The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-22
NAMES SAILORS
Are Smarting Over the Governments
Delay in Furnishing
What They Consider a spanish Outrage
If No Action is Taken They Say They
Will Never Again Pace the Deck
of an American Man-Of-War.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. 21.-A spe-
cial to the Times-Union and Citizen
from Key West, Fla, says:
Sailors of the battleship Maine, suf-
fering from wounds in the Key West
hospital, are smarting over the delay
of the government in furnishing what
they term a Spanish outrage"
In their minds there is no doubt as
to the cause of the explosion, and they
explain the delay in taking summary
action by saying that the president is
morally certain that there was no ac-
cident, and, wishing to deceive the
Spaniards with Il feeling of secur-
ity, is using the short time to
make the necessary preparations to
enforce his ultimatum. If no action is
taken, they say, not a man among
! them will again pace the deck of an
American man-of-war, but if business
is meant, it would take d strong force
to keep them from hurrying to the
| front, wounded though they are, to
take hand in what they look upon as
a personal vengeance.
I'VE were warned not to 90 Ha-
vana," one said Sunday, being told
that danger awaited US there. When
we got there we were again told, and
it was current rumor that the harbor
bottom was hOneycOmbed with mines.
We first chose our anchorage and
rested there for several hours,
but the harbor master compelled
us to weigh and proceed to spot
marked by a buoy. We were reviled
on the streets of Havana, and sneered
at until our blood boiled and found out
for our own safety that it was neces-
sary for US to make our visits to the
city in force. No man dared to go it
alone. There was no knowing what
would happen to him.
1.-The explosion itself is the best evil
dece that it was mine or torpedo. :"
New YORK, Feb. 21.-The Herald
Monday says:
Frederick r. Coudert, formerly coun-
| sci for the United States before the
Behring sea commission and a we'll
known authority upon internationa al
law, was interviewed regarding the
matter of an indemnity if it can be
| shown that the Spanish authorities at
| Havana failed to take proper precau-
| tiOns to insure the safety of the Amer
lean warship Maine.
1.-The destruction of the Maine, by
accident or by the act of irresponsible
individuals, would not justify declara-
ton of war. Carnot, for instance, was
assassinated by an Italian, yet France
did not blame Italy. Italian subjects
were killed by a mob several years ago
! at New Orleans Italy was justified in
demanding an indemnity, which they
received, because the men when slain
were in charge of officers of the law,
who should have made every effort to
prevent their prisoners from being
killed. But it did not result in war. >
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-It is learned
from high diplO&atic source that the
representative Of%hree of the leading
nations of Europe here have advised
their governments that they regard
war between the United States and
Spain as inevita BILE, and that open hos
tilities can not be postponed longer
than two weeks
Their advices are based on informa-
ton obtained from Havana as we'll as
from Washington. 1t is learned that
! Investigations have been in quiet
progress in Havana through con-
sular representatives of the gov
ernments in question, who, though
acting separately, have reached the
unanimous conclusion that the respOn-
sibility for the wreck of the Maine lies
very closely at the doors of certain
Spanish officers who were prominently
connected with the Weyler regime.
KEY WEST, Feb. 21.-News was re-
ceived here Sunday morning to the eff
feet that Capt. Sigsbee and his officers
were now convinced of treachery and
foul play in the Maine wreck, and that
Capt ,Sigsbee had made an impOrtan
report to the Washington officials to
that effect. No details are given, save
the bare fact that something has been
discovered convincing Sigsbee of foul
play.
1t was given out Saturday from q
source that is almost semi-official that
the divers sent down on behalf of the
United States to examine the wreck
of the Maine have made a preliminary
report of the result of their work, and
that the magazine in which the eXplO-
sion is supposed to have occurred is in.
tact. If this report is true, an entirely
different aspect is given to the terrific
explosion which brought death and de-
struction to the Maine. This report
reaching Key West, it is said, caused
the members of the court of inquiry to
decide to proceed to Havana Sunday
and begin their investigation at once,
instead of organizing the court here.
HAVANA, Feb. 21.-Lieut. Command
er Barnett, of the survey boat Bache,
said to press correspondent Sunday
You want the facts. l can tell you
there are % chances out of 10C
that the investigation will show that
the forward magazine of the Maine
did not blow up first, if it exploded at
all, and that it was not the cause OF
the terrible consequences that follow.
ed The condition of the wreck when
first studied and later careful scru
tiny make this an almost absolute GER