Show A HT IS MISSING I Feared That Prominent Society Peo < pie Have Been Drowned S kIN 1 k-IN THE MEXICAN GULF I t TINT CBAFT ENCOTTNTESED A HEAVY GAL + I Colonel Yocum and Daughter of St Louis and a Daughter ofMayor Taggart of Indiana Were In the Party Last Heard From On January uary 3 9 I Louisville Ky Jan 15 There seems to be every reasons to believe that the Naptha yacht Paul Jones which left Louisville on Dec 7 with a pleasure party of prominent society people bound for Pensacola Fla and other ports in southern waters has gone down in a gale in the Gulf of MexiCo with all on board The party consisted of Colonel H C Yocum and daughter Miss Yocum and G M Yocum all or St Louis Miss Florence Taggart daughter of Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis Indian-apolis and Miss Margie Woodland of Chicago Deck Hand John Barry and Engineer Badgley were the only two members of the crewof four known in Louisville The last heard from the yacht was when it left the mouth of the Mississippi Missis-sippi on Jan 3 I was the plan of Colonel Yocum under whose direction hC yacht was sailing o coast along the various ports between the Missis sippismouth and Pensacola where it was the intention of the party to make a considerable stay According to the weather reports received at the local bureau the yacht encountered a storm when three days out The relatives of those on board are in a terribly perturbed state of mind owing to lack of information They have been telegraphing every port oft the suit coast where it is thought the slightest chance of information could be obtained No word of the missing craft had been learned up to a late hour tonight Tugs have put out from a number of ports in search of her and some definite information may be learned concerning the vessels fate tomorrow to-morrow < About midnight Mayor Taggart in response to a query wired from In diananolis as follows Latest I have is what Mr Lawrence Jones pays that they left the lighthouse I light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi on Jan 3 for Pensacola since which time nothing ha been heard A telegram from Mobile Ala late tonight said There re no new particulars ticulars to be obtained regarding the reported loss of the yacht Paul Jones Tugs have been sent out pf southern ports and all shipping eopIe have been requested to keep a lookout for j the missing boat but no tidings have as yet been received Vessels arriving j I report that severe gales have been blowing forthe last few days on the I gulf They say the winds have been very strong for several weeks Every I means Is being taken to find some trace of the yacht I I is barely possible that the Paul Jones put in during the gale at a point along the coast where there is no telegraph tele-graph office hence no tidings The Paul Jones was one of the finest pleasure yachts of her size afloat being be-ing sixty feet in length ten feet beam and five feet draught A 20horse 1 power gasoline engine in the center of the boat furnished the power to turn the single screw propeller Fuel for 1200 miles was carried The interior of the four cosy cabins was finished j in mahogany and plate glass mirrors and these were changed to sleeping I rooms much as u sleeping car is changed from a coach to a sleeper at j night j The complete equipment and hand I some decorations made it a veritable I floating palace The fine lines of the hull and unusually un-usually powerful engine and screw made the yacht as speedy and seaworthy I sea-worthy as it was possible to construct I The cruise of the Paul Jones was to have lasted until next June From New I Orleans the yacht wa to go to Mobile and thence to Clearwater Fin where I the party a to spend some time at Mr Yocums cottage which he erected I during the summer There Mr Lawrence I Law-rence Jones was to have joined them The plan was then to proceed to Key West Havana and circle Cuba before I their return visiting Puerto Rican waters also Indianapolis Ind Ja 15 Mayor r Taggart received a telegram from I Senator Fairbanks tonight saying he i would ask the treasury department to I send a revenue cutter in search of the Paul Jones Mayor Taggart will leave i I I for Mobile tomorrow unless favorable i tidings are heard I |