Show YACHT IS Bill N UP 4 Fate of Pleasure Party On the Mexican Mex-ican Gulf Gul t ALL ON BOARD PERISHED + PROMINENT SOCIETY PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES 4 Colonel Yocum and Daughter of St Louis and daughter of Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis Naptha Tank Blew Up Boat Was Torn to I Pieces I Mobile Ala Jan 20The government steamer Pansy touched at Biloxl Miss this afternoon and reported Hading on Breton island a part of the stern of the paphtha launch Paul Jones also small bat with bow smashed and other small articles from the launch The condition of tho wreckage tends to show that the naphtha tank blew up and tore the boat to pieces The Pansy met the Maud with Messrs Jones and Taggart on board The later visited the wreckage and identified were It a found part of the Paul Jones No bodies The launch had the following pleasure i seekers on board Joseph Brlnkman Louisville Miss Florence Tagsart Jaugh ter of Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis Miss Margerlo Woodland daughter of 1 George AVoodaland vice president of the Prairie State bank Chicago Colonel I larry C Yoeum St Louis is Florence Yocum his daughter I The crew consisted of three men whose name are unknown The launch which was owned by Lawrence Jones a Louisville Yocum Louis-ville distiller was loaned by him to Mr I News confirming the loss of the little craft has been brought by oyster fishermen I fisher-men who have known of It for more than a week The launch exploded they say on or about Jan 6 near Bird island and I everything goes to show that all on bard were killed at once or drowned soon after The men who brought this definite news are engaged in the oyster fisheries off the east Louisiana cost Last Friday they visited Bird Island and found the craft I ashore near the island The hull had been split in half by nn Internal explosion I The men boarded the yacht and explored her cabin breaking open the trunks and taking from them a lot of line female apparel I ap-parel and keys and whatever other prop nty they discovered on board Although I their discovery I I occurred a week ago the men did not come to I Venice the nearest settlement until today to-day when they had to do so to lay In a supply of provisions In Venice they turned the keys over to a storekeeper by whom these facts were made known The keys bear a tax inscribed Fletcher Fletch-er Co Indianapolis The clothing taken from the truk by the men is that of Miss Taggart No bodies were seen by the men on or near Bird Island but there is no hope of any one having escaped from the wreck The Paul Jones had two boats One badly stoved In was picked up by tho Marie Louise of Mobile The other with Paul Jones painted on her was found bv the Pansy off Blloxt The three relief expeditions ought to relish Bird island tomorrow Two gO from New Orleans and one from Mobile Ilnl Island is merely 1 sandy reef oem red by coarse sea grass |