Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-15 | Page 3 | Milwaukee May Never be Floated

MILWAUKEE MAY NEVER REFLOATED U. S. Protected Cruiser Goes Ashore and Is Abandoned . When Stanchions Give Way. Eureka, Pal. Jan. 14. The United States protected rrulper Milwaukee, j which went ashore on Samoa beach I near here early yesterday while try Ing to pull off the stranded sub'ma rine H-3, cannot be refloated, It was announced Jiere today by J. D. Fra-ser, Fra-ser, expert mechanical engineer, who at the solicitation of Lieut W. F. Newton New-ton in command, today made a survey sur-vey of the cruiser Fraser, using candles to light the way and accompanied by Lieutenant Newton and members of hts staff, made a thorough investigation of the vessel and upon his return to shore stated thai there was no chance of floating the ship. He said the -tnn chiona haci begun to gtve wa, which would indicate that the vessel soon Mould go to pieces rleavj weather during the next tew i means the doom of the cruiser, l i. ser told the ships officers. It was said that a romporary pier wouid be built out to the Milwaukee and that ordnance, machinery and other mo-ables mo-ables wou'd be stripped from the cruiser as quickly as possible. Work of salvaging the submarine was turned over today to a private i,.ot n-F-ioa nf tic nnn Lieu I Newton said today facfois responsible re-sponsible for tin- beaching of the Milwaukee Mil-waukee were a dense fog, strong current cur-rent and u.e ding of the heavy line attached to the H-3. The conduct of the Milwaukee's men was splendid in every particular," I,,- -aid "and tin i escue work ashore was efficiently n lnaieu. The paymaster of the Milwaukee relumed re-lumed to the ship this morning and broughl off JTa.OOO. Personal effects of the officers and men also were removed. re-moved. Had He Milwaukee been able more quiekh to eat olf the steel cable running run-ning to the H-3 she might have been saved, ii was admitted here today by hav men. As it was it was necessary to use cold chisels to cut the cable away.