Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-03-03

curry personally inspected the wreck
of the Maine by the invitation of Capt.
Peral, appointed by the Spanish gov
ernment as a special Judge TO investi-
gate the disaster, and his secretary
viewed the divers at work. Capt.
Peral expressed his appreciation OF
the courtesies shown to him by the
court of inquiry.
A number of bodies were discovered
Monday in the forward hatch. 1t was
not possible to remove them, but they
probably will be removed Tuesday.
HAVANA (via Key Vest, Feb. 23.-
The situation Tuesday night was more
grave than at any time since the Maine
explosion week ago.
Although the officers of the naval
.rable reserve. the World correspond
ent learns that some of the best naval
experts now believe that the explosion
was the result of treachery.
They do not believe that Spanish Of
fcers were part of the conspiracy.
From evidence now in their possession
they believe the Spanish government
Gen. Blanco and all his military subor-
dinates were guiltlcss alike of knowl-
edge of or participation in the crime.
1t is believed TO have been set off by a
fanatic.
HAVANA, Feb. 2S.-The court of in
quiry opened at half-past ten and took
n recess at half-past twelve. Lieut..
G. I. w. Holman, navigator and ord
nance officer of the Maine, was exam
ined at the morning session. The
court met for the afternoon session at
half-past one. and Lieut.. Commander
r. Wainwright, executive officer of the
Maine, was called to the witness stand.
Lieut.. Commander Wainwright has
been in immediate charge of the wreck
since the explosion.
Nearly all the possible salvage has
nov been made from the cabin aft.
The forts TO reach the ward and mess
rooms are frustrated by some unknown
obstacle 1t Is expected to find bodies
N those rooms. Two cases of ten
inch ammunition have been found, the
one having exploded, the other full oil
powder. These were found forward
Among the salvage were table war,
and the silver service of the Maine.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.-The navy de
partment received a dispatch from
Capt Sigsbce Tuesday evening saying
that IL more bodies had been recov
cred from the wreck of the Maine
All the remains are unidentified.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.-Much Interest
was shown in a dispatch received
shortly before 5 o'clock from Adm
Sicard giving the recommendations o
Capt. Sampson, of the court of inquiry
as to the raising of the wreck. Thu
view of naval officers was that Capt
Sampson and his associates were Civ
ing this advice, not as court, but a
officers in a position to speak as to TIN
best methods to be adopted for wreck
ing the Maine. Various interpreta
tions were put on the expression ''for
ward half completely destroyed"
HAVANA, Feb. "a (via Key West).-
The situation, which may be change,
at any moment by fresh discoveries
| may be summed mp, when this dis
patch was sent Wednesday afternoon
substantially as follows:
The divers having discovered case
of brown hexagonal powder for tn
16-inch guns unexploded, and believ
ing also that other unexploded will b
found in the 10-inch magazine on tn
starboard side forward, the conviction
grows that this magazine did not blow
up. II this be so, and many have in
sisted from the first that it is, tn
further conviction is forced that tn
| explosion which wrecked the Main
came from the outside on the por
bow.
In reply to . question put by thi
correspondent to q high American off
cial as to what the outcome would b
IL it were proved that the disaster wa
due to an outside agency, the official i
question said:
''Sir, the American people could nc
be restrained. i mean war. Still
! doubt whether it would be necessar
to FIRE q shot Adm. Sicard coul
anchor the Iowa, the Indiana, the Ma
sachusetts and the New York outsid
Havana harbor to prevent the ingres
of the food supplies, without whic
the city could not exist q fortnigh,