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BURK CO jii CHAS THt'UM AN A CO CUtlltrs Hitters ari furnishers COLH BCtUHNu tabu thur Street i ww 1 Csarry TOLUME XXII THURSDAY MOBUXNC FEBRUABY 17 1898 NUMBER 7742 APPALLING NATURE OF THE AINE TER GIVES GROUND FOR SfJSPICI OF TRE ACHERY eeoeeeoeeeoeeoeeoooeeoeo o--s- Some Plain Talk at Washington IWReport From the Commander blithe Hi-Fated Vessel Leaves of a Torpedo Exploded Agents of the Exasper 1 Officials Clouded With Some Doubt ated Spanish Capt Sigsbee's Brief Advices Give I Only a Faint Idea of the Horror Officers of the Navy Department in Private Express a Firm Opinion That a Diabolical Plot iced When 253 Brave joxpener Met Their Death Caused the Tragedy is Telegram Considered by the Presi Messages From Lee and Sigsbee Pointing Out Reasons For Olmer ME de! Cabinet Officials-After Feeling Fail to Shake the Deliberation the Idea lf oending a Warship Belief-War Talk Is Aroused Abandoned THE SECOND-CLASS BATTLESHIP MAINE jkA-aks j-JtAiiitaiAai wwwr TO Feb The Rsvry HAVANA Feb Irt fro of IT Inlal nnmlier of the crew "of RAISED PUBLIC MEN EXPRESS IDEAS dehrls tnoetly vrork for divers aorr Jenkins nnd Merrltt still kiijir for tnelr safety Ttiovp kuovta to be saved arei Oltteera 24 unlajareatf aawvr 1 wonnded board Ward its steamer la dtp hospital aad tel 8t so far as kasvra All other Want tv( on board or near the Maine Total lost arlBiaar XXI Willi several exeats Maine slightly listed to port and all forward of the massive cranes for unloading the ship's boats have completely disappeared Tbe nig funnels lie flat upon the twisted and gnarlod iron biaeea and pieces of steel deck From the funnels aft the ship wweas to be intact She has settled until the water has covered the of her superstructure and the stern searchlight ad the rapid fire gun looks over 'a water ust below thm 7 "Meet If net all the bodies will be re Olivette yen are authorised to purchase the necessary articles and give out" Capt Slgabee baa reported in answer to a cable message of Inquiry that the following officers and men were saved from the Maine: Capt Slashes Lieut Commander Wainwrlght Lieut Holman Lieut Hood Ueut Jungen Lieut Blow Surgeon 8 Hetieberger Paymaster Ray Chief Engineer Howell UM-J J- Blaaden Chaplain Chid wick tossed Assistant Engineer Bow THE WM Str(nrni lo-muhi received lfoMoWltkart ft "HA VARA Erery one except nlnr plMfi ease iMuiii' on tuur'i Hb)e asA'teveatr-nv-e wrisulr te ended retaoaed to Key West by Hpfjttt ksmbk WASHINGTON Feb After a day of Intense excltsaaent at tit Navy Department and elsewhere growing out of the destruction of the battleship Maine In Havana harbor last the situation to KSPIXSKM OM THE MM DE- itn i en were savresL Cunt Slarabee interviewed tnie ev enlngr by tbe correspondent ef tbe gage tinted Press with referasxe the eaase of the expleoion aatdi "1 raaaet determine tbe eatawe but compel ii i Investlarator will decide whether tbe explosion vena produced from aa Interior or exterior cause I eexnot any anything nntll after sueb un Inveatlaratlon ha been made I will not and cannot cos-srlentlously anticipate tbe decision nor do I wlab to make aay tuajaat estimate of the reason for the disaster" i er though tbe last theory finds little sup- part "Pm in f- Pltifnl Appestla The list of survivors that came to the Navy Department this afternoon in answer to telegrams was Inaccurate and made out the loea of life eight more than the summary originally given by Capt Sigsbee in an earlier telegram so Secretary Long telegraphed tor another corrected list and alto one that should show who were and who were not wounded of the survivors It was found necessary to do this owing to tbe great number of pitiful appeals for Information as to the safety of some unfoi lunate on the Maine that came from all parts of tbe country It Is said at the Navy Department that this disaster Is the greatest of the kiod in OriXIMP AP TO 1 HE CACSsS OF THF I AWPVL CALAMITY D1F FEB WIDELY HHUli BY OFFICERS WHO ers Lieut Marines A ratlin Assistant Engineer ft Morris Naval Cadets Holden Cluveriua Bronson Washington covered Two bodies were reeoverd this forenoon A vigilant lockout is being kept for bodies -illP Out of 59 inlured not over four are likely to dte The following sailor are In Ban Am-hros'o All but three dll live one man could sot give Ms same: "Bat Crooln New York Vm MeGlnnls accident Seems impossible night after the exchange of a number of WATER RUSHED OVER SAILORS blegrams between Waabington and Ha tiona no omeer nor man ho more than part of a salt of elotltlna and that Is wet with Bulbar water Ward steamer leaven tar stealee at ft this afteri on Officers savest are naln-Jt red On nate wax In eoaapart-aneats of crew Am prepariaa to telenrapb list of wounded nnd saved ttllvett leave foe Key Wed at ni Will send by her to Key West the officers saved except myself and Wslrwrlarbt Holman Hennebersrer Bay aA Holdea Will tarn ever Mi- nalojnred boats to captain at port with request for snfc keeping III send all wounded men to hospital at Havana Slateed) ns can be am I up in the words of retary Ing When asked as be was Consrivatlve Go That Fur While More Impalslve Ones Talk ef Treachery aad War Only Few of Theut Ever Oat From BMn sinful Mgp A i I i refe A Crenshaw aad Boyd Boatswain Larkin Gunner Hill Carpenter Helm Paymaster Clerk McCarthy Men: Redon Larson Hallbtrg Bullock Melville Wlllla Galpin Kushida Noppin Turpin Harris Luts Jertson Holland Herbert Me-Devttt Foley Hotchlns Scbwarts Richards Teacklr Flynn Dresseler David Miebeison Sohman Fox Wilbur Waters Anderson Chrlttlanann Koehler Ericsson Mack Will-lama White Pauls Coffee Allen Roe Crontn Cahill Kane Jernee A Smith Shea Hemes Heffron Bloomer Johnson Bergman Mattison A Jobnson Pllcber Holtxer Loftus MeGlnnls Matblaseo Fnrnen Good Darklns Ran McNair Oabrelle A it lion Senetch A Koeae Benjamin McKay ut to depart far tee day whether he Boston John Soffey Boston A Halleo Brooklyn James Ret New York: Francisco Maeeachusetts Jo Kcena Boston Fred Gerne New Brunswick Charles A Smith Jeremiah Shea Alfred Hern Norway: Bloomer Portland Alt Johnson Sweden: Edward MaUaea Swedes George Fox Grand Raplda Mich It Wilbur A Erleson Swden John White Brooklyn John Hfffrtn Brooklyn Fred Hollar New (1 reason to suspect that tbe disaster a the work of aa enemy he replied: NEW YORK Feb 16 A speilal copyright I do not In that I am Influenced by WASHINGTON Feb Senator of Alabama a member of tbe on Foreign Relations said: cable to tha Evonlng World from Havana mil fact that Capt ttgsbee baa not yet re ed to the Nary Department on the York Matteson Bay City Mich Judum St Uj Is Allen Brooklyn" "SIOSHKK" Among the matters discussed by the President and members of the Cabinet was the question of the expediency of immediately sending one or more warships -o THE ONLY It! 1 111 A TORPHW WORK Special Dispatch to The American AMERICAN OFFICE REGENT HOTEL WASHINGTON Feb An addl-tlonal light la being thrown on the circumstances surrounding the destruction ef the battleship Maine The Impression Increases that it was the result of a torpedo exploded by Spaniards Although this view cannot be definitely proven now naval experts here ridicule the idea that the explosion was natural Senator Perkins ot California an old sailor and a man thoroughly acquainted with the construction of battleships scouts the idea that It was an accident "There is" said he "not one chance In a thousand tl at the Maine waa blown up Havana to take the place of the Maine naval history since the sinking of the big British warship Victoria by collision with the Cumperdown in the Mediterranean oft Malta in June 1893 By that accident the British Admiral commanding 22 officers and 336 men lost their lives The Spanish Legation was early advised of the horror by Capt Gen Blanco who expressed his profound regret and added that the occurrence was a chance accident the undoubted cause being an explosion of the boiler of the dynamo This was the only specific cause assigned from an official source during tbe day tha otficjss at the Maine stats the explosion nan Jgi the central magazine and that the Main wa railed out of the water and then weeS partially to pieces Tbe dispatch con-tmfll: 1B but the surgeon were in the ward room ni" mcaacat of the explosion Then eame the stup' cm shock All the oft iers below rushed on Seek but could get no further forward than the mtidle superstructure on deck Only a Very pitiable few of the jackles Hi ar Great Saaaoan Disaster HeealleA by tilmlral Belknap RxnlsktBlS "In the absence of definite information as to the causes aud result of the Maine catastrophe 1 would not venture an opinion upon it If it was an accident as the first dispatches seem to indicate It was most deplorable If it was due to treachery as sem are Inclined to believe it was moat heinous and no penalty would be too severe for those responsible for it' But whether the calamity was due to accident or treachery I should like to see Intro- and the conclusion is understood to have the Maine Horror been reached that at present such a cours WASHINGTON Feb 16-The only parallel to the Maine horror In the history of tha was not desirable At about 1:30 o'clock it was authoritatively stated at the White Why He Thinks So BOSTON Feb Rear Admiral George Belknap United States Navy retired said to-day he waa Inclined to think the Maine was blown up by a torpedo "I do not see" he said "how an explosion of the forward msgasine could have occurred The keys of the magaslnes are always kept in the custody of the Captaiu All tbe ammunition ia carefully cased mostly in the ever got from beiow The wat ir rushed over cause He is evidently waiting to write full report 8 long as be does not express himself 1 certainly cannot I abould think from the Indications however that there was) an that the magazine exploded How that came about I do not know Far the present at least no other warship will be sent to Havana Tbe appalling nature of the disaster and the gravity of the situation that would arise should Investigation give a basis for the undercurrent of suspicion of trearherr and foul ply that nig through all minds bad A sobering effect on public men of all shades of political opinion The fact stands forth and la little less than re nitea states navy waa the great amoan disaster in March 18S9 wbeu four officers aad forty-six men of the Pacta Coast squadron lost their lives in a hurricane which swept the harbor of Apia Samoa and surrounding waters March 15 and 16 When this hurricane )ooooxxxooocej House that the Information so far received Indicated that the loss of the Maine was tbe result of an accident and that In the absence of evidence to the contrary this should be assumed to be tbe fact Secretary Long returned to the White House early in the afternoon and remained with the President for some time started there were In the harbor of Apia the following men of war: Tbe United States steamship Trenton Vandalla and Nlpaic: the si i tn of accident There baa them Is next to Impossible If as the dls- I Uritish ship Calliope and the German vessels DuBosc the Spanish Charge called at the State Department to express his profound regret and the entire Spanish staff left their cards at tbe Navy Department as a mark of personal condolence At all of the foreign establishments there been treachery somewhere It would have Adier Olga and Bber and a few merchant patches state the whole I ow of the ship was saua and small craft blown off It la apparent that the explosion MIWIW OFFICERS Admiral Klmberly commanding tbe naval could not have been caused by the boilers forces made the Department a long report or tne coai getting heated I do not sec on the disaster In which he showed tha bow It could have occurred from tha paint room as every precaution is taken to pre notwithstanding tbe utmost efforts oh tbe off! vent the collection of explosive gases In the was the deepest interest and solicitude over the affair The disaster Is remarkable in that only feomethlB About Ueut Jenklnn nnd Engineer Merrltt WASHINGTON Feb J-fhe two offwers unaccounted for and whom It Is feared are dead are Lieut tjunlor grade) Icnklns and Assistant Engineer Darwin Merrltt palntrroom and If such an explosion occurred cers and men and a display of most expert seamanship the Vaodalla and the Nlpaic were wrecked on a reef The Vandalla lost four been impossible for such Injury to have come from explosion within ship At that hour of night the magazines are always dosed There are no electrical connections with them They are so arranged that concussion would have no effect upon them and at that hour ot night with the ship lying peacefully in barber there waa nbsolutely no reason why tbe magazine should have been touched by a soul on it would have been more likely to have caused WA8HINGT0X Feb Ih- follow in- cUo(rrai was rereiTed by the State Department from Consul (raaeral Lee at 9:16 to-niUt: HAYAN Feb Profound sorrow expressed by Gorernment gad mnnicipal authorities consols of forei(fg nations organized bodies of all sort and eltigeua generally Flags at half mast on Governor General's pglaee en shipping in barber nnd in city "Basiness suspeuded theatres closed 'Dead number nhont 360 "Officers' quarters being in the rear and seamen's forward where explosion took place accounts for greater proportional loss of tailors "Funeral to-morrow at 3 "Officers Merrltt and Jenkins still mtsslnp tappose on ask that a Haral Court of Inquiry be held to ascertain cause of explosion "Hope our people will repress excitement and calmly await decision LK1 a tire than destroy tbe skap two officers ldst their lives and those were Hear Admiral He knap said It was a rv officers and thirty-nine men the Nipsif eeven men and the Trenton one man whose bead was smssbed by an accident aboard ship The markable that not a single resolution was Introduced or a single speech made in either house of Congress save one of condolence with the families of the killed adopted by the House Of Representatives jpublic men expressed their opinions with yVserve when approached for Interviews but everywhere there was a demand for Investigation and fall details In the of jun'or gradej They were Lieut Friend significant thing that the Maine should hare Jenkins and Assistant Engineer Dar blown up In that particular harbor at this particular time In tbe absence of Informa- Mr Jenkins was born in Allegheney City June 26 1885 and was appointed raval cadet Sept 28 1882 by Representative Thomas Hayne of the Twenty-third Congressional I'lstrkt After a short cruise on the Atlanta he was graduated June 1888 after which he served successively on the Galena Kearsarue win Merrltt The former wae unmar lon as to tbe cause of the explosion be Admiral'a report nhowed that the Aril had been thrown high up on a reef aad was careened on her side that the Olga had been beached In a good position' He said the Eber was nowhere to be seen aad reported that the Calliope having successfully run out of the rled but leaves a mother and slater The thought It was most significant Indication in the whole matter i latter It is thought also was unmarried end Swatara He was next attached to the ritoroi NO SYMPATHY roast survey and served It until February tight of which the horror may be Justly slewed Many Theor leg Secretary Long undoubtedly summarized Expressed hy the President to the but the department was unadviaed con cerning his family A 4n the Cabinet The President and several of hia Cab iswi wacn ne was again ordered to sea on the gunboat Bennington From June 1893 to September 1885 be was on ordnance duty Men of tbe Maine WASHINGTON Feb 16-At II o'clock ni me wavai rroving areuaea Indian Head Secretary Long rrcelved the following un Inet associates held an extended conference Md and in September 1895 he waa ordered to the battleship Maine and has since been attached to that vessel with the exception of board "I know the ship and I know its commander Every man of his crew was a monitor unto himself and no man can make me believe the Maine was not tha victim of treachery I cannot see how this awful thing can come from within the shin herself" Said Senator Thurston: "It Is a serious matter and I cannot help thinking that the Maine went to the bottom as (he result ot an act on tbe part of those Inimical to America It may be cruel to even the general opinion of the majority of the naval experts In finding It Impossible Just harbor durlnj tbe beginning of tbe storm had returned ahowlnx signs of having experienced heavy weather In reporting on the disaster Admiral Kimberly said: "During the entire time Capt Farquhar showed great care and good Judgment in handling the ship through this terrific ga)e and never left the bridge He waa ably seconded by his executive and navigating oleeers who did all In their power to save the ship In tact so far as I could observe all the officers behaved extremely well under tho trying circumstances and performed their duties cheerfully effectively and as well as abou npojj It was not a Cabinet meeting signed telegram from Havana: "Only two officers unaccounted for The explosion was forward To all indications the maa3lne ex a snort interval in the spring of iw He them and nrsay were stunned and drowned now to state the cause at the destruction as no notices had been sent out and only reached his ptesent giade of Junior Lieutenant but not raaiafM ploded but cannot tell until an Investigation Is the Maine There are a great number In January lEJli He had many friends in this city and waa regarded as a most capablo and had Tho sentry on the poop oeck reports that Secretary of the Navy Long Secretary Gage Attorney General Griggs Postmaster General Gsry and former Attorney erni'lcnt ofneer there were no boots In tho vicinity when tho 3 "J) ofScers on deck narrowly escaped In the Junior officers' truss all had to clamber out Utrotjgh water aad wreckages waist deep One ladder from the after torpedo compartment Assistant Engineer Merrltt was born at xi'loei-n oc uired Red Oak Montgomery County lowa April Another telegram tr Secretary Loo frasa duced in Congress a Joint resolution providing for the Immediate construction of two battleships equal in size and equipment to the Maine anil costing not a dollar leas than tbe ill-fated Maine cost Action of that kind would indicate to the world that whenever or wherever one of our tentacles waa cut off two would at once grow In Us place "tt seems almost out of question that it was the result ot an accident It if usual for a ship ot tbe Maine's class to wis Jammed with men struggling up for lit General MrKenna were present Tbe dls aster to the Maine was the only topic cob Oeorge Bronson Rea said ito be a newspacor All agree that a doubfe explosion occurreJ suspect that the destruction of the Maine corrcsponoem saio: rn exrtement All quiet Only feelings of sympathy find sorrow for the aeci'-'ttit" from the notural result ot an ui it r-water ex I tost on of the magazine" sidtred It was determined to abandon the reception at the White House to-night Another teltgram received at the NavV Be and also the recejptlon to the general pub The dtsfateh says that the account of tho rrsseagort of the Ward Line steamer City lic to-morrow night of Watiirgton which was lying 300 yards carry her magazines in her bow where the explosion seems to have occurred But 1 can aay nothing of that now I cannot from the Maine bears cut Abe foregoing state- About 11 jb'OocU the Cabinet officers came from he President's office One of of theories but most of ttoem arc of a fcaracter that makes it eney to prove or upset them by a single Injreetlgatlrm by a liver Secretary Long has taken immediate tens to make this investigation Late his afternoon he telegraphed to Admiral Heard at Key West to appoint a board naval officers to proceed at once to Hlavana employ divers anal generally to nake such inquiry as the regulations of he navy demand shall be made In the see ot the lore of a hip 0 i It Is expected that this work will take ene time and while there are officers rhc- say that In their opinion It will not possible owing to the prehehly disrupted condition of the bull of the ship to lake out the cause of the explosion the meat Continuing the cable adds: rartment staled that the missing would probably number Secretary Long for the President has sent tbls telegram to Cant Slgsbea: "Sigsbee I' Meiae flavins: President desires ine to ex ires for himself aud tha people of ths United States hie profound sjm-pathy with the officers and crew of the Maine and desires that no expense be spared In providing for tbe survivors and tbe rsre of tho desd (Signed) "fOIIN LONG Secretary" gueaa and speculate It fat an awful calanir My Let us await the particulars" them stated that the Prealdent bad given "Brass pipe angle iron etc fell In a shower on the ucks of tho City of Washington ro injuring two toe to that when lowered they Senator Perkins of California who hns directions that all official Information re came from the outside but no ether explanation seems to fit the esse" Officers at ibe Navy Department concur In tho above expression of opinions in private conversation They say frankly that from the evidence thusi far received there Is little doubt that tho Maine waa destroyed by Spaniards If these assumptions are true it means war Upon this naval officers aud publle men all agree No Indemnity that Spain oeaJd pay would satisfy the people of this country JK The result of the investigation which baa already been commenced Is therefore lating to the disaster should be given to been a navigator all his life and knows thoroughly the every detail in the con were useless Out of the dense smoke came an rulsht-d crlw tor bolp Slrcultaneoualy with the pujplic He added that a private dig struction and handling of ships said: patch to Sfretaiy Long signed Rea I cannot conceive such an explosion as that which in reported to have wrecked SOI TH ERA MKX the Maine could have resulted from an the Their tfnnics Appear Amon Mated that the loss was over 270 but this was n'Wflklal and Mr Long considered the estimate ton high This Was before Capt Slgsbee'a dispatch placing the lost and missing at 253 was Maine' omeeva WASHINGTON Feb The following is a list of tha efflctrs of the Maine with their addresses as far as obtainable at thaaNavy CAPT SIOSBEB Commander of the Mahw the cewatlor of falling fragments search lights were thrown on the wreck and its lead of agony Spanish boats from the shore Joined those of the Washington alongside at once but the regular ferry boats pawing Soon attar the exptostor did not stop to oiler aid "I have JuH seen twenty-nine sailors of the Maine sllnliy erdtirlng the lorture caused ly rowder-sklnned feces and bodfee broken bones and mangled fletsh They are being well cared for In the military hospital at fan Ambrosio het The less severely Injured men are yet cn the steamship City of Washington "Tha wverely woandrd men will have tbe beet Of attention also from the men and Women Of the American colony All the injurod men shew gnat grit You cannot hear a whimper from cne of tbe twenty-nine swathed form in t'an Ambrosio Hospital nor from in ii Capt Charles Tt Sigsbee Washington: Mend-riant Cenmander Rleba-d Wainwrlght anbf be desired This disaster I eJasntfy being watched with great Interest Late to-night the news from Havana seems lo Indicate that the officials there belleer the destruction of the Maine to have been purely accidental although the naval authorities hero still refuse lo accept this theory Telegrams received late to-night frum among the Incidents and accidents Inseparable accident The chances it seems to me are ftttS in 1000 that the calamity did not result from accident It has been suggested that the explosion might have occurred while ammunition was being handled but that is scarcely credible aa ammunition on a warship lying at anchor is not handled at 10 o'clock at night The discipline of both officers and men on the Mhir: a well as on every other vessel Is such that the explosion could not have been canned by any action ej any one of them 1 am firmly of the belief that tho horror in Havuua harbor last night was not duo lo accident I can scarcely conceive elt'ier that it was due to the treachery of Spanish officials or waa brought through their cognisance However Washington LltUt Holman California Ueut tohn Hcod Florence Ala: Lieut Carl Jungen New York City: Lleuts (Junior grade) Blow LaSallc 111 Tobn from the prosecution of duty Its magnitude however gives it a distinguished feature whlchyjgoitunaiely the service Is rarely compelled lo witness" JOHN LONG Secretary of the Mawak pinion of the majority Is that the ques-lon will -be easily settled by the simple bservatlon of the condition at the ship's all plates iu tbe tv-'bihborhondef the hole hlch sunk her whether or net they are ulged out aa wouM bo tho agso if the (plosion came from Hir Inside or whrth- they are driven In wi -Id rrrili from le attack of a torpedo or the explosion of mine beneath tbe' ship Tbe large majority of naval efftVer are cllned to the belief (hat the explosion suited from a spontaneous combuM ion Blandin Greenwood Vd Jenkins Allegheny City Pa Naval Cadets Cluye-rlus Jr Lculalana: Anion Bronsoq Nebras t2 ldTlHe was appcintfd to the nsval aad- at hand The Cabinet officers stated that there were many evidences that the disaster was the result of accident Consul General Lee had cabled that the Spanish authcrjtlee had expressed to him their pro-fouudrcgrct at the occurrence At while Secretary Lang was still with the President Mr Finney private secretary of the Secretary of the Navy was admitted with an important dispatch Just rece'ved from Capt Sigsbee commander Ot the Maine This was read by the President and Secretary and thru given out as follows: Slgsbee'a Dispatch utvls xrurilnK wt'eeklns vetael at once (nine submersed emy Bept 111 1881- graduating at tha head of ''9ftss s35c55 ONES ka Boyd Jr Alabama: Surgeon Heaebergar Harrisonburg Va Parmat-r bla elaas four years later He west to sea Consul General Lee and Cspt Sigsbee indicate' that they are inclined strongly to Hay WMhlngton Cblef Engineer on the Amidiltilte md waa subsfuuently transferred to tbe Indiana receiving big final bore anywhere else Ce pt labee Furnishes a Wet Howell Ooalien Past Assistant Kn- the belief that tbe explosion was of In Fur a Known graduation July 1 1897 After a abort Service gineer Bowers Brooklyn Assist "Tbe heavy rainfall which Immediately followed lust night's horror still continues in a dreary dismal drltcle Out in tbe bay Ilea WASHINGTON' Feb lS-Thl afte tne NW York Navy Yard he was ordered ant Engineers Morris Oregon Mo Dw- ternal origin Both agree that the of It waa In the forward part of the to the battleship Maine Sept in isi and Secretary Long sent the following dls wln It Merrltt Red Oak Ia Engineer Cadets lias since beui attached to that lll-datcd ves to Commandant Forsyth at Key West: Pope Wasnlrgton North Carolina: Arthur coal bunker tbe ovcireiHrisVof the Iran urtittotu between 9t the situation In Havana la sjo critical and the Spanish feci so keenly what appears to many of them an affront Hi I' tlie Maine should have been in the harbor that it (Ciutinud oo Eighth l'aga) Key Crenshaw Alabama Chaplain OWwlck nd this it borne out by the tbe wreck of tb once proud Ma Her teel upper 'i forward ha been completely lifted and turnd over on her starboard side None Admiral Slcard ordered to come to I'trit Lieutenant sel Although bis naval service has been short It Is said at the Department to have been sxtremtly creditable West with ship and serve out clot hi as the JBr croho' scaalo or from the expl essary Should at ut lbs big guns In the turrets are visible Tb.