MAINE BLOWN UP. The United States Battleship Destroyed in The Har- bor at Havana. MANY MEN KILLED. Others of the Officers and Crew Wounded, Several of the Wounded Sailors Who Were Interviewed Sald the Explosion Took Place While They Were Asleep and They Could Give No Particulars—The Awful Crash Came About Ten o'Clock. At ® quarter of 10 o'clock Tuesday even- ing « terrible explosion took place on board the United States battleship Maine, in Ha- vana barbor, Many persons were killed or wounded. All the boats of the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII rendered assistance, As yet the cause of the explosion is not apparent. The wounded sailors of the Maine are unable to explain it, The explosion shook the whole city, The windows were broken in all the houses, A despatch from Havana says: Of the 354 persons, officers and men, who were borne on the pay rolls of the wrecked battieship Maine, but nipety-six are now alive, the death list thus reaching the enor- mous total of 2568, Seventy or more of the survivors are more or less badly wounded I'wenty-pine injured men are at the military hospital of San Ambrosio, thirty-six are be- ing cared for on the City of Washington and a score more are scattered about in the Alfonso X11 Hospital in sanitary beadquar- ters, and aboard the Spanish cruiser Al- fonso XI All bat five of the officers and a 1 1 . Kae WW {f the men v to Key West number o the Olivette, Out io the bay proud Maine. has been completely lifted and turned over on ber starboard side. None of the big guns in the turrets are visible, The Maine is slightly listed to port, and all forward of the massive cranes for unloading ship's boats bave completely disappeared. The big funnels lie flat upon the twisted and guaried iron braces and pleces of steel deck, From the funnels aft the ship seems to be intact. She has settled until the water has covered the top of her superstructure, and the stern searchlight and rapid-fire gun look over the water just telow them, t the time of the explosion the Maine was at anchor about 000 yards from the arsenal and some 200 yards from the floatiag dock. The explosion put out the street lamps near the wharf and blew down telephone and tel- egraph wires in that vicinity, Cause of the Explosion, The definite cause of the disaster has not said to have been caused by over 600 pounds of gun cotton, and the subsequent explosion is alleged to have been caused by shells and eartridges, Capt. Sigsbee, interviewed with reference to the cause of the explosion, sald “I cannot yet determine the cause, but competent investigation will decide whether the expiosion was produced from an inter- lor or exterior cause, | cannot say anything until after such an investigation bas been made. I will not and caunot econscienti- ously anticipate the decision, nordo 1 wish to make any unjust estimate of the reason for the disaster.” Lieut, Commander Wainwright advances the belief that the explosion was due to the short-cireuiting of a dypamo. Another theory is that the original explosion was that of the boiler which furnished steam to run the dynamo. It appears also a third explosion occurred on the deserted ship about 2 o'elock in the morning. Ordered to Flood Gun Cotton, hall undressed at 9.45 P. M., aad was smok- ing in his cabin, next to tbat of Captain Bigsbee, it is sald, when the explosion oe curred and put out the electric lights, Liegtenaut Commander Wainwright then lit a watch and went to Capt. Rigsbee’s cabin, The captain, It appears, had been thrown from his bed, but was upiojured. They both went on deck and ordered some men to flocd 2.500 pounds of gun cotton, which was on board, The order was carried out, but es Ss i A Saat NAVAL ATTAUNRES ACTIVE, bDussios 10 Be Held at Paris, The United States naval attache at Lone don, Lieut, J. C. Colwell, ins goue to Paris to attend the conferences of the United States naval and military attaches of Europe. usualiy active recently, The naval attaches of Paris and Berlin recently spent a week in Loudon, with Lieat. Colwell, preparing doc- uments which will be forwarded to Wash- ington. the men never returned. Havana, however, | Mexleo were taking eight wounded men was saved from a still more terrible explo- | ashore, after having saved them from the sion, water, Four boats were lowered, all manned by i officers, and one of them was lost, Board of Inquiry. Admiral Manterola and Gen. Solano putf 4 giepateh from Washington says: Upon off to the Maine soon after the explosion, | sor naval ofMoers constituting a court of in- and offered their services to Captain Bigs- quiry, now rests the responsibility of de- bee, termining the facts regarding the explos- Capt. Sigsbee went In his own launch on lion by which the Maine was destroyed. board the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII to | hace oMeers will proceed to Havana in & thank her Captain and officers. He after-{ pia States warship, probably the Mont- wards went on board the City of Washing- | gomaery, and were named as follows: ton, where Consul General Lee, Dr. W. T. . Brunner, Acting Sanitary Inspector of Ha vana, and the correspondents of the Amerl- can newspapers bad already gathered, Capt. F. E. Chadwick, recently Chief of Thorough Investigation Ordered. the Bureau of Equipment, now commanding The United States Coast Burvey steamer | ina Now York at Key West. Jache arrived here with wrecking imple- Lisutenant Commander Keaton Schroeder, ments and an examination of the Malne's | executive officer of the battle-ship Massa- hull will be made, chusetts, and an authority upon all matters A thorough investigation into the causes | rajucing to ordnance. y of the disaster and the extent of the iajur- Lieutenant Commander Adolph Marix, ies to the Maine will be beld, until recently executive officer of the Maine and now executive officer of the Vermont, He will act as judge advoeate of the court, Having thus intrusted to capable and ex. perienced officers the grave duly of determ { the disaster and fixiecg its 0 responsit , the government has settled Capt, W. T, Sampson, recently Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, now commanding the battleship Iowa, at the Tortugas. A despateh from Washington, says: —Sec- retary Long took steps to secure an investi- gation into the Malne disaster, He tele. graphed to Admiral Bieard at Key West to appoint a board of naval officers to proceed at once to Havana, employ divers, and gen- erally to make such an inquiry as the regu- {lations of the navy demand shall Le mad: in the oase of the loss of a ship. news has beon sue It is expected that this work will take, some time, and while there are some officers who say that in their opinion it will not be possible, owing to the probably disrupted condition of the hull, to make out the cause of the explosion, the opinion of the majority a that the question will easily be settled by The Interment of the mad yrs of the Maine the simple observation of the ship's hull ok viaca . plates in the neighborhood of the hole which | prage sunk her. i ining the enuge down to « K attitude in respect to the { terrible marine tragedy in Havana harbor, caused by the appalilog renedad by a calmer and judieal state of mind, the naval offi- Che great shoek olals recognizing that until the result of the quiry is made known there can be nothing but speculation and theories, Buried At Havana. hursday afternoon about 5 o'clock at Havans., Shortly before the hour all Havana was in movement The flags on i {f mast and y i lings were at half din morning the public bull { the houses were drag DETAILS OF THE DISASTER. i Classes were represented in Capt. Sigabee the Last Man to Leave the ‘ ts along whi Wrecked Warship. eral procession passed to the e One of the officers ats Sg battie-ship Maine were keys had been turned over ire Adver r, an emblem ron i Havata Yacht ib, and A Larranea, Send ete, Mrs, 1 haries ONE OF OUR BEST SHIPS iA Full Description of the Maine and a Hoster of Her Officers, gut ngs in her secondary batters head torped Lhe The Maine's Officers, officers of the Charlies DD, Sigehes, eompandiz LESHIP MAINE, ant-( aspder, Richard Wailnwrigh tenants, Geo, F. W, Holman, John was anchored close to the Maine, also low- | and Carl W, Junges Lieutenants ered her boats and saved thirty-seven of the | Grade, ) Georg crew of the American warship. and Friend W, Jenkins; Nas ‘ndets, Jouns Another officer sald: “I was sitting with | H Holden, Watt T. verins, vr Bron two more officers in the mess room, when a [son and Rurgeon, Qeavy explosion oocurred. It wns 80 heavy | Lucien G. Heneberger that we understood theship would be lost, | W, Littlefield; Chie! Engineer, Charies P and we went on the upper deck, and found | Howell; Passed Assistant Engineer, Fred that she had been badly wrecked by an ex- | eric C. Bowers; Assistant Engineers, John R, plosion, that she was on fire, and sinking. | Morris aod Darwin B. Merritt; Naval Cadets All efforts were then directed toward lower- n and ing the boats and saving lives, The Maine | Arthur Crenshaw; Chaplain, Jobs Chid- settled quickly on the bottom of the harbor, | wick; First Lieutenant of Marines only her upper works remaining above the] WW, Catlin; Boatswain, Francis E. Larkin water. A number of boats from the Spanish | Guaoner, Joseph Hill; Carpenter, George warship Alfonso XII and boats from the | Heims, Ward Line steamer City of Washington came along side and rendered assistance, Twan- The ty-four men who were slightly wounded | Sigsbee, is a favorite in the Navy Depart were carried on board the City of Washing- , ment. For four years he was chief of the ton, and the rest of the wounded were ear- | hydographic office and by his energy brought Paymaster, Charles Engineer Division, Pope Wasting P Albertias Captain Sigsbee, ommander of the Maine, Captain > Lit) od i Ft % X = Ba — ~ HAVANA HARBOR--SCENE OF THE MAINE DISASTER. ried on board the Alfonso XII, from which | the office up to a high standard. He was pince they were taken to other quarters, and | luekly to get so important a ship as the naval doctors, sent to the military hospitals, | is that of a commander, but immediately he This officer sald the explosion occurred | justified the department's judgement in the somewhere in the forward part of the mid- | selection by ruuning bis ship straight into a ship section of the battie-ship. Many of the | dock in New York harbor to avoid running erew, who were below at the time of the ex- | down a packed excursion boat, This was a plosion, were unable to escape, and those | display of quick judgement, nerve and pluck who sucoeeded in renching the upper decks | that pleased the department so highly that saved their lives with great difficulty with the Captain was sent a complimentary letter, the assistance of the officers and men on Henry Irving has been selected as the watch, Rede lecturer at Cambridge University for At 2 o'clock in the morning thers was an- | 189%, The lectureship was established in other terribie explosion. A: the same time | Henry 111s time, to be devoted to “human bouts from the Spanish steamers Colon and | ity, logle and philosophy forever, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, : Pour Years for Congressmen. { { The House Committes on the elestion of i The Cuban insurgents continue to destroy | the President, Viee president and Represen | the immense canefleids, | tatives fu Congress has authorized a favor | Bpanish merobants and planters in Cuba able report on a resolution to propose to the | are greatly discouraged over the conting- i various state legisiatures an amendment tC . ance of the war, aod some of them advocate | the Constitution, as follows: { selling the island to the United States, i “The House of Representatives sball be The Radical members ‘of the Autonomist composed of members chosen every fourth | party beid a mestiog lu Havana, and, it is year by the people of the several States, and - sald, determitied to open vegotiations on | the electors in each Siate shall have the | the part of the coloninl government with the | qualifications requisite for electors of the Jusurgents, und drafted a series of proposis | ost numerous braaeh of the state legisla | tons 10 be presented to the lnsurgen ture.” SPAINS DISCLAIVE Madrid Government Repudiates De Lome Letter. ABSTRACT OF NOTE. Expresses Concern That Any Doubt Should Fxist of Spain's Sincerity in the Negotiations for a “Treasty—The Hes Ignation Was Accepted Before Gen’ Woodford Presented Our Side of Case. A cable dispatch fr Madrid says creo has hoon gazetted, accepting the resig nation of Senor Dupuy de Lome as Minister of Spain at Washington, Following Is the text of the which Is dated February 10 Acceding to the wishes of Beno Lome, fn the name of my august son, hivg Alfonso XI11, and as Queen RHegonut, I accept the resignation be has presented of the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, leaving him without employment, with the emoluments due him Manie CaRIsTING, Benor Polor de Borpabe nate to the Usited States Slates Minister Woodford Minister desig visited United Senor Gullon, the Foreign Minister eabled to President MeKinley qaent M Abstract of Note to Woodford. Spain bas officially disclain manner the reflectio 3 Dupuy de Lome let need by the Sts is satisfy { Deen written withis ' Final means. T'tiat this weaning } ition by the ( (reneral W {ord President The Commercial Treaty. ohnsider it necessnsry t r to demonstrate apew ti HETURNED TO CANALMEJAS, to His Attorney. ey Waekises 1 1 am ’ se Washingt iepariment has ken steps to place in $ yds of Renor anaiejus, to whom the lett was address. a, the epistie writler iil 1 following brief statement, the State Department “efi ois iwi . , 3 h fweoguizing that the legal ownership the De Lome letter is in Mr. Canalejas, and his agent and attorney, Mr. Calderon Car litle, having presented proper thority uw receive the same, the letter hin As explaine ‘ x 8.0 Was receive the intber, he ization from Send of the Sate Deg f document, of properly, It sho deliverad to its rightful 10 other course eft Slates, an in nll other countriss having a 20de of laws, a letter becomes the sole prop. erty of the person to whom it is addressed 88 s00n AS it starts ou its way [from the setider, This letter has, besides, completely served already ail of the uses for which it might have been appiled by our government, and there are in existence facsimile copies of the paper thal are 20 surely authenticated as to leave no legal dott «+f thats nncuracy ABubs NUL ERG 2 su LE Oilve Schreiner, the noted woman writer, is one of the most consistent advocates of the “emancipation” of women. John H. Siotsenberg, of New Albany, Ind., has one of the finest collections of Biles in this country, They range in years from 1408 to 1790, Bir Arthur Saliivan is at work on a musi. cal setting for Rudyard Kipiing's “*Reces. sional,” Baron De Mohrenheim, the ate Russian Ambassador to France, is going to seli the rare and splendid collection of Dateh pic. tures, porcelain and old books which be has formed during his long residence at Paris, Some of the Dresden porcelain in his eabi- nets Is unique, The Marquis of Bute offers to give $90 each to the young women of the town of Rothesay who are anxious to marry Lut are too poor to do so, Iver Churehlil, who was best man to the Duke of Marlborough at the latter's wed- ding, Is the Unionist candidate for Paria meni from Plymouth, The Emperor of Austria, who is a very ins teresting persotiage just now, is even sarlier ia bis habits than Kaiser Wilhelm, and cone siderably more frugal in his way of living. His Majesty rises at 4.30 and staves bimseif, nnd after a cup of cule au lait and a roll a at work aL A, M. So Application made by a Jlepublican lor an njunetion to prevent the holding of an slec- don Iu New Castle county, Del, fora suce sessor to Henator Hanby was denied Three men were arrested in Carlisle, Pa, *harged with eracking the safe of the United states Express Company at that place, Judge Binckstone, of Accomae, was elected to succeed the Inte Judge Gunter for the Iidewater Cireult, Virginia, Otis H. Buseell and Wray T. Knight are the Hepublieay aspirants for postmaster of Hebmond, Va, Mie Francis FE, Willard, president of the J T. U,, who has been il in New York led at an early hour Thursday morn- I'he body of Ensign Joseph C, Dreckin idge, who was drowned oat Cushing, arrived in New York and wil taken to Kentucky for burial from the torpedo A new combipation of Paris green manu i facturers A been dubbed the YY case against bherifl ities, Bishoj ‘ the offered position of t ff manage Alaska steamer ind and it ny persons wi were irely lost, American Ins appointed ago. but the appointment, anc of $500 for servic ing this as the reason B.& O CHANGES Several Important Promotions in the Traf fie Department March 1, A. Murray, the will be given the title « resent Coal and Coke Agen { General Coal and Coke Agent besndquarters at Baltimore, William 1. An. frews will be Assistant Coal and Coke Agent for the Pittsburg District with at Pittsburg. E. T. Affleck Coke Agent for the lines west © of the entire system with now Coal and become Assistant Coal and ( k tor Andrews is well-known as private secretar) f Receiver Oscar OG Murray, and came to the B. & O. when Mr Murray was appointed Heceiver. Mr, Af fleck has hell his present position for a River with headquarters at Columbus, will : that territory number of years and Mr. J. A formerly private secretary to ex-Traflic Manager Frank Harriott. These appoint ments are in the nature of promotions and it is believed will very materially strengibe: that branch of the EB. & O. traflic depari ment. Fir oF LABOUR. lapan bas a ship school, Japan buys Canadian salmon. France has one electric raliway. Frisco is to have a hemp factory. Denver has a fruit pediers’ union, Ia Mexieo miners get 37% cents a day lee laborers at Rondout N. Y., demand #2 a day. New York State Grange advocates a State income tax. In Tokio, Japan, there ie a union of 1.000 iron-workers. New York engineers are opposed to a bili requiring licenses, Cievelan i unionists will net a play called “The Miners’ Strike,” ’ Chattanooga foundry employes wen as advance of 4 per cent, Six thousand people sleep in the open aly in London every night. A Culeago ordinance requires city horses to be shod in union shops, Wisconsin hardware men at their State convention decided to fight department stores, All officers of the Cleveland Central La bor Union must furnish bonds, Chicago master carpenters gay cut-throat competition has ruined their busivess. They bave organized and will employ only un fonists, ‘Frisco bas a new tailors’ union, and it will join the national body. The astonishing statement 18 made tha $90,000,000 of bonds were soid in New York during the month of January. New York electrotypers struck agalost handling matter set by non-unionists, Mexioo bas yielded $4,000 000,000 worth of BSE STE News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest ABERUTAL OUTRAGE. Harrisburg School District May Lose About 81500 Typhold Fever at Home- stend Causes Death in One Street High Hill Bolls Down Into a Valley Decided Stand Against Dancing st Banksville, was the obhbers. Mr is proprietor Taylorevilie ur miles from Ashland, He was rattiipg of a door. Hav- nud a recent robbery be armed bim- i # shotgun, and, placing a revolver pocket, erept cautiously toward the rom the dining-room. Just as he reached it the door was burst open and Three oivers while an, who is verpowered and FX masked men rushed n bin if them veered ‘ oihers seized 3 Years id. was eas y iggrd. The robbers then ransacked the finding four watches, 8 box « a quantity of sliverware Hping-room and, having 3 ‘ lemanded of the e which Ungrateful Tramp wn Hungsa i Frpelled Veron 1 their names thers have placed of ation, because the young nie insisted up fa ‘ alter they had een warned not to follow in the ways of the ‘ana Holin (be elder Joarned and two Rights of Citizenship. ens of Hollidaysburg petittonea s Bialr aunty iris for the ad » option of re stringent naturalization rules, and asi. hat aliens who cannot read and ander nstitations of State and nation barred out. They also seek to prevent . . > & ’ : rdw tr y i the rights « itizonship from being ron. terred pon any pareons who base “3 particg- nesemblivs, and to debar politicians and ofee peekers from pated in riots and 1 ating as vouchers on n iralization papers, Ihe petiticas are not relished by labor lead ore who were engaged in be Court has nol yet ilaken ans the recent strike: definite Lin action, Big Rush At Steel Works, The Carpenter Stee) Company, of Reading. « working on double turn with a full fora of 250 men. There is a report that 2 bas received an order from the Navy Denar. ment for 27.000 steel projectiles, rangirg in weight from 450 to 1.080 pounds cach Everybody connected with the works pre. serves great secrecy. but recent large ship- ments show that projectiles are being turned out in large quantities, This company sinne its establishment bas furnished $1,000,000 worth of projectiles. Mysterious Epldemie, Typhoid fever is epidemic on Tenth Street, ilomestead. The borough authorities have been unadie to discover the cause, and have called on the State Board of Health, With- ina few days, Richard Scorer, a fursiture dealer, John Shaffer, a drugrist, and Miss Hilda Rabon, aged 21 yoars, daughter of HH. J. Kubo, have died. Miss Kubn was a pub lie 8 ‘bool teacher, Phenomenal Avalanche A phenomenal avalanche of slope was set 1 motion at Carlim. A solid limestone bili, 175 feot Linh, 100 feet long and 195 feet deep, moved from its base and went erashing into the valley below. There were 150.000 tons of loose rook in the avalanche, asd the thunoderous nolse was heard for many mile, The Huns who work in the quarries there were on a boliday excursion, else there would have been a wholesale slaughter of men, Workman's Neck Broken, David Huebler, an employes of the Boss mer department of the Pennsylvania Stee] Works, at Steviion, was fostantiy killed by falling from & Jarge scaffold near one of the inrge vessels, at which be was working to get in proper shape for the resumption of operations. His neck was broken.
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