The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-14
ROYAL MAIL STEAMER WITH 120 ABOARD BELIEVED TO BE
 SUNK NEAR REEF.
CALLS FOR AID ARE SPILLED
After Hours of Frantic Endeavor to Call Some Passing Vessel to It's Aid Another Catastrophe of the North Seas Likely.

Halifax, N S., Jan. 13.-A wireless call for help from the royal malt steamer Cobequid, fast on the edges of Grand Manan, just before dawn today, followed five hours later by q final flicker of her radio. saying that the ship was filling, has caused grave concern for those on board, number ing about 120 persons,
 The Cobequid was bound for St. John N E., from the British West Indies, in command Of Capt. Hawson, completing her first round trip over this route. She had a crew of 102 men, a number of second class pas- sengers and the following in the first class cabin:
 l.. S. Navarro, L. Botta, w. c. Sol Ter, Mrs. Soller and child.
 The vessel had called at Bermuda, but most of her passengers were from points south of there.
 Whether the Cobequid had survived an all-day battering by hurricane seas and would hold together until one of the fleet of nearly a dozen rescue boats could reach her, was a matter Of increasing hourly anxiety tonight.
 Up to dark no trace of the distress ed vessel had been found on the east shore of the Bay of Fundy. where she was first reported aground Nor could a glimpse of her be seen through the vapor which shrouded the west side of Grand Manan, on one of whose numerous ledges it lat- CT was believed she rested
 The Cobequid formerly was the steGmr Goth and had been pressed into the service from maritime prov inces to the tropics. She sailed from Halifax December for West Indian ports and started north again on De- cember 30 from Grenada She called at Bermuda on the 9th and then clear- ed for St. John.
 Approaching the Bay of Fundy. fa- nous for it's swift tides and moun- tainous seas, a blizzard descended upon the steamer. Capt. Hawson was heading for Gannet Rock Light, the guide to the western side of the bay and a warning of the ledges which stretch ten miles to the southward Of Grand Manan.
 It was about sunrise when the op- orator at the wireless station at Cape Sable, across the bay, picked up the Cobequld's call for help. The mes- sage said that the vessel had struck a ledge off Brier Island, which is on the east side of the bay and needed immediate assistance. For the next few hours fragmentary messages were received from the stranded steamer, one Of which said that the forward hold was filling. At $40 a, m came the last gasp of the fading wireless to the operator reporting that the engine room was flooded and the batteries supplying the wireless were exhausted
 In the meantime both the Cana dian and American governments had begun active measures for rescne. The German steamer Kronprinzess Cecilie. off Sable Island, on her way to New York, was urged to change her course and head for the Cobe- quid, 200 miles to the northward.
 The government steamer Lady I.au- Tier was started out from this nert for the run of 150 miles to Grand Manan. The steamers Belvfdere. Helena and Landown were asked to help, and the revenue cutter Wood bury, in command of Lieut.. Ridgely. on her way from Portland to Rock land, was ordered to steam full spead for the scene
 Toward night it was discovered that the cable steamer Tyrian was at anchor behind Campobello, only forty miles from Gannet Rock Liglt. and a message was sent to her skin per. urging him to proceed imme- diately to the Cobequid's aid.
 The keeper of the Brier Island Light, in message. stated he had seen no trace of the Cobequid. Later the steamer John l.. Cam. which made circuit of the island during the day, confirmed lre Iightkeeper's message. On again reading the first message from the Cobequid, the opin- ion was reached that the navigator was at loss as to the real position of the steamer. and that she in real ity was on the west side of the bay.
 Unfortunately, communication with Grand Manan had been cut off some