Salt Lake Herald | 1899-03-31 | Page 6 | Curious Tale of the War

cllj1Jg AEOFE AR MYSTERIOUS DIECOVEIIY OF AN ABADONED VESSEi Pound Off the Newfoundland qoast S WithSteun Up But Nota Soul OxtBoar New York March 30The Times says The Scipo a craft from no nhipre bound to nowhereflylng no flag ownerless and crettess is to be sold to the hiighet bidder at the Brooklyn navy yard by the United states govern meat A board haS been appointed to exunino thd ship which lies at the yard The board will determine as to how to irspose of her The bbard vIl perform a similar duty with respect to tl steamer Niagara which f also at jhe Brooklyn yard This was bought by the goveriment from the ward lIne during the Spanish war At the qutbreak of hostilities agents of this government were engaged in buying ships and wt munitions in England The beginning of actual hos tilitles found some of the deals incomplete incom-plete England being a neutral power these lncornpleted deals could not be pushed throughthat is to say apparently I appar-ently not Soon after the beginning of I thostihltles a steamshIp in perfect trim 1 from stenl to stern with furnace fires burning with steam up but vithout i a soul on board was found adrift off the coast of Newfoundland found by a I United States ship too oddly enough I The crewless ship was the Sciplo She flew no flag and there was not i so snuqll as a scrap of paper found on I btiard of hen o Indicate where she sailed I ed from where she was sailing to or who owned her She was a mystery of the deep Tire Sclpio carried a cargo I of coal hut never did such strange 1 things come out of a cargo of coal as came fiom the depths of the anthracite piled in tile hold There were guns fine modern affairs of English make Maxims Hotqhkiss cannon field pieces and othet ordnance together with ammunition am-munition Just how the Sciplo came to he found adrift with such an opportune cargo by a United States sllip has never been toldofflclaily TheSclplo has been at the Brooklyn navy yard since she was picked u adrift ore the high 9eas