Arizona republican., 1915-03-27
Score OfBoats Working To Bring Hey To,Smyt0ce
Whether Life Still Remains in Any of Twentv-one Men in Hull Will Not Be Known Until Craft is Raised
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 HONOLULU, March 2e.-The United States submarine F-4 lay on the ocean floor disabled tonight, while three hun dred feet above her a score of vessels combined in a strenuous effort to bring her to the surface. When the cables of the naval tug Navajo were first made fast to a heavy mass which afterwards proved to be the F-4, it was thought possible to tow her to shoaI water where it will be an easy matter to raise her.
 Shortly before five o'clock this after noon, however, this plan was discarded owing to the sIowness of the towing operations. An aerogram was sent to the naval tender Alert which is equipped with heavy cranes and tackle adopted to the work of rescue. The Alert arrived at the scene of opera tions before dark and then began the final stage of the work which the of ficiaIs declared would result in raising the damaged submarine.
 Whether life still remains in any of the company of twenty one men who have been submerged since early yes terday will not be known until the ves- sel is brought to the surface, but the authorities have practically given up hope. However, resuscitating apparat- US has been despatched from Pearl Harbor and every effort will be made to develop any spark of life which may remain.
 Vessels in the vicinity which are equipped with submarine signal appar- atus still continue to send out signals, but no answer has come. The informed German steamer Pommern is active in this way.
 The general opinion is the vessels plates must have been sprung through the immense pressure of the water at depth of fifty fathOms and that the two officers and nineteen enlisted men aboard have perished. It was first definitely established that the heavy bulk encountered at three o'clock this afternoon by the graphing hooks of the naval tug Navajo was the missing sub marine when detached flags of one of her marker buoys were discovered thir- ty feet beneath the surface. At once the vessels which had been dragging in other parts of the locality with grapp- lers and heavy chains assembled and assisted in the towing which proceeded until five o'clock when it was deemed advisable to adopt the plan of raising her by cranes.
 Those who took soundings after the submarine was discovered expressed the opinion the vessel was resting on an even keel and was right side up. Oil then was still rising to the surface. Earlier in the afternoon army engineers who had been working on various To- cations, suggested a search in the new spot. Diving bells and other equipment were sent to this spot to renew the search. The new efforts were rewarded in finding the boat. At 6 o'clock tonight the F-4 had been below for thirty three hours
 At eight o'clock tonight the inter- island steamer Claudine left the Pearl Harbor maya! station towing the dredger California which was loaded with heavy chains and other material to be used in raising the submerged craft. Meanwhile tugs are holding fast to the submarine whose position re- malned unchanged. The plan which will be followed in raising her to the surface consists of lowering chains to the F-4. using the signal wire attached to marker buoy as a guide, passing them around the hull and knottine them before hoisting away.