The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
GREAT FUNERAL
DEMONSTRATION
Appropriate Obsequies to
Be Held on Am eri-
can Soil.
Due Naval and Military Hon
Ors to Be Accorded the
Victims of the Maine.
Survivors of the Horror in Havana
Harbor to Act as Special
Guard OF Honor.
copyrighted, 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

Copyrighted 1898, by James Gordon Bennett.
KEY WEST, March There will be
another great funeral demonstration in
honor of the Names dead. This time
it will be on American soil at Key West
and will probably occur on Thursday.
The uncertainty as to the date is due
to the fact that it is not known just
when the coast survey vessel Bache VIII
arrive here with the bodies of the
Names victims which have been re-
ceiyed. The order went into effect yes
terday to transport to this country all
the dead received hereafter The Bache
will probably be at Dry Tortugas with
the rest of the wounded men from the
Havana hospital, and Captain For
svth. commanding the station at Key
West, does not expect her to reach mere
before Thursday morning. The details
of the funeral arrangements have been
placed in the hands of Captain Bow
man II. McCalla of the cruiser Marble
head.
As il is not vet known how many
bodies will be brought on the Bache
Commander McCalla has engaged all
the hearses available in this island and
in addition provision has been made for
a number of wagons, which are being
appropriately draped as improvised
hearSes.
The Names heroes are to be buried
here with full military and naval hon.
ors 7 learned from Captain Forsyth
that six or eight companies of blue
Jackets and probably two companies of
marines will be disembarked from the
fleet to act as a guard Of honor, and
two companies of artillery from the
Key West garrison will represent the
army. The survivors of the Maine,
officers and men, will walk on either
side of the hearses as special guards
of honor, and a representation from an
unusually large number OF naval OFF,
GERS.
This party will accompany the cor
tege either in carriages or on foot. The
usual funeral volley will be fired after
the interment on plats selected for the
purpose in Key West Cemetery.
1t is not believed here that there is
any truth whatever in a sensational re-
port published in New York this morn
ing that the Spanish authorities have
forbidden further work on the Maine
wreck until the report of the Naval
Court of Inquiry has been made known
TO the Spanish Government. 1 can
saw of my own knowledge that up to
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon work on
the Maine was progressing as usual
without the slightest sign of Spanish
interference.
Both Admiral Sicard and Captain
Forsyth laughed at the report when
called to their attention to-day, and
Captain Forsyth added that If it had
any truth whatever he would certain
ly have been notified by Captain SigS-
bee or Consul-Generai Lee.
The convalescents of the Maine now
in the Marine Hospital are doing we'll.
Two of them were doing SO well last
night, In fact, that they escaped the
vigilance of the doctors and nurses
and started out for look through Key
West streets. They were discovered
and taken under arrest to the marine
barracks, where, after being roundly
lectured and threatened a court-martial
if the offense is repeated. they were re-
turned to the hospital to sleep 1t off.