The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-17
THE MAINE CATASTROPHE,
continued. from page -
boats and took part in the work of res


boats and took part in the work of res
/ cue.
Stretchers for the use of the wounded
were sent to the scene by the fire bril-
gade, and the headquarters of the Red
Cross society was called upon to send
four stretchers. and men were sent to
patrol the scene of the disaster and pick
UP the dead and wounded.
One of the Names officers, who is be-
ing cared for at the Sanitary head
quarters, is seriously wounded. He is
very young, and is believed to have
been the officer on guard at the time of
the disaster. He is said to have asked
for priest.
NOT A wHIMPER.
A special to the Evening World from
Havana says:
Il have just seen % sailors of the
Maine silently enduring the torture
caused by the powder-skinned faces
and broken bones and mangled flesh
They are being cared for in the military
hospital of San Ambrosio here.
The less severely injured men are
on the City of Washington. The Sc
verely wounded men viii have the best
attention, also, from the men and wO-
men of the American colony.
''An the injured show great grit. You
of the % swathed forms in San Ambro-
sio hospital, nor from those anywhere
else
GUN COTTON AND SHELLS.
The first explosion is 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 cartridges.
IN Maine fol
the pantry of the City of Washington,
breaking the tableware of the steamer
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright,
of the Maine, was half undressed at
9:45, and was smoking in his cabin,
next to that of Captain Sigsbee, it is
said. when the explosion occurred and
put out the electric lights. Wainwright
then lit a match and went to Captain
Sigsbee's cabin The captain, it ap-
pears, had been thrown from his bed,
but was uninjured They both went on
deck and gave orders to flood 1900
pounds of gun cotton, which was on
board. The command was carried out,
but the men who fulfilled it never re-
turned. Havana, however. was saved
from a still more terrible explosion.
WHERE ANCHORED.
The Maine. at the time of the exDlo-
sion, was at anchor about 500 yards
from the arsenal, and some 200 yards
from the floating dock The explosion
put out the street lights near the wharf
and blew down telegraph and telephone
wires in the city. Admiral Manterola
and General SOlana put off to the Maine
soon after the explosion, and offered
their services to Captain Sigsbee.
The heavy rainfall which imme
diately followed last nights horror still
continues in a dreary, dismal drizzle.
Out in the bay lies the wreck of the
once proud Maine. Her steel upper
deck forward has been completely lift
ed and turned over on her Starboard
side. None of the big guns in the tur-
rets are visible. The Maine is slightly
listed to port, and all forward of the
massive cranes for unloading the ships
boats has completely disappeared. The
big tunnels lie fiat upon the twisted and
gnarled iron braces and pieces of steel
deck From the tunnels ait the ship
seems 10 be intact. She has settled
until the water has covered the top of
her suDerstructure, and the stern
searchlight and the rapid-fire gun look
over the water just below them.
BODIES WILL BE RECOVERED.
Most. if not all bodies will be recov-
cred
Two bodies were recovered this after
HOOH ne Sdy liicy are
those of Lieutenant jenkins and As
sistant Engineer Merritt. A vigilant
lockout is being kept for bodies.
Out of 50 injured, not over four are
likely To die All but five officers will
go today to Key West. All the slightly
wounded and all the able bodied men
will go also. with the exception of few
who will be kept here TO identify bodies
when they are secured by the divers.
The officers remaining Will stop at the