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Show SUBMARINE LIES AT BOTTOMTHE SEA TWENTY-ONE MEN PERISH AS RE- SULT OF ACCIDENT NEAR HONOLULU. Grappling Apparatus Brings up Portions Por-tions of 8unken Craft and Divers Are Working in Endeavor to Locate Vessel, Honolulu. Hope of rnlslng tho United Statos submarine F-4, submerged sub-merged somowhoro outside tho harbor slnco March 25, was again rovivea Sunday night when vosscIb engaged n tho rescito work roported they had llnnlly located tho missing croft In which twenty-one porsons aro believed to liavo perished. Heroic uttenipts to bring to the surface sur-face from a great depth au object that appeared to bo tho Bubmarino resulted re-sulted in tho diBcovory by two divers early Sunday that it was only an old anchor, probably lost by tho battle ship Oregon. The divers went to a dopth of 215 feet, but failed to find any trnco of tho F-4. Refusing to bo disheartened by thlb discovery, hundreds of rescuo workers, work-ers, although tired by their long work and without sleep .for (many hours, redoubled their efforts whon another body, believed to bo tho F-4, was located. Portions of a vesBol's superstructure superstruc-ture have been brought to tho surface by tho grappling apparatus of tho various va-rious .boats and It Is tills which makes the rescuerB confident they aro from tho F-4. Tho positive statement was madb hero Sunday by Naval Constructor Julius A. Furor that tho four 8ubma. rlnes of tho Hawaiian division wore examined as to their stability only a month ago. Ho said that ull wen found In good condition. It is now regarded as certain that nil of tho mouthers of tho crow aro dead. It is bellovcd that tho bodies of most of tho crow will be found in tlio forward compartment, the small-eat small-eat and strongest of the three. Relatives Rela-tives of the crew residing at Honolulu refuse to abandon hope and plendea with tho naval oftlcora to hasten tha work of raising tho crnft. |