Show PACIFIC OCEAN BELIES ITS NAME British Steamr Gorscdd Believed to Be Lost LONG TIME OVERDUE TERRLIIW EXPERIENCES op THE SCHOONER 1imiTAY Gorseild Is the Tlilril Steamer Unaccounted Un-accounted For Lately and the Consensus of Opinion is That All of Them niul Also the Lord Brassey Went Dorm at About the Same Time But Little Hope Entertained En-tertained PORT TOWNSEND Wash Dec 4 Much apprehension is felt for the British Brit-ish steamship Gorsedd Captain Mead now out 25 days from Singapore This I Is the third steamer which Is unac i I counted for on the northern Pacific 1 ocean the others being Eskdale and St Rathavanis bound westward The Gorsedd is a 2400 ton tramp steamer bound to Tacoma to load lumber lum-ber for South Africa She sailed from Singapore six weeks ago and should have made the passage In less than 23 days The schooner Puritan 43 days from Tien Tsln which has just arrived reported re-ported experiencing Nov 14 and ID on he eastern edge of the China sea a typhoon of unusual violence before which she ran under bare poles for two days Captain Saxe says the gale was he severest ue ever passed through m the Pacific ocean It Is a miracle he says that she did not founder laving only two experienced seamen i n the forecastle The steamship Tacoma which arrived ar-rived a few days ago from the Orient massed through the same storm and narrowly escaped destruction The concensus of opinion is that the three steamships and the British ship Lord Brassey foundered in the same storm thus causing a Joss of 150 lives and property valued at one and a quarter quar-ter million dollars The Gorsedd is a staunch new steamer navigated by experienced ex-perienced officers and hope is held out that one of the steamships sony lave become disabled and is being lowed to port by the other In the latter event It Is quite probable that the disabled craft will be taken to one of the harbors of the Aleutian islands and anchored The Gorsedd was in ballast and officers who passed through the storm are of the opinion that a steamship without a cargo would fare badly In such a typhoon |