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Show SOUTHERN CROSS is iNjm Famous Shackleton Vessel Caught in Death Dealing Blizzard. MEAGER ADVICES SENT Bellaventura Nearing Port With 58 Bodies and 35 Survivors of Doomed New Foundland. St. Johns, N. F., April 3. There was growing apprehension today that tlm sealing steamer Southern Cross went down with all on board during the blizzard off Cape Race Tuesday. She carried a crew of 170 men and was heavily loaded with 17,000 seal skins, trophies of n hunt recently concluded in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Hope for the safety of the vessel, basod on a dispatch from Sydney, N. S., which stated that a wireless message had been received there reporting re-porting the arrival of the Southern Cross, was dissipated before noon when the government, aftor several hours' inquiry declared the Sydney report untrue. The government has. instituted an extended search for tho missing vos-sel vos-sel and appealed to the United States for assistance. The Rdld New Foundland company's steamer Kyle, which has a good wireless equipment, was chartered for the purpo3e nnd will sail at midnight. The American Ameri-can revenue cutter Seneca, which is doing patrol duty several hundred miles off the southern coast, was asked ask-ed to assist. The sealer Bellaventure, with her cargo of dead, is blocked in the Ice 100 miles north of here, and cannot arrive before Sunday. Shq went to the aid of her sister seajer, the Now Foundland, when 120 hunters from the latter wero caught by tho storm while killing seals Tuesday, and were unable un-able to regain their ship. The Bellaventure, the Stephano and Florizel picked up many bodies and a number of survivors. It is Tcnown that fifty-eight lives were lost and jH some thirty men are not accounted for. It Is believed that it is scarce- iH ly possible that the latter could have jH survived the long exposure on the jH ice floes. jH Message From Bellaventure. 'il A message received here at 3:30 fkaW o'clock this afternoon from the cap- ll tain of the Bellaventure says that H the total dead of the crew of the -'H New Foundland Is 77. One hundred jH and twelve were rescued and of these, 16 are ill. cH The captain's message follows: fH "Have just reached steamer New jH Foundland and checked figures by her kkm roster. Find she had 189 total crew. Of these 112 are safe but 36 are on fH the sick list. Total dead 77 of which !iH 69 bodies recovered. Remaining eight IjH lost amid floes. il "Am now leaving to proceed to St Johns. Fear slow progress, as Ice heavy and- tight Stephano, which mlM also lying alongside New Foundland, mlmW will report names of dead." ! New York. N. Y., April 3. A pri- fl vatc message received here today said that the sealer Southern Cross had not arrived at Channel, N. F., as re- ported from St. John and grave fears t were expressed for the vesse's safety. When ninety miles from port, the Bellaventure became blocked In the jH ice off Cape Bondvista and at noon her captain sent a wireless message stating that it might be Sunday be- fore he could dock. Many of the fakm rescued sealers are so ill that the death list will probably be increased. fl Confidence in the safety of the Southern Cross, caused by the report that sho was at Channel, gave way to doubt as the day progressed and iH no confirmation of her arrival there was received. The government this morning .sent a wireless message to the United States revenue cutter Sc- neca asking her to search for the ' Southern Cross. (kkmm no il |