Show HIT SHOALS OFF CULEBRA Captain of or Battle Battleship Path lathi for Passage Cho c Dangerous Washington Feb C. C PrIvate G.-PrIvate Private advices advices ad ad- vices received In Washington from th the West Vest Indies make male it appear that the recent lecent accident Jo o the battleship Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- in which she touched bottom and was damaged to an inconsiderable extent was not due ue to her hr touch touching ng ngan an uncharted shoal as has be been n stated but that it in the official dispatches was due dUO to an unwise preventable and ancl apparently unexplainable choice of om Captain Captain Cap Cap- route b by her commanding eel tam tain William Swift in his approach S to Culebra Vessels of deep draught almost In Invariably in in- Culebra outside of variably approach th tho shoals giving giving- them a wide berth I The Connecticut however took a narrow narrow nar nar- row passage between Grampus shoals nn and Culebrita reef reet and although broad daylight the tho captain mistook the black buoy marking marking- tho the Grampus shoals to be the rod buoy on and his vessel Into shoal water valer where she be st struck uck bottom holtom It II Is understood that Admiral Evans is conducting a court of inquiry or other form mm of or Investigation Into Inlo the tho circumstances of the accident accident- |