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Weather Indications: FAIR; COLD. WORLDS CIRCULATED YESTERDAY VOL. XXXVIII. NO 13,330. Weather Indications: FAIR: COLO Circulation Books Open to All.

1 WORLDS CIRCMTED YESTERORY opyrlfflit, IiV tlio Inis Company, New York World, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 180S. 1 ft 1 M'- CK.XT III Grcnler Ynrk unit CHjr. 1 itt.H.V'iiJ '('I'U'O CENTS oul.ililu of Grciilcr XiMr Ynrk rind Cfly nnil on trnlni. Sent a Capt. Sigsbee and Consul-General Lee Are i Special Tug, With Submarine Divers, to Havana to an Immediate Court of Si SIGSBEE, IN A SUPPRESSED DESPATCH TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT, SAYS THE ACCIDENT WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY AN ENEMY.

Dr. E. C. Pendletoh, Just Arrived from Havana, Says He Overheard Talk There of a Plot to Blow Up the Zalinski, the Dynamite Expert, and Other Experts Report to The World that the Wreck Was Not Officials Ready for Vigorous Action if Spanish Responsibility Can Be to Be Sent Down to Make Careful Examinations. DRAWN FROM-A DESORIPTION.BY BYE-WITNESSES ON THE STEAMSHIP CITY OP WASHINGTON WHO SAW THE EXPLOSION.

FOLLOWED BY "A VOLCANO OF FIRE AND SHOWERS OF BOATS, BODIES, IRON AND GUNS." CABLED TO THE WOULD BY ITS OWN Jj .1 -ULT TT 1 IT i TkT A OWT TTTnOnviTI'n i DENT IN HAVANA, SYLVESTER SCOVBL. THE WHOLE STORY OF THE DISASTER TOLD IN A FEW WORDS. Growing Belief that It Was Not from Havana Reports that He Overheard a bee and Lee Suspicious. 1 At the bout of going this edition, ot The World' it IB not known'(Whether the explosion wtjjgn, caused'the notion ot the of a bomb or torpedo placed with an Intent to blow up the vessel. Tho conBenaus opinion of the naval officers and experts in this country IB that the disaster was not accidental.

It is believed that the vessel was blown up, This view, appears, to be bovne out by Conaul-Qeneral Lee and Oapt. Sigsbee, commander of the Maine, 1 In an official oal))e to tho State Department Led makes the significant that n'court of inquiry be held to aagertaln.the cause ot Oapt. Sigsbee officially cabled Assistant Seoretary Long his conclusion, after a hasty examination, that tho disaster was not caused by an accident. He expressed a.bellet that whether the explosion originated without or -within, it was made possible by an enemy, 0, who has, Just arrived from Havana, Bays that he overheard there a conversation In which (t was declared that thoro would shortly come a great sensation! that there were wires all around the Ijluifiei ftwjTtbftt she could be blown to pieces at a moment's'notlue. Lieut.

Zalinski, perhaps the foremost living expert upon in warfare, declares that he is almost sure that the Maine was by a dynamite torpedo or bomb. A despatch from Washington says that Secretary Long and tant Saoi'ijtary Roosevelt called all tlie chiefs in the Navy in consultation yesterday morning to secure expert oplnlpn as cause tho Maine's losjs and its eHeot Navy, Anothev Waahingtqu deapntcU Bays that the 1 a firm'and determined.