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Show PRO P ATRIA- IS MISSING French Steamer With Sixty Six-ty People on Board May Hvc Gone Down HALIFAX, N. S., March 14. No news having been received from the French steamer Pro .Patria since he left St. Pierre, Mlquelon, for Halifax, fourteen days ago, fears are now entertained en-tertained that she has met with disaster. dis-aster. The vessel should have reached this port March 2nd. The Pro Patrla' carried a erew of twenty , men, under command of Capt. LaFonreade, and on board were forty passengers, an unusually lrti complement comple-ment for this season of the year. ' Among the passengers. It is said, were a number of wealthy Parisians bound for their homes in France. None of the Incoming steamers have sighted the Pro Patrla. The Plant Steamship company, representative repre-sentative of the Pro Patrla, still' holds out the hope that the steamer Is In the ice, but shipping mrti In general say there is but slight chance of her being afloat Even should the vessel be afloat her passengers and crew must be starving, as she was never provisioned provis-ioned for more than six days and carried car-ried a limited supply of coal. |