The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-03-01
The Court of Inquiry 6Ontln-
u6S It's Investigation.
The Tug Right Arm viii SdIV6 Small
Portions of the Wrecked Maine.
Americans in Havana Treated With
Kindness by the Citiz rs.
Neither the Officers of the Court of Inquiry
Nor the Witnesses Will Give the Slight
est Indication of the Testimony or
the Conclusions Formed From 1t.

HAVANA, Feb 25.-The court of in
Quiry held it's usual sessions Thurs
day. Capt Sampson reports that
Chaplain Chadwick was examined as
to his personal experiences at the time
of the disaster to the Maine, and that
the testimony was taken of the captain
of a Spanish bark in the harbOr and
the SUPERINTENDENT of the West Indian
oil works, across the bay at Regla,
both of whom witnessed the explosion.
Mr.. Rolf, the British engineer of the
floating dock in the harbor, wrote a
letter to the court, but did not add
anything material to what was known.
At the afternoon session the divers
We're examined more fully than before.
Their testimony is taken from day to
day. The court expects now to finish
here Thursday and to sail on the Man
grove for Key West, where the other
officers and men will be examined.
The wrecking tug Right Arm did not
go north, as was expected, We'd
nesday She is now mOOred beside the
poop of the wreck and will salve the
smaller portions as far as possible in
advance of the arrival of other tugs
with better facilities for heavy work.
HAVANA, Feb. 25.-The coast survey
steamer, A. D. Bache, after many de-
LAYS, left for Dry Tortugas Thursday
afternoon with three wounded, all do
ing we'll Owing to the American
quarantine regulations, the wounded,
having been in hospitals here and eX-
posed to fever, must be taken to hOspi-
tails in the Tortugas for quarantine The
names of the wounded on the Bache
are:
John Hebron, of Freemanstown,
n. j.; Thos ]. Waters of Philadelphia,
and Jeremiah Shea, of Haverhill, Mass.
The other wounded were doing well
late Thursday night. Even Holzer,
though sorely wounded, is better, and
is making a gallant fight for life.
No bodies were recovered Thursday
from the wreck. Recent orders from
Capt. Sigsbee strictly forbid all Off
GERS of the Maine TO give out any in
formation except to those officially en-
powered to ask it. The order is gen
orally understood to apply to all Off
cial matters though some think it af-
fects only matters connected with the
disaster.
WASHINGTON, Feb 25.-Rumors OF
startling discoveries in the wreck OF
the Maine were less frequent but there
were enough of them still afOat Thurs
day to warrant Secretary Long in max
inc this statement to the newspaper
men as he left his office:
Summing up the situation, l should
say that the navy department knows
Thursday nothing more about the
cause of the disaster than it did five
minutes after the receipt of the first
dispatch from Capt. Sigsbee."
Capt Sigsbee's statement that the
divers have been down aft seven days
and forward four days, gave the navy
department the first information o.
the time that the divers had been il
the vicinity of the zone of explosion,
as he has termed it This zone is con
fined TO the forward part of the ship
and while the divers have been dowI
aft for the last week. their work for
ward in the vicinity of the large ma
gazine has been in progress only fou
days, which presumably began on Mon
day and included Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The Evenin:
Star has received the following cable
gram from Mr.. Charles NJ. Pepper, 1T
staff correspondent in Cuba:
At this writing divers are developin;
important results. From examination
OF the interior wreckage they have Sc
cured evidence which seems concluSiv
that the explosion came from under
meath the ship.
Some of the smaller magazines ma
have exploded. The main ten-inc
magazine did not explode. The condi
ton of the interior of the ship show
further probability of the wreck hay
ing been due to outside force.
The further the investigation pro
crosses the more untenable become
the theory which the Spanish govern
ment adduced to show Academia
cause. It is evident the Spanish caus
will be based on the claim that a fir
preceded the explosion.
WASHINGTON. Feb 26.-In view G
the widely published report that tn
harbor of Havana contains a system c
submarine mines, a statement arOun
which has conferred the chief publ
interest in connection with the disa:
ter to the battle ship Maine, Senior d
Bose. Spanish charge d'affairs a
Washington, Friday night made to
reporter the following statemen
which, coming from such authority
may be considered an official denial:
4 wish to state on my own offici;
knowledge that no mine exists insid
or outside of Havana harbor; nor
there any submarine defense of an
kind. The report is SO absolutely falls
and ridiculous that it could only hav
originated in the minds of those pc
sons an xiOus to incite theevi passion
of both nations for their own miserabl
ends / consider the very suggestio
OF such thing an insult to So Jain
The friends Of the victims of tn