Show I Ills SnccesHor i I Washington May 10Colonel W P Craighill has been appointed to succeed BrigadierGeneral Casey as chief of the I engineers of the United States I engneers i Colonel Wm B Craighill who was ap i pointed today chief of engineers of the I army was born In Virginia and graduated gradu-ated from the Military Academy at West I Point in 1853 ranking second In a das of fiftytwo In 1S63 he was appointed chief engineer of the department of the Monongahela and was breveted lieuten antcolonel for services at the defense of Cumberland Gap His subsequent serv ser ices have been principally on defensive works of the harbors of San Francisco New York and Baltimore and Is now in charge of the rivers and harbors in Mary I land Virgina West Virginia and Delaware Dela-ware with headquarters at Baltimore I |