Show GROUNDING OF OREGON Beef Where Big Battleship Struck Xnown ns Pinnacle Bock Washington June 30The following dispatches were received at the Navy department relative to the grounding of the Oregon i Chic Foe June 29 Secretary Navy Anchored yesterday dense fog In seventeen sev-enteen fathoms three miles south of How Ke Light GulX of Pe CJtl LI Sent out two boats and sounded least water five and a half fathoms Weather clear Got under way and struck Pinnacle rqck Much watei hx forward compartment com-partment h Perfectly smooth Shall charter steamer If possible at Chic Foo and lighten the dip Rock through side of ship above double bottom about frame 19 Small holes also through bottom of ship WILDE Che Foo 29rSecretary Navy Washington Irja1 gdnerto assist Ore ° V c frxt i RAYMOKD HOCERS Command Nashville WHAT REMFYAELEf rived Brooklyn leaves for Nagasaki The Zafiro at Che Foo has been Sent to assist Oregon reported by i Rogers on a rock south of How Kc light Iris going to her assistance i REMEY WHERE BATTLESHIP GROUNDED The point ihere the Oregon grounded ground-ed Is fifty miles northwest of Che Foe Taku Is 130 miles west of Pinnacle rock where she struck Pinnacle rock IK about twentyfive feet hjgh and lies three and twothirds miles south of Hawk Island and about a mile and a quarter N N E of the island of Slao Lit Shan The rock Is encircled by a shoal and should not be approached nearer than three cables MENACE TO NAVIGATORS According to the hydrographl bureau bu-reau officials there is a strong current of from three to five knots speed always al-ways prevalent in this vicinity and this fact together with the dense fog that prevailed at the time greatly enhanced en-hanced the danger of navigating tho Oregon The officials of the naval hydrographers ofilce say there is a great rise and fall of tide al this point about ten feet and It is possible that the Oregon may have been lifted this way and set afloat without assistance WILDES STATEMENT VAGUE I Capl Wildes statement of the inJuries in-juries sustained by the Oregon Is scarcely sufficient to enable naval constructors con-structors here lo form a definite opinion opin-ion as to the prospects of saving the famous ship They say however lint the ship can probably bo saved If the weather docs not become rough but unfortunately this is the season of storms in Chinese vatcrs At I the request of the Secretary of the Navy the Stale department today sent a message to the Russian Government at St Petersburg asking permission to bring the Oregon to Port Arthur to be docked there hi the event that the shlp can be floated as that point in the nearest Jock of sufficient size to dock the ship and it Is part of lie navy yard possessions of the Russian Govern Gov-ern men I It may bo said that from the fact set out in Capt Wllders cablegram the officials are not inclined to censure him He was under orders to hurry warranting the assumption of risk lie appears to have observed all of the usual precautions possible under shore orders and it is known that the charts of that section are inadequate Mr Wu the Chinese Minister said today thai this particular spot was a graveyard of shipping |