The herald., 1898-02-23
WRECK WORK
Continued From Page One

and the silver service belonging TO the
| Maine.
George w. Koebeler of Brooklyn died to-
day at the military hospital. All the other
injured show some Improvement.
La Lucha in an editorial today comments
upon the ''unfairness of the United States
in making Captain Sigsbee the ADVISOR and
the assistant of the court of inquiry.
The editorial is evidently based on incor-
rect information from the United States
as naval officers here say 1t is Impossible
under the rules constituting naval courts
of inquiry that the captain commanding
the ship destroyed should have anything
to do with the findings of the court. being
in one sense on trial himself. 1t is made
Captain Sigsbee's duty TO give all the testi-
mony as TO the facts in his possession.
La Lucha claims also that the court OF
inquiry is not constituted as it would be
by any other of the great powers but in
this particular the paper is evidently Ia
boring under further misinformation.
Gunner Charles Morgan of the cruiser
New York, who is in charge of the divers.
will devote special attention to examining
the ammunition in the fore part of the
Names hull and TO ascertain the condi-
ton of the plates magazines and engines.
He is graduate in gunnery and is regard
ed as entirely competent. as, indeed are all
the divers under his direction. He is under
strict orders not to give out anything on
the subject of his Investigations. except TO
the officers of the court of inquiry, when
called upon.
The autonomist government has con-
firmed the appointment of Senior Manuel
Rafael Angulo delegate OF the colonial
government at Washington to prepare a
commercial treaty according to instruc-
tions which he will receive from Senior
Montero and Senor Rodriguez colonial
secretaries of the treasury and commerce,
respectively.
1t has also been decided TO reserve the
posts of directors in the hospitals and the
asylums for persons of known non-parti-
sanship. providing they acknowledge the
new regime and return to the island.
Captain Sigsbee received dispatch from
Secretary Long tonight saying that the
wrecking vessel Right Arm has been or
dered from Key West to Havana with an
additional diver and further apparatus.
The bodies of twelve firemen have been
taken out from under the hatch leading
from the superstructure to the fire room.
None were recognized and all were neces-
sarly disme embered in course of rmoval.
On the Mangrove the sessions of the
court were held in the captains cabin aft
The officers were not in full dress, but in
the uniform used every day aboard ship.
The proceedings were very quiet, no one
but the witnesses and the shorthand re-
porter being admitted The arrangement
is that the stenographer shall write out
his notes day by day and the court will ad-
| journ from time to time to give him the
opportunity. was the case today. when
| the court visited the wreck again and
spent some time in additional inspection.
The pomp and circumstance of the tribu-
nal are not as much as an ordinary garri-
son courtmartial would show. but the high
character of its members and the evident
earnestness of their purpose TO find the
truth, if possible. give dignity to the court
of inquiry.
1t was the last day of the carnival and to-
night the city is gay as far as the Prado
and principal streets are concerned. But
the display is not SO great as in former
years.
An additional ten-inch casing charge was
found today exploded. A number of such
castings are believed to be inside the hull
but it is not known whether they exploded
or not.
The divers have recovered, in addition to
Captain Sigsbee's silverware, as already
cabled, some of his cutlery, his rifles and
a number of his books.
The wounded in the hospital are doing
better tonight.