Lost messages in inbox

While in the Mail program I went to preferences, and deleted an email account for sbcglobal.net by hitting the “-“ button. )The reason I did this was to prevent my yahoo plus mail (newly purchased) from going to the sbc yahoo site, and retrieving the 8000 messages sitting on the server that I already removed once!)
THE PROBLEM: upon hitting the “–“ symbol and saving it and exiting preferences, the contents of my entire IN box , SENT box and DRAFT boxes disappeared! I have tried quitting mail and reopening mail several times, trying to find the missing mailboxes via Library—Mail, and copying them (IN, SENT, DRAFT) to desktop, as backups and then restarting but nothing is working. I didn’t delete the messages so they must be somewhere on my computer right? Will someone PLEASE help me find them, I lost about 100 messages in my inbox, hundreds and hundreds from SENT and about 30 work drafts in progress in DRAFTS, I am completely freaking out!
Julie

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