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Show (USER YANKEE IS Ml SECBMB TIME Work of Wreckers Comes to Naught; Duo to the Heavy Seas. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Doc. 5. With onl3' a portion of her forward deck, her funnela and her masts projecting pro-jecting above the water, tho United States cruiser Yankee, which yesterday was iloatcd from tho dangerous Hen and Chicjcons ledgo at the western entrance en-trance to Buzzard's Ba', where she had boon hold for two weeks, rested tonight on tho bottom of Buzzard's Bay not far from Ponikczeo Island, tho stato leper settlement. Although tho Yankco 'b position and condition are most unfavorable, it is tho opinion among wrcckcro nnd naval officers that her raisinc will provo a much less difficult undertaking here than tho feat at tho Hen aud Chickens ledge. Tho latest misfortune to an unfortunate unfortu-nate ship was duo primarily to tho rough water, combined with tho strained and leaky condition of tho cruiser. Towing hawsers connecting , tho Yankco with two tugboats parted ropcatodly, and it was during an endeavor en-deavor to attach another tow line that one of tho tugs was lifted on a great wuvo and smashed against tho sido of tho cruiser, breaking in a port, which allowed tho water to flood tho compartment com-partment whore tho air compressors wero nt work. The water disabled the mnchincry nnd later put out the fires under the boilers which furnished tho power for tho wrecking pumps. No lives wero lost when tho Yankco went down. |