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Show INQUIRY BOARD T0JUIESTIG11TE naval mw Death List Now Placed at 23, With One Body Re coered and Twenty-two Still Unaccounted For BODIES BELIEVED' WASHED, TO SEA Explanations Will Be Required Re-quired of Commanders; Orders Came From Ship Delphy to Alter Course ANTA BARRABA. Cal,' Bapt. 11. A board of Inquiry with. Rear Admiral W. V. Pratt aa Ma eentor member, waa Pcted at th scene of seven wracked destroyirs at I Honda. 7i mllsa north of bar to-1 y. to Invaatlcata the disaster! which enat the Uvea of twenty -three enlisted men. and set a record for peaoe-tlme naval losses. . Th death list waa placed at twenty-throe last nlcbt with the official announcement that "twenty-two men were miaalna and one dead. Th possibility that the tin-recovered tin-recovered oodles may hav been wept sut to era was given added atrvneth today when Lloutensnt 1 at th ecene of tha wreck aald he believed no bod lea remained on tha destroyer Toun(. It waa thought th men were trapped in the lower docks of th Tounr aa ah turned turtle after the wreck, but lieutenant Le says all vessels ves-sels were searched before they were deserted after tha wreck. Th unofficial list show that three bodlea war recovered from the.eurf near tha wrecet yeeterday. Of th Injured la hospital her and at auui UlsfO, It la believed all wlH reoovsr. The Inquiry will Involve aiplana-rtone aiplana-rtone from the com manners of the veeeele which went aahore la the to- last Baturday nlht while erutalna at 1 knots an hour la a heavy fo- from Baa Franclso to Saw Dleao. ' l ' - At Ban rtleso. th naval base, where S eurv Ivors, ofr'ear and ims ara auartered. It waa aemlof-ficially aemlof-ficially reported last nl(ht that the eedora to rhanae courses waa given from the Delphy. leading the orula-era, orula-era, before th craft baA reached Point Anruello. The order ta ro-oanlaed ro-oanlaed by eeaaoned marinera as fnm not uaually given until after vessels moving off the California coast eouthbound, siear the Ar-guello Ar-guello light, aa the coast lin juta aharply Into ths Pacific just north of tha lighthouse. , ENGLISH PAPERS , SHOW SYMPATHY. LONDON, Bept 11. Stories of th disaster to ths American destroyer de-stroyer off the California coast have dlaplaced th Japanese earthquake earth-quake oa th first page of London newspapers which also print sympathetic sym-pathetic editorials In reference to the catastrophe and exproa regret at the loea of life. Most of the comment Is Incllnead to accept the theory ef soma formidable for-midable change In the oceanic forces which threw the navigators off their bearings. The Times says: "Oreat Britain's sympathy for Japan haa already been expressed In word and kind by all classes; equally widespread will be tbe sympathy of th natloa who horn la on th water with th nation na-tion whoes flsst wsa the closest companion of eur fleet In the great war and which now haa Buffered ao atrange and so grievous a loss." BANTA BARBARA. Cal.. Bept. 11, Th Paclfia mall liner Cuba Is etraniied en a reef near Point Don-sett, Don-sett, en the westerly edge of Baa Miguel Island. The hulk wss lorated yesterday by Captain U Curtis, a representative representa-tive of a New Tork salvage firm. A. B. Moneatr, upertntendent of engineering for the Paclflo Mall company and Cecil Brown of th Board of Marin underwriters. They returned from the wreck late last night In a power boat. Captain Holland and four members mem-bers of the crew are on the Island and are Irving la an nbandoned fisherman's hut whll standing fuard over th wreck. All of the 2.100.000 tn allver bullion th vee-ael vee-ael carried has been taken from th hulk and la nrout to Ban Francesco Fran-cesco on a United State deatroyer. The tss so cargo of eofre is lost Th Cub Is entirely out ef water on th reef and no hope of ealvag-Ing ealvag-Ing her la entertained, according to the party who located her today. The first mutch water that sweeps around th Island Is almost euro to carry th vessel off the reef and to ths bottom, according to Captala Curtia, Her holds ar full of water. |