The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-02-26
ENOUGH LEFT TO SHOW
now DEED WAS DONE
Maine Is in Ribbons but an Inves-
tigation Will Show All
the Facts.
WORK WILL TAKE THREE DAYS
span,ards ON tho Island Openly
Avow Their Joy Over Ia Dis
aster--lividcnce of Their
Feeling Not Hidden.

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New York, Feb. 22.-Tribune's Ha-
vana special: The Maine is actually
in ribbons, but enough Of the vessel
remains to make possible n determine.
ton whether the explosion came from
witout or within. The officers of the
Maine do not publicly discuss the
theory of n submarine mine, which
may have been set off by the explosion,
u it evidently has weight with them.
They are particularly anxious for
points to be gathered from an exam
i%nation of the plates of the hull. Opin-
ion seems to be that the hole was made
by an external explosion. Sigshee
thinks the investigation to be made by
him will be completed in three days
and tho result laid bettors the court 81
inquiry.
Havana newspapers give prominence
to dispatches saying it is recognized in
the United States that the casualty
was purely an accident. Prominence
is also given the Madrid dispatches
quoting Sagasta and other Spanish
statesmen to the effect that sym
patty and sorrow have caused a
friendly feeling between Spain and
the United States. No%twithstand-
ing these assurances from abroad O
painful impress is caused in Cuba by
knowledge that a considerable element
among the Spanish classes rejoices
with little secrecy over the disaster. If
the instances were isolated it would
not be important. Unfortunately the
verified cases are too many to support
this charitable view. In several
places the Spanish army officers drunk
toasts that other vessels of the Ameri-
can navy may follow the Maine. In
Matanzas, where mutterings were
heard at the time of the Montgomery's
visit, the intransigent newspaper La
Region publishes an article saying, in
substance, the calamity to the Maine
was a Judgment on the United States
for sending the ship to Havana as an
"atfectionate sign of sympathy toward
a suffering and heroic Spanish nation"
The tone is one Of mingled sarcasm
and mock coincidence. In a frequent
ed restaurant in Havana last night a
bill of fare had Chicken a la Maine"
This indicates the feeling Of a part of
the populace, especially the volunteers.
Sigsbee and Lee ncu in advising
against sending further war vessels to
Havana at present.
NlaraZine knGnct.
New York, Feb. 21.-A Herald Key
West special says: 1t is learned from
what may be considered a semi-official
source that the divers sent down in be-
half of the United States to examine
the wreck of the Maine made a pre-
urinary report IN the result of their
work. ~Increditable as it may seem, it
$ said that after u partial examination
IF the magazines of the Maine the div
srs report that the one in which the
explosion was supposed to have oc-
CURED is intact. According to the cor
respondents information the contents
and the magazine are unframed.
Therefore, if this report be true, an en-
tirely different aspect may be given
the terrific explosion which brought
death and destruction to the Maine.
This report, it is said, caused the mem
bers of the court of inquiry to proceed
70 Havana and begin an investigation
1T once, instead of organizing a court
aere. In Havana the court will make
! personal examination of the wreck
and will then take testimony regard
ng the loss of the vessel.