Deseret Evening News | 1904-05-23 | Page 8 | Battleship Orel Sinks

OREL diun SINKS I IS nile Due to nn an Accident and Very Little May 22 The battleship Ore Orrl nl l which was waK brought here 1100 days ago ngo to 10 receive her Iler main battery and to lo be b given RIen the th dishing touched before going Into Inlo commission suddenly sank Funk in mil her anchorage on time tho night of or May 20 0 O Vice Ico Admiral HoJI commander In chief of ot tho the squadron was waa Instantly called from Ht and II III Under his the work of ot pumping out and raising the th Orel Orrl Or 1 was w us 11 begun The Th ship hip wits raised this morning and anal Wes MIH found to 10 be 11 undamaged save SnO that hat hather her Interior v was ni filled 1 with dirty salt ater sinter An 11 11 examination showed that hir h r Kingston valves had hod been opened permitting the tho water to rush In It Tl Is 18 suggested that the carelessness of ot a IL orl might have been for tor the tIle of ot tho the valves but bul an nn investigation Into time the affair Is le pro ro While proceeding from 1111 Island Island and al St Bt burg where she inns built to the Orel a rei grounded In tho the Nova and was waa hauled off olf after roii l durable trouble Some Rome of her plates were damaged