The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-04-01
TO SPEND $4,000
To GET SUBMARINE
OUT FROM OCEAN
secretaryDanielsA Auth
orizes Expenditure
at Honolulu.
TO LEARN CAUSE
TO LEARN CAUSE
Navy Department Wants In
Information TO Avoid Rep
etition of the Accident.

Washington, ID. C-An expendi-
ture of $4,000 to bring the sunken
u. S. submarine F-4 to the surface
in the Honolulu harbor was au-
thorized today by Secretary Daniels.
after a message was received from
Rear Admiral Moore saying that
hawser attached to the boat had
parted and that the present equip
ment is too light to raise her.
Diving Tube to BE Used.
Honolulu. Hawaii. on a
diving tube, with which it is hoped
to locate the submarine FL, lost with
its crew of 81 men outside the har-
Dor here since last Thursday pro-
gressed SO rapidly last night that it
was believed that it might be ready
for use before morning. Drag lines
an object believed to be the subma-
rine. With, this new diving tube it
will be quickly determined, officers
say, whether the Navajo's find really
is the F-4 In the meantime other
vessels are continuing to drag the
ocean bed in search of the missing
craft
IIawser Breaks.
Washington, ID. C.-Efforts to
raise the sunken submarine F-4 in
Honolulu harbor were temporarily
suspended yesterday after a hawser,
with which the boat was being drag
ged toward shore, snapped.
Rear Admiral Moore reported from
Honolulu late yesterday that the
submarine evidently was waterlogged
and too heavy to be raised by the
equipped employed by the searching
feet This destroyed any faint hope
that might have been left of finding
any of the crew of 2 l live.
The vessel lines in AS fathoms, 270
feet, of water and her position is be-
ing held while preparations for rails
ing her by pontoons are made. Ad-
miral Moores report follows:
Lieutenant c. +. Smith, command
ing the first submarine division of
the Pacific torpedo flotilla has locat-
ed the F'-4 and moved her slight
distance in shore. The lifting haw-
ser parted. The submarine evident
ly is waterlogged. The equipment
here is too light to raise her. We are
making arrangements to lift her by
the pontoon method We still have
line on the submarine and can
hold her location. The depth is 40
fathoms.'
To Raise Boat At Any Cost.
Secretary Daniels said last night
that the department would raise the
F-4 at any cost to determine the
cause of her accident, in order to
guard against similar disasters in the
future He emphatically denied re-
ports of dissatisfaction over the
work being done by the naval au-
thorities at Honolulu.
Nothing could be further from
the truth" he said. The department
is convinced that everything possible
is being done with the means at hand.
Honolulu, being an isolated station,
is not nearly as well equipped for
salvage purposes as are some OF the
naval stations on the mainland. but
there is every indication that the
Officers and men at Honolulu are in
iefatigably working night and day
with every means in their power to
raise the submarine and rescue their
shipmates.
.'Should Admiral Moore, the conf
mandant of the station, and Lieut.
Smith, the commander of the sub
marine division, fail to raise the sub
marine through lack of necessary app
pliances, it is the departments in
tention to send out the necessary SAL
wage equipment, including deep sea
diving apparatus as we'll as expert
deep sea divers, to accomplish the
purpose.
'It would, of course, be impossible
to get such equipment to Honolulu IN
time to save the lives OF the crew.