Show SANDON I F L fOR n u nu uti ti 1 I MISSING STEAMER ARKADIA AND Believed Lost in Gulf of Mexico in October HurI Hur Hur- I NEW YORK Dec Dee 10 The The name of the steamer Arkadia o ot 01 the New York and Porto Rico Navigation company has bas just been added to the New York maritime exchange post posted d catalog of missing ships The entry of a name thero there means that all aU hope for her has been abandoned It Tt is supposed that the tho Arkadia went wert down in the hurricane which swept the Gulf of Mexico and tho the Atlantic off the southern coast last October She was a foot steel steamer schooner rigged built in England in 1895 and considered able to outlive the strongest seas and winds Nothing has been heard of her since she left Now New Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans on October 11 bound for OI San Juan r A. A Ada day daj r the tho Arkadia sailed the hurricane which had swept t away many ships had begun to blow over the gulf but it its force was not even suspected when the Arkadia sailed Offshore however howe shipping men here think the Arkadia probably encountered squalls and went down before it perhaps withIn with with- within in a a few hours perhaps not until the steamer had been blown miles mites out of it its course courso and out of the course of any other vessels essela Captains Captain's Wife Yet IoP I-IoP Hopes J. J The only person peron who retains an any l hope that the missing ship may yet be found is the wife of Captain Richard Griffiths She lives in a little uptown apartment bere here from which she keeps daily vigil He has bas passed many worse storms she sho tells tos the owners hopefully antI and I Iam Iam am not going to tov believe that he lie met his death in that October blow The A Arkadia carried four passengers and find a crow crew of thirty seven men The officials of the navigation company lare iere believe that all are dead lead The passengers gers ers were Charles G. G Hunter E. E J. J Boudreaux and Oliver L. L of New Orleans reans and L. L Fredberg of Silver City N N. N M. M Most 1 of the steamer steamers steamer's s screw crew had homes in New Orleans but Captain Griffiths and Chief Officer Girod lived Jived in this city |