The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-22
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The Ward limo steamer seeuranca from
Tampico and Havana got hero yesterday with
the first persons WHIT have arrived In this city
from Havana since the Maine disaster. Tho
Seguranca arrived at Havana from Tampico
ut 10 o'clock the morning after the explosion
and found the city in an uproar, and expecting
instant vengeance TO be wreakod on the Span"
ish by the United States. Tho Seruranca re-
MANNED in Havana a day, took on some passen-
gers and cargo and then sailed for New York.
her trip up tho coast being q battle with the
elements. She brought thirty.four cabin pas
sengers, most OF them from Tampico. and none
Of them knowing half as much about the blow
ing up Of the. warship as was known in New YORK
city. At Quarantine there was n STAMPEDE Tor
tho newspapers, every person aboard the boat
from the Captain down TO the most humble
storage passenger and able seaman being anx-
ious to know what had happened during tho
days they had been on tho ocean,. and what the
Federal Government was going to do about 1t.
Among the passengers who came from Ha-
yana on the ship was William L. Corbin. He
told the ship news reporter at Quarantine that q
little while before the blowing up Of the Maine
he had seen q boat going toward her. Then no
said he had made an arrangement with one OF
the "yellows' to sell all the Information he
had. He said that after that he would 60 to
Washington and make q statement to the proper
authorities.
The sto-y that n boat was seen approaching
tho Maine shortly before the cxplosion has al
ready been officially denied. so the reception
Mr.. .Corbin will get at Washington with. q story
to that effect may not be cordial.
Mrs. Helena DE NaRhten of 166 Walton place
S Chi Sss o wS Ssr also bots I R pnss' frisnd sr0 when n the es:
p%iosion occurred. First. she said, there was
mufied sound or q deep roar. the neSt P1o 10
earth. Her .drst impression was that the in.
s~urgents had attacked the Fix and wSTe POW; xn"
m.rn; w mes terror.strieEen. They looked out Of
The win ad9 sS,t And they ssyut saw a psGp yell TInRn and
minutes after the second. explosion before 1t WAS
s sTc,ssms at tho ss hStel ,n %Pss hSa n' Fire. engines
dashed; about the streets. The sky was 1t up
with the glare Mss Of som the S 5iifIa t3m psi6 bsf 81 en sn sTso%;
had blown up was true. That nish soi hnd Inc the
They followed tho advice Capt. Sigsbse sent to
1Se hmeF FSe G 1ataHn E In h the oi TYNE However SI . rn we're er,
wild, and the excitement among them was con-
%stently on the increase: ur., IN p-,ot,vn wa,
He was uptown IN the city when the two e:
was terrific. and it fairly shook the whole isl.
and. 1t was accompanied by a tremendous
flash tSsh. e light Sa IT., that ,s shGt tS up a hish w IN the bsi aiF' bo ac
barded. He and tho men with him thought
that the United States had concluded to act,
Spanish boats in the harbor. He described the
s %ra' De Sa, i1l1em'd desc RIB s1 Il. He said snEpi that
opinion in Havana was divided as to the cause
Of The explosion, the foreigners GENERALLY beiiev-
cy other than her own magazine, and the ma
tives and Spanish contestinE holly for the other
The only man on the scguranca who was near
enough to the Maine to. see the explosion when
it occurred was Francis Weinhelmcr OF this
siho heat E; Of n, the city was SDapnSssdg a during ,s
Maine. One Of the things ] noticed was that tho
cruiser Alfonso NIL, which had been lying com
ter that morning, had moved oil and was about
three ships lengths from hcr., It was not very
d dar M Mhf r. I n FIaShs s.s the e}ea dock sud Ihs Sta I b ssri
an awful roar in the direction of the Maine.
Then there was a flash of light and then q sec.
would have thrown mo.down If I had not held
to q rail; :, F9 3ho this ds.n SO ,On ID 81 shock l.,t The
w out Of. he water, II looked as i Invent 500
or 400 feet in tho air. From what I saw 1t was
impossible to tell anything about ne cause or
s sfSo. s1p'o'i0n-"h''h'F 1t was inside or out
The statement made by Mr.. Weinheimor con.
earning tnC uTdWlnk dWd " Luo hiioLoo I
the mo. ming before the explosion was made by
other passengers. and by them was regarded as
significant.
One Of the seguranca's passengers said that
after tho explosion he pretended to have strong
Spanish sympathies just for the purpose Of !
among them and expressed satisfaction at the
where the Spanlards who heard him shouted
the same.sentinents. They. cursed the Ameri-
cans. and they hoped that another ship might be
sent to Havana SO that the same fate could no
arranged for her. This. passenger said that he
iards to talk that he had pretended to Spanish
sympathies, for 1t was all he could do TO keep
his mouth shut and his fists still SO bitter, were
the denunciations that he heard. He said that
there was no question about the joy of the Span
iards at the accident. 1t was not concealed in
any way. he said, when the, were among them.
America was listening to them.
Bishop Fitzgerald of the Methodist Church,
whose home Is In st. Louis, was q passenger from
Tampico. He denied q cabled story that he
had been invited to ~oficiate at the funeral of
the sailors OF the Maine. He said the excite
ment In Havana was intense while the Segu-
ranca was there. Tho city at that time was In
Capt. Hansen Of the seguranca and many of
his Officers attended the funeral Of tho Names