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Show STORY OF SEA TRAGEDY HEMS 111 MESSAGES Three Men and Two Women Dead: Life Boats Adrift in Gulf GALVESTON, Texas. Oct 2. The 'United States naval radio station here I today received a message from the tank steamer Sun 'il statlnif that four linen in a Ufeboato f the steamer speed I well, had been pic ked up this morn-Mng morn-Mng In latitude 24.15 north and longitude longi-tude H4.BF1 west. Ships in the vicinity w.-re advised to be on the lookout for three other life boats In the vicinity containing thirteen persons. The message gave no information as I In w hat kind of disaster had befallen the Speedwell NEW ORLEANS, la.. Oct 2. Be arch for thirteen persons missing from the steamship Speedwell, la lzie ito New Orleans, believed to have l" en wrecked In the tropical hurrlcan of last Wednesday was being made tonight to-night in the gulf Five are known to I have died in a Speedwell lifeboat. I Word of the wreck came from th-'steamship th-'steamship Mobile City tonight. The I message said: "Picked up four men In lifeboat of (steamship speedwell. Another boat ladrlft in near vicinity with thirteen I persons In It. Kindly be on lookout '.for boat. Three men and two women dead Latitude 24.15 orih. longitude 84.05 west.'' 1 The Mobile City Is DOflnd for Mobile Officials were unable- to decide whether the five dead were on the life: jboat picked up or In the boat adrift. The position given is almost dlcertly in the path of the hurricane which jstruck the gulf coast near Morgan City last week. |