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Show OFFICIAL REPORT ON DOCK ACCIDENT WAKHINOTON. Fab. 19. Injury sustained bv tke great drydock at Pearl harbor kas hern reported to tke nnvy department in a Jtief cablegram from Rear Admiral Cowles, commandnnt of I tke station. It is feared tke disaster I will kave tke effect to completetv thwart tke plans of tke engineers to I kave tkis dock opened for aaval ties j by tke data of completion of the Pna' asna canal. It 1, understood thnt tke tattnm of tke dork kai been forced up las tke water was pumped ont, fndirat ; ing tke insecurity of tke fanadation. 4a far about oae million and a quarter dollars kas baea expended on the dock. |