Show DISCOVERY IS LOST Wreckage of the IllPated Steamer Washing Ashore S Seattle Xov 22A dispatch from Ju ncnti Alaska announces that L Bent a uasenier on the steamer Excelsior Captain of thc steamer arriving today reports that a mass of wreckage from the steamer Discovery has washed ashore at the mouth of Seal river thirty miles below Yakutal Bents information informa-tion makes It practically certain that the Discovery Is lost and loaves little hopes for eIther passengers or crew I Is believed In fact that everybody on board perished The wreckage found wJcelaSe 10un Bent snyu conslats of pieces of lifeboats life-boats life preservers and large pieces of her hull He states that a terrifIc storm prevailed for u week prior to November No-vember IGth on which date ho boarded the Excelsior at Yakutat having walked ninety miles from Seal river to catch the steamer The Yakutat Indians were watching the beach for bodies and they claim to have found a large Piece of mast and A mans coat The number of people aboard tIe Discovery passengers and crew is estimated at thirty The vessel ves-sel left Yakutat November Oth according accord-ing to the officers of the steamer Nome City and was never seen after thai |