Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-11
MYSTERIES OF SEA TO DESTROY FLIES.
ships and Passengers That Are
Lost Forever.
Their Uncanny Disappearance rur'
nishes Battling Puzzles Winch Can
not Be Determined by Man
Only Vague Theories.

OUiJ d6NS
II the ocean has It's mysteries So
has the ship that rides IT, ana WHICH
furnishes the more battling puzzles
would be difficult TO determine
Ships leave ports and are never seen
nor heard Of again. and-ln some Ie-
snects more inexplicable still-pas'
sepgers board vessels and suddenly .
forever vanish from human ken.
The strange disappearance OF Doctor
Diesel. the famous inventor, Is Cast
in point which must be fresh IN every
bodys mind.
one day short time ago, it VIII De
remembered. Doctor Diesel LETT AN
worn ON board one of the Great East
ern Railway cOmpany's steamers lo'
Uarwich. whence he proposed hurry
ing to London to keep an lihpOi ''l'
business engagement On Ooaru 'i'
steamer the doctor appeared 10 DC III
the best of health and spirits ana at
ten O'Clock p. n. retired 10 HIS '"0'"
for the night.
Next morning he was nowhere 10 De
found and the mystery of his dlsap
pearance remains still unsoiVed.
Again. not many months ago 'he
steamship Baldor, on arrival III ule
Firth of Forth from GothenOurg' hau
queer story to unfold through the
mouth OF her skipper.
II concerned the uncanny disappear
ance of a second-class lady passenger.
/ The last seen of her was late at night,
when one of the stewardesses ho'Iceu
her pacing the deck. The Vessei Was
then in the North sea.
Afterward the passengers perrin was
found to be unoccupied, and, not onlS
the lady, but her baggage, conslstihe
of a bag, had vanished. Where anu
how no one knows.
Could anything be more baffiing than
the following? 1t occurred on boaru
steamer between Leith and orkney
Among the passengers were TWO SIS
ters. who we're travelling to attend INT
funeral of third sister.
When off Bell lighthouse one OF tn'
women retired TO her bunk, the olher
as the night was fine, preferring 10 re
, main little longer on deck ina
was the last seen of her.
Another amazing incident was ina
, reported by the captain OF Du'cl
steamer. the Van MORT, on MS ai
!, rival at Singapore. The parties lmme
diately concerned were three sister
NJ German nationality who were pas
sengers aboard. and had been tourlh
i in Java.
i After having spent the evening o
!, deck. chatting and reading. they "el
seen one night going to their caDl
, about ten o'clock Next morning IN
;. attendant could get no answer 10 n
a knocks at the cabin door. and, on
q entry being made, the room was toul
W empty.
"a On the table was a note addresse
re to the captain, which brieny state
y that he was to have their luggage, al
lg on a desk was a bottle containing
T. few drops Of chloroform. From this
In was coniectured that the three slste
OF had each taken cnlOToloiH' anu -
m climbed through the portfolio into u
is sea!
as AS a final example may be me
TO toned the case of vivacious you
ST woman who disappeared from
er steamer while crossing from Bella
to Fleetwood.
TO At IL o'clock p. N. the young WON
nd was seen by the stewardess' Wh'
1t she asked to bring her cup OF tea
OF seven O'Clock next morning, as
lid wished to catch an early train to Nj
tut chester. At the hour named
I'd, stewardess took in the tea as deslr
ter hut was amazed to find the ca
empty.
'uI II was surmiseG the girl had 1al
VIII overheard while walking in her sic
IRE or climbed through the portfolio d
A@A' the sea-two theories which had
're' much of the element of probability
recommend them.