The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-24
NAMES SAILORS
Are Smarting Over the Governments
Delay in Furnishing
What They Consider a "Spanish Outra ge'--
II No Action 10 Taken They Say They
Will Never Again Pace the Deck
of an American Mau-of- War.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. Ala 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 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 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 man among
them will again pace the deck of an
American man-of-war, but if business
is meant, it would take strong force
to keep them from hurrying to the
front, wounded though they are, to
take a hand in what they look upon as
n personal vengeance.
ave were warned not to go Ha-
vana," one said Sunday, "being told
that danger awaited us there When
we got there we were again told, and
1T 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 a spot
marked by buoy. We were reviled
1a St, nf liz,
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 Stases before tae
Behring sea commission and a we'll
known authority upon international
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.
''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 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 diplomatic source that the
representatives of three of the leading
nations of Europe here have advised
their governments that they regard
war between the United States and
Spain as inevitable, and that open hos
tilities can not be postponed longer
than two weeks.
Their advices are based on informa-
tion 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. 2l.-News was re-
ceived here Sunday morning to the ef-
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 important
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
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 preliminary
report of the result of their work, and
that the magazine in which the explo-
sion is supposed to have occurred i. 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. 2l.-Lieut. Command
er Barnett, of the survey boat Bache,
said to press correspondent Sunday:
"You want the facts. l can tell you
there are 95 chances out of 100
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