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THE SHIP CUT IN TWO AT SEA
The New York Times, June 29, 1892, Wednesday

MORE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THE "FRED B. TAYLOR".

Among shipping men there is still the greatest interest in the wreckage that Capt. Cassens of the steam-ship "Ocean" saw on June 22. Nothing new has developed, but there is still every reason to believe that the wreckage seen was from the Yarmouth vessel "Fred B. Taylor", as she so closely corresponds to the description that was given by Capt. Cassens.

The mystery now is what steamer could have cut down the unfortunate vessel.
Boyd & Hincken, the agents of the "Taylor", though fearful that it is their vessel that has been lost, have not given up, all hope. They said yesterday that the "Taylor" was only forty-seven days out from Havre, and that it orften takes a vessel sixty or seventy days to make the passaee. The Taylor was insured for $60.000.
Additional, evidence was adduced last evening that the wrecked vessel was the "Taylor", Capt. Churchill of the stevedore firm of Dick & Churchill, the father-in-law of Capt. Hurlbut of the "Taylor", heard that Capt. Hasketh of the steamer "Stewart Prince" had said that he could give a good description of the figurehead which he saw when he passed the bow of the vessel which is now supposed to be the "Taylor". Having heard this, Capt. Churchill went to the agents, Boyd & Hincken, and got from them a description of the figurehead of the "Taylor". The agent's descrip-tion of the figure was that of a man dressed in a reefer jacket and wearing a blue pair of trousers.
Having secured this information from the agents, Capt. Churchill called on Capt. Hasketh and asked him to describe the figurehead on the bow of the vessel that he had seen. Capt. Hasketh did so and the description corresponded exactly with the one given by the agents of the "Taylor". This settles pretty conclusively that the wreckage belonged to the "Taylor", and Capt. Churchill believes that the "Taylor" has gone down and all on board have perished.
A dispatch received from Boston last night said that the Captain of the "Hyppolite Dumois", which had just arrived in port, said that on Saturday, when fifty miles south of South Shoal Lighthouse, he had passed the forward portion of a wreck that seemed to answer the description of the "Taylor". There was an anchor hangng from the port cathead and a raft was floating alongside.