The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-02
(Froui "wednesday \ Advertiser.l

KS hfOm Wednesday = Autcftloer.)
is hgntinS hard 20 hold
IN unto his bosom the tombship
submarine "a. sealed and silent with
its human cargo beneath hundred
fath0ms Of sea In the fairway within
sight Of Honolulu. Man. with every
facility ct his command In these Isi-
ands, every ingenious device that
could be thought Of by those who have
given their lives 70 graphing with
death on the sea, "a doing ali In his
power to bring back TO sunlight and
air the bodies Of the fearless young
men who last Thursday morning sail
cd 70 heroes graves. All hope for the
lives Of the mon has been given up.
Neptune still holds the mastery.
FINAL STRAND GIVES WAY
All that has been done since last
Thursday came 70 naught AZ ave
o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the
big fve-inch steel cable which was
fastened to one end Of the gunken PA
snapped like . small cord. Earlier IA
1.-THE day . similar cable from the
dredge California. also fastened TO the
Submarine, broke under the terrific
strain. Each Of these big cables, tests
had showed, had . breaking strength
OF about eighty-four tons. The fat
that both dredgc and tug had labored
throughout Monday night In an effort
to drag the submarine closer to shore
and shallow water ana had made but
= few feet progress, was sufficient to
convince Lieut.. q. =. Smith, IN COM
mand Of the submarine notilla, that
the IA Is Hooded and Water-logked, q
dead weight Of three hundred and
nifty tons or more resting on the floor
Of the sea, too deep to be safely reach
cd by man, too heavy to DO pulled to
the surface by any unit Of lifting pow
or to be had IN these Islands
II seemed all but hopeless task
when daylight came yesterday morn
ing and the slight hopes the rescuers
from the dredge California broke.
CABLES HAD FIRM HOLD
The dredge had = cabls loop over
one end Of the "a The loopod cable
from the Navajo encircled the other
end. The two cables were 50 crossed
as TO form what was believed TO be q
secure cradle. With tho dredge hold
ing with every available ounce Of pow
or at It's command and the Navajo
steaming under full speed Il Is esti-
mated that lifting power Of about
ITO tons was applied 10 the sunlken
vessel. Some claim II was towed In
shore distance Of about one hundred
feet. Others who were at the scene
state that the distance was not so
great. But all admit that some prog
ress was made before the drodge cable
snapped under the terrific strain.
Prom Ave o'clock yesterday morning
until I'VE o'clock last night Captain
Meters Of the Navajo made every ef-
fort to keep his cable taut. The tender
ship Alert, in command Of lieutenant
! Oanaga, was brought into service to
hold the Navajo into the wind,
Though the cable was always undor
terrific strain IL held throughout tho
day and but for the fact that ehoppy
sea was running II Is possiblo the steel
strand would have held TO It's strike
successfully. But when this broke
there was nothing TO do hut for tire
Navajo to steam into port and give its
tired oficers and crew an opportunity
! for q brief rest
The Alert remained near the scene,
but there Is nothing now to mark the
iurfate beneath which the Pa is lying.
There Is no doubt as TO its position,
which has been carefully plotted from
shore. 3ist
AS the cable from the Navajo broke
ast night, great gush Of air bubbles
rose 70 the surface. followed by oil aud
oil bubbles, indicating that the help,
less craft beneath was again settling
back into the coral and sand three
hundred feet below
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