The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-09
Especial from United PressO

l Special from United PressD l Washington. Sept. 9-The investiga- tfon into the cause of the accident on the North Dakota where three men were killed and nine injured. it is be- lieved here today, will go behind the returns" and a strenuous effort will be made to discover the elementary trouble which has caused three naval disasters this year.
 The fact that the North Dakota was the latest product of the highest naval skill in this country. with no question of money considered in its construe- tion, makes the situation puzzling to naval officers.
 Admiral Schroeder. after carefully examining the machinery in the room that in his opinion the men were not to hlame.
 It is his opinion that no element of 1 care1essness entered into the situation. This, it is believed, will put it up to the board of Inquiry to find what the elementary trouble is behind the fre- quency of naval accidents Tn a, dispatch. to the Navy Depart ment today Admiral Schroeder gave no further information, having been unable to find any new evidence that would give an explanation of the cause of the accident. Officials of the Navy Department admit that they are non advance theory as to the immediate cause of the! explosion. There is ap- parent, however. clearly defined feel ing that something is radically wrong.
 On April 3 of this year a, boiler ex- ploded on the cruiser Maryland, off Monterey Bay. California. killing one man and injuring several.
 Last February a boiler tube in the destroyer Hopkins Pl;j1 exploded @ in San San 1naiming five men.
 h the case of the Hopkins it was freely charged that the trouble was tween factions at the Mare Island Navy Yard where shortly before that time boiler tubes in one of the ships were. discovered to have been stuffed
 The North Dakota was built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company. but the work was done under the close inspection of Navy Department offic- iaIs. '
 Rear Admiral Schroeder reported to- day that the injured were all expected to recover, there having been no inn portant change in their condition. He added to the list announced yesterday the name of w. J. McCauley, whose next of kin is Mary McNlIlty of Coal Pit avenue, Danbury, Conn The de- partment stated that the name of Lieutenaht Commander AOrfen G. Mur- fin, published in some lists of injured, was obtained through error. Murfin was not hurt. according to, the official dispatches, the number of injured be- ing nine.
 THE DEAD. A
 Joseph W. Schmidt, coal passer; en- listed at New York. October 25, 1909: next of kin. mother, Anna Schmidt, 1048 Decatur street, Brooklyn.
 Robert Gilmore. coal passer: enlisted Newport. R. T., January, 1910; next of kin, mother, Nellie Gilmore. Seyms street, Hartford, Conn.
 s1 Joseph Strait, coal passer; enlisted Grand Rapids, Mich, June, 1907; next of kin, father, Peter Strait, 82 Bremen street, Newark, N. J. Also his sister. Amelia. G Letsche, Il Cook street, An sonia, Conn.
 The accident may have an important bearing on the attitude of the Navy Department toward the use Of oil fuel on naval ships, as it is comparatively an innovation with the American Navy Only the most recently con structed ships, the North Dakota and Delaware of the battleship class, with