Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-02-25
y. Evidence to Prove That
:, Maine Disaster Was an
Act of Treachery.
|..,,oved by Many That the
| Younger Spanish Officers
Hatched the Plot.
"a only a Submarine Mine
could Produce Such Tre-
mendous Results.

a,vNA, via Key West, Feb. "a. -
|, stustion, which may be changed
,nv moment by fresh discoveries,
\ be summed up substantially as
lows
ME divers having discovered cases OF
mp hexagonal powder for the 10
n guns unexploded and believing,
h that others unexploded will be
upd in the lO.inch maga zine Oh the
uboard side forward, the conviction
laws that this magazine did not blow
Il this be so, and many have in
srd from the first that it is, the
rAer conviction is forced that the
rodOn which wrecked the Maine
rs from the outside on the port bow.
one thing seems certain, If the Maine
blown up by an outside agency,
lsgent was a mine and not a tor
H. as no torpedo known could have
Eiaced such tremendous results.
Believe Younger Officers Guilty.
he highest American officials here
knnfdent that General Blanco and
bother high Spanish officials had no
kvhdge, direct or indirect, of the
EsphOn or execution of a plot to
ap the Maine, if such a plot ex.
Y, but they believe the junior Span
oMcers, who, from the nature Of
sgs, are more conversapt with mod
. explosives than their elders and
HrorS, were at the bottom Of the
Astr, II there was any outside
ay 1t is pointed out that it would
be impossible to plant a mine of
saad dry gun cotton near where a
aagn war vessel was directed to an
%, such mine communicating with
"sN"'S uotVSiy Ou SuOIc.
First to Anchor There.
Ills regarded as an interesting point
line Maine, for the first time dur.
saer stay in the harbor, lay at the
Facular spot where she was at the
NC Of the catastrophe, and. it is said,
asA not officially verified, that the
lae was the first foreign war vessel
sae0 to this particular buoy since
aOubles in Cuba grew acute.
Az stories as to lax discipline on the
1as are without a shadow of truth.
ue contrary, Captain Sigsbee was
palned Of by some for the rigidity
ls rules and the strictness with
usa ne enforced them. Moreover,
aaine has been in commission for
aa and never had a serious accident
y anchored in this quiet harbor.
AZ american officer of rank sufficient
autie him to take command of q
,Sysauthorlty for the statement that
M syaulsn naval officer some time ago
70 the Washington state depart
~ map OF Havana harbor showing
|l,,. 4,lne mines. The Spanish resi-
N 'ueny , this statement and say that
n. C rhes exist only in imagination.
N, M aOans' on the other hand, claim
usfe are mine galleries under the
|,,,' 4eaaing from subterranean pas.
Is Anown to have existed for years
r. this port "AO ofo '"S''o
|has,sa 0.'i oianco, on the night of the
|tsoa, was sitting with General
|absn ~ the corridor of the palace.
|smnasa m ne heard the explosion he
|ltEs. rom his chair, exclaiming:
a,ss s' 'ney have put shell into the
sceai.e iv.ensorship is very strict, and,
a.cbss toa recent order all dis.
avail ~ ust 81 be submitted in Spanish
ApHls az English. This doubles the
eadrn,,oo. :. the correspondents and
asaie,PPiieess sPies delay. i The means Of com.
atasr n,;a;I Eu IN Havana, a large city, are
Ag sb;r. ruliuye, and the work of visit.
ks naIs, u ~ the harbor Is tedious. At
leutsn.ne. during the hours when
gesant Soionel Mendez, the cen sor,
@g Ens ;. there can always be found a
lsaians :! Si newspaper men anxiously
!!st nsttas s approval or disapproval of
lcal stam s ahd his affixing of the of.
lsy pssap Up as well as all proofs Of
litter ,osp papers published here, and
asa b .S ,0s newspapers in Spain that
losns ',, Leaves for Hey West.