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
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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.