Show INQUIRY OflifliltEDS ORniEltED S Court of Inquiry Will Meet in Xerr York OP Wednesday WASHINGTON Nov Secretary Herbert ordered the following court of inquiry on the accident to the baliife ship Texas Commodore J N lIik now commandant of Ifae Boston navy yard Chief Ensvieer W W 3I ng1ner Duncan tine senior officer of his corps now inspector in-spector of machinery at Cramps and Naval Constructor J F Hanircom with Lieutenant B T Wailing as judge advocate ad-vocate The Colt will meo at 12 i navy yard New York at 1 nvy yar p m Wednesday The only additional information the navy department has received C < s con tii ctl ii I th foLwIng telegram from I Commodore Sifcard A section d texan ttarboard machinery ma-chinery was removed fee repairs aoJ the pipe to seaward was blanketed off o jut jioide of the cnain injechon vaive just above the floor plates This mom ing about 6 oclock Hie yoke turough which the stem t the injection valve passed broke under ihe of brl pressure o the I wciier outsltta acid the sea wa t fj3l the starboard enfri f or TrpTin fr > t I I thence leaked through tie dosed watertight I water-tight doors and giKKiary h h u port engine comportment Ship nI flooded in other pants The ship settled down unca the scfh bottom heading south and now lies easily sit high water in 25 feet of water port sude and 29 starboard side secured So cob dock I just south of Vermont stern and listed about ELX degrees to starboard < Two tugs of the Chapman Wrecking company are alongside pumping and a diver is down in the starboard engine en-gine room endeavoring to stOP the leak Narkeeca is in atcerduree the Ninas boilers are repailng so she cannot be used Dry dock No 2 is being prepared peprE t receive the Texas as soon as the leak i stopped Further details wH be wired as soon as obtainableSIGARD SIGARD I appears from this tlhat tho usual precautions prescribed the preutans prcrdbed by regulations regula-tions were observed by those in chartro of the work involved blanking off the cGm tons and as the workmen hail left the valve aU right Saturday I The accident occurred early this morning morn-ing before work was begun and indicates indi-cates that the yoke gave way to < rie oneton pressure that had been upon it for about 36 hour The reference to I the naval tugs Narkeeta and Nina is taking as explaining why outside tugs were Cal d upon in the emergency tug I The battleship Texas was floated this evening She will be docked tomorrow I |