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i NEW AND NEXT A Revv a Aaking. Circulation Books Open to All." VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 3.

PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1898. WORLD WANTS GAINED LAST WEEK Over the Same Week of Last Year. Circulation Books Open to All. 1MDH, liy (he ITciin 1 Injt Comimnr.

Nerr Vork World. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Here Are the of the Wreck, 1 THE WORLD'S PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MAINE WRECK. This photograph (the first published) was taken by the World's Staff Correspondent at 1 Havana on Wednesday morning, alter the night explosion; the photograph left Havana by steamship Olivette at 2 P. M.

Wednesday, arrived at Key West at 10.30 P. at Port Tampa, 4 P. M. Thursday; left Tampa by New York express at 7 P. M.

Thursday, and arrived at New York at 2.15 yesterday afternoon. It is here reproduced exactly. The original photograph was shown to Admiral Erben and other naval experts by World reporters last night. THE ABOVE PICTURE WHEN SHOWN THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH: "The heavy crane which lias been thrown over to port is used for hoisting the heavy launches. Above are the other davits.

They are all out of shape me ff Tllt is is othi to do but to uiitii the NOTES ON THE WORLD'S PHOTO. he sI via a ite tm the bCKlte. "Amoredemlateiithtmu cannot fancy!" Tile World's Ha.aiu wrilesontt. tack if theptoteg'raph 1 8 11 ls sto off vanaals and walch for rMnj NOTHING BUT A MINE COULD HAVE BLOWN UP THE BATTLE-SHIP. Spanish Naval Officer May Have Mistaken the Exploding for the Testing Key of the Submarine Battery.

MAINE WAS ONLY ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME POSITION, BUT THEN IN MOONLIGHT, THE MAINE AS SME WAS. 1888, by Uw Prow Publlahlng Company, Now York 'World,) '(Speotil from Btnft Corretpondcnt of Tlia World.) HAVANA, via Key Wesi Feb. Every indica- tjon so far as cabled shows that nothing could have de- slroyed the Maine so peculiarly but a submerged mine of large size. If so, 'the Spanish naval officer in charge may 'have mistaken the testing key for the exploding key or a fa- might have touched it, or an intoxicated and reckless Nayy Department. point of.

greatest and the many facts still, on then the awful fact may be accepted that the Maine already cabled, all in the same direction, it seems that the was blown up by the Spanish Government's submarine laws of nature, must 4uve changed or the.forward magazine mine, did not-explode. It.is definitely known that no other No movable torpedo could have done the damage. These are opinions of naval experts and experts in out that the forward; turret lias its top explosives Havana. 1 1 PRESIDENT AROUSED TO DARK SITUATION, WARSPIRIT RISING. World's News of the Evidence of a Mine Under the Maine Changes the Feeling Throughout the Country.

TELEGRAMS POUR UPON NATIONAL AUTHORITIES Demands for a Fair Investigation Into the Tragedy "a Havana Without Official Wish That It May Be' Found to Be an Accident. i 4 to The-Worm.) imoet conBOTyntiyB purely concur in la yeyy, 9pinion is aa to thie.