
 Although their discovery occurred week ago. inc men did not come to Venice, the nearest settlement until today, when they had to do so to lay in supply of provis- ions. In Venice they turned the keys over to a storekeeper by whom these facts were made known. The keys bear tax inscrib- ed .lSletcher & Co.,, Indianapolis.'
 The clothing taken from the trunk by the men was identified by MT. Taggart as that of his daughter.
 No tbodies were seen by the men on or near Bird island, but there is no hope of any having escaped from the wreck. The Paul Jones had two boats. One badly stove in was picked up by the Marie Louise, Of Mobile. The other, with Paul Jones' painted on her, was found by the Pansy, of Biloxi. The three relief expeditions ought to, reach Bird island tomorrow. Two go from New Orleans the Zeta and the Doul- let, and one from Mobile, the Maud Bird island is merely sand reef covered by coarse sea grass.