The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
Indicated That Sunken Ves-
 sel Is Rapidly Filling With Water as Work to Raise
 It Goes On
CABLE SLIPS AND
 VALUABLE TIME IS
 LOST BY RESCUERS
Crowds Line Water Front Throughout the Night as
 Work Progresses-Wife of Commander PrOstrated

Honolulu, March 27.-Streams of bubbles continuing to come to the sur face of the ocean, indicating that the submarine F-4 rapidly was filling with water, caused naval officers tonight to decide to continue throughout the night the work of trying to raise the sunxen craft.
 Brilliant moonlight assisted the op- erations.
 Mrs Ede, wife of Lieut.. Alfred Louis Ede, commander of the F-4. is pros trated.
 crowds continued to line the water front, among them relatives of the crew
 Business in Honolulu has been con ducted at about half it's normal ca pacity since word first came that the F-4 was in distress All army social affairs were cancelled
 When work was resumed tonight the first heavy loop of chain cast from the dredger California caught the bu,1 of the submarine but slipped off
 The second and third casts proved 1ruitiess, but workers resumed ma. neuvering the heavy dredge about the buoyed spot, beneath which lies the helpless craft It requires an hour to complete this circle
 The tackle with which the rescue ships are equipped is said to be hard " adequate for emergency work of this kind. Diving suits for deep water were needed officers said. 
 Hope Fades
 Honolulu, March 27.--Hope that the sub- marine F-4 would be raised before night Tall faded this afternoon when chain loop attached to the disabled craft slipped and she settled back again to the ocean bed. The most optimistic of the naval off1cials here conceded tonight there was no reasonable chance of any of the submarines crew of 2l being taken out alive.
 The powerful dredger California lifted the F-4 90 feet before the mishap oc- cured which plunged the submarine back into the lips of the ocean crater in which 1t is believed to have lodged.
 Immediately, however, fresh efforts were begun to obtain another grip on the hulk.
 OWiiS to the great ueptn-50 fatnOmS- or the submarines resting place and the peculiar formation of the oceans floor The task of passing chains under the yes- sel is extremely difficult. Divers cannot work effectively at that depth and the casting about for hold is necessarily haphazard
 As soon as the F-4 is elevated to a point where divers can operate, lifting chains will be made fast to her bow and stern and then it will be comparatively easy for the dredger to bring the vessel to the surface.
 Work in Haste
 The rescuers worked with feverish haste today, spurred by confident predictions of officers that life still would be found in some of F-4s crew if the boat could be raised before night.
 There were numerous eart-breaking mishaps. Once a cable, grooming with the dead weight of the hulk, suddenly sagged, releasing it's hold on the F-4 Later, just after a chain had been suc- cessfully placed under the vessel it slipped off the smooth plates. The disappointment of the workers reached it's climax when the hulk, after having been raised fully 50 feet, again shook off the chain and sank. The submarine had then been under water more than 54 hours.
 Air bubbles rising to the surface today were taken to indicate that at least one of the Els three compartments had burst