The Portland daily press., 1898-02-21

dAUof 0uo ui5asI6r anu bnls ldCp is loUAod
upon as showing that the explosion CO.
CURED on board the Maine and not out
side as in the latter case many fish would
have been killed from the conclusion.
Captain Sigsbee said to the Associated
Press correspondent that the men at work
under water about the Maine were expert
divers. Most of the day was spent in get
ting the divers accustomed to the work
and nothing of Importance was found.
AT KEY WEST.
The East Deering Boy Among the Sur
vivors There.
Key West Fla, February 19.-The
lighthouse steamer Mangrove arrived
here this morning from Havana with the
following wounded from the Maine disas-
ter: Edward Mattson, B. WILDER, j. G.
White, Daniel Cronip, John Coffey, J. H.
Bloomer, Alfred Hernis, j. A. Rowe,
Charles Pitcher and VIM. McGuire. Out
of 26 in the hospital five have died. Eleven
seriously wounded remain in Havana
The condition of the injured at the
Marine hospital and the barracks is slight
Iy improved The injured men who ar
rived on the Mangrove this morning in
care of Dr. Glendening, from The bar
racks, are suffering mostly from severe
burns, but they are doing nicely. The
eleven very seriously injured who are still
in the hospital at Havana will probably
be brought here in few days by the
steamer Fern.
The battleship Iowa came up from the
feet today, arriving off here at O'Clock
this afternoon. She had ON board the
commanders of the Massachusetts, and In
diana, who will be members of the COM
mission to inquire into the disaster to the
Maine.
The torpedo boat Ericsson left shortly
after the arrival at her anchorage of the
Iowa to carry the battleship's mail to
her. -ir
Rear Admiral Sicard came ashore from
the New York on the Ericsson probably to
secure place for the meeting of the court
of inquiry.
SPANIARDS WILL NOT INTERFERE
Washington, February 19.-The appar-
emit difficulty attending the sending
down of divers to the Maine was re-
lieved, if not entirely removed by a state
ment today by Senior Dubose, charge
d'affairs of the Spanish legation, that
complete and harmonious understand
ing between Capt. Sigsbee and the auhor-
tiles at Havana had been reached on the
matter on the divers and that the Span
ira territorial, that is, part of the SOW
ereignty of the United States, the same
as the United States. legation.
According to the view taken by the
Spanish authorities there can be no
trouble attending the work of the divers.
Capt Sigsbee will be recognized as the
one to direct operations and to send the
government divers for such inspection
as he sees proper to make. Mr.. Dubose
feels assured, however, that Capt Sigs-
bee will extend equal facilities to the
Spanish divers, SO that the inspections
may proceed together. As to what di
vers Capt. Sigsbee will employ, the feel
ing among Spanish officials here is that
this will be wholly a matter of discretion
with Capt. Sigsbee. But at the same time
the feeling is expressed that this discre
ton will lead to the choice of authorized
divers of the navy department rather
than those representing newspapers.
Secretary Long wired Admiral Sicari
today, after the consultation with Presi-
dent Mckinley, telling him briefly what
answer had been returned to Gen. Lees
application in behalf of the Spanish gov
eminent for permission to examine the
Maine. He also instructed the admiral
to press forward as rapidly as possible
the work of survey upon the Names hull
and to have the court Of inquiry proceed
to Havana as soon as possible.
1t is scarcely expected at the department
that any information of value as to the
cause of the explosion will be available
until the court has begun the formal
inquiry. The divers now at work in the
wreck are understood to be employed in
securing bodies and in removing of
ships papers and small articles of value.
The officials here intimate that the dis
covery of pieces Of torpedoes is not to be
taken in itself as evidence of an outside
attack on the vessel, for it is fully ex-
pected that of the eight torpedoes on
the Maine some were more or less rupt-
ured and scattered by the explosion which
destroyed the ship.
MAINE INTO THE MUD.
Providence, February 19.--Capt. Olsen,
one of the best known submarine divers
and wreckers on the Atlantic caost, who is
thoroughly familiar with the bottom of
Havana harbor, has some interesting
views about the sunken battleship Maine
One of the largest contracts which
Capt. Olsen ever successfully carried out
for either the government or private par
ties was the demolition and arising of
the greater portion of the steamship
Venetian, in Boston harbor, which was
sunk some two years ago. d., e5q
Capt. Olsen says it will be a. most diff.
cult task to raise the Maine, and that the