Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-27
.HOPE GOES IF
 FINDING LIFE .ON BOARD THE U. 5. DIV [ R
"A Is Found in Fifty FathOms of Water: All Efforts to Raise the Submarine With GrappIing Hooks Fail.
OFFICERS GIVE UP HOPE
 OF FINDING LIFE ABOARD
Naval Tender, Alert, Comes to Spot With Cranes and Hoped to Be Able to Get the Under water Boat to Surface.

HONOLULU. March 26-Tbe United States submarine tI. lay on the ocean floor, disabled. tonight while threo hundred feet above her a score of yes. sells combined in strenuous cf0r. to bring her 70 the surface. When cables from the naval tug, Navajo, were first made fast Go the heavy mass which afterwards proved ta be the F4. it was thought possible to tow her Jo shoal vuer where ir ouId be am easy matter 70 raise her
 Shortly before five this atteroUn however this plan was oiscarueo, owing tothe slowuees Of towing op- erauons An lerogram was sent to the naval tender Alert which is equipped with heavy cranes and tackle adapted such work of res- cue The Alert arrived at the zone of operations be.ore dark and then began the final stage Of worb which officials declared would result in rais- ing the damaged submarine
 Whether life sttll remains in any of the company of tventy-one ucn who have been submerged since car- ly yesterday will Lot be known until thc vessel is brought to the surrace. but the authorities have practically "ivou up hope However, resu=~it8t- ing apparatus has been dispatched from Pearl Harhor and every effort will bo made to develop any spark of life which may rnman. Vessels in the vicinity which 8.r equipped with submarine signal apparatus still ,ou- tinue to send out .guals but Io au- awer has come. The informed Ger- man steamer Pommer is active in this way
 The general opnion is hat the vessels plates ,uust have sprung through the immense pressure of wa- ter at the depth of fifty athoms end that the two officers and niue.ecu enlisted men abolrd per-hed
 lt was first definitely established. that the heavy 1ullt encountered ar three this afternoon by the grappi'ug hooks Of the naval tug Navajo vas tho missing submarine when tha ar- ached flags of one of her marker luoys were discovered 3o feet beneath the surface. Al once thc vessels which had been dragging other parts of he locality with grapplers and heavy chains assembled and assisted in towing which proceeded uuri, 'he time when it was deemed advisable to adopt the plan of raising her by cranes.
 Those who to3l souudings, after the submarine Has Oscovercd. cN- pressed the opinion that the vessel was resting on au even keel and was right gtr up Dl tIu va. siu rising Go the surface. Earlier in the afternoon army engineers. who have been working on various locations. suggested sea a.CE iu a new spot. Div ing bells and other eQuipmen. were sent to this spot to renew the search. The new ehor,s were rewarded in hndins Che boa At six tonight the F-4 b.d been below for thirvrnrce hours.
 N' ,I"lt o'clock tori-ht trH inter- island steamer ~leudin cleft the Pearl Harbor naval station towing the d.ed- ger California which was loaded with heavy chains and other material to be usni 'n raising the submerged craft Meanwhile tugs we're hold. Ins last to the submarine whose po- sfi0n remained unchanged The plan which will be followed in raising her to the surface consists of lsver- ing chains O the "A and using a sig nal wire attached 10 marker tuoy as a guide and passing them around the hull knotting them before hoist ing away
 Washington Despairs
 AsHINGTON. March e6-s.Resr Admiral Moore, St aoBolau abled