The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-22

/ In execution Of the decision of the
President last evening to have 4 nation
III observance of mourning, the follow
ing order was today communicated by
telegraph from the War Department 10
commanding officers Of the Army:
appropriate honors TO the deceased
in the recent disaster TO the battleship
Maine. the President directs that flags
at all army headquarters. military posts
and on army buildings be displayed
from sunrise TO sunset at half mast
] until further orders.
(Signed.D SAMUEL BROCK.
"-Adjutant General
Secretary Long today directed that
dispatches be sent to the c~ommandants
of naval stations and the chief officers
Of United States vessels throughout the
world to display all flags at half mast
until further orders. as 4 mark of re-
Spect to the officers and men drowned
from the battlCship Maine.
Admiral Sicard telegraphed Secretary
Long from Key West this afternoon as
follows:
In the opinion of Lieutenant John
Hood. Of the Maine. who has just ar
rived from Havana, says that the Maine
can never again be utilized as a ship. lie
describes the whole forward body Of the
ship as completely collapsed where the
shock of explosion was heaviest. Pho
t0graphs Of the wreck will be sent 70
the Department today.
The State Department this afternoon
received the following dispatch from
Consul General Lee:
Havana. February Il.
"Assistant Secretary Day, Washing
ton:
NT,4 =, ,,;o, ofGoon- room
Jenkins in ward mess room at the time
of the explosion. Latter left before
an officer who was saved. Must have
gone the wrong way. Lights out imme-
diately and water rusing in. Merritt
got to hatch with Naval Cadet Boyd.
Ladder gone. Boyd climbed through and
tried to pull Merritt up, but latter let
90 his hands. fell back and was drowned.
Bodies Of these officers not yet found,
possibly in wreck. Sailors funeral to-
day at 3. Will be an immense process
SION
The following message was received
at the Navy Department at $50 p. M,
from Captain Sigsbee, at Havana:
Secretary Long, Washington:
General Blanco called on me person
ally at the hotel last night and also the
mayor of the city. They have requested
me TO permit CUe SONSTIll1lci. here u
give a public burial to the dead already
found in order that public sympathy may
be expressed thereby and Iu1
shown the dead. Ground for the burial
has been secured. 1t is assumed that
| am expected by the department to
bury the dead here. In fact would be
impracticable to transport remains to
the United States. Means and facilities
are lacking. | have accepted the offer
CT the authorities and there will be a
public funeral at ) o'clock to-day. All
here from the .raine Will go. also a dele
CATION from the Fern. Fifteen bodies
recovered during operations. Operations
prevented by rough weather.
There was unabated interest in both
ends of the capitol to-day, in the Maine
disaster, but expressions generally TAKE
the shape of inquiry for new light upon
rigid investigation.
The present disposition. especially
about the Senate. appears to be to allow
the matter to rest where it Is until more
light can be secured than at present.
The disaster to the Maine has aroused
a feeling among members of the House
in favor of extreme liberality in APP
preparations for the naval and military
establishments. the practical result OF
wA4ch is Likely to be the acceptance
by the House with little contest. of the
Senate amendments, increasing the ar-
preparations for Notifications about 81.
600 600. the authorization in the Naval
Appropriation bill o. two battleships in
stead of one. and possibly the authoriza-
ton of the entire dry docks SCENE recon-,
mcnded ~ the dry dock board appointed
by the Secretary of the Navy. The re
npln,nIIntjn of tho &nnratnrv Of tho
Navy was for only addition to the Navy
this year. a first class battleship, but the
loss of the Maine macs it likely thai
appropriations for two ships will be re-
ported by the Naval Committee. The
, subject has not yet bene considered by
the Naval Committee, but most of the
individual members of the committee
yesterday and to-day expressed them.
selves as i'll favor Of building Il ship tC
replace the Maine and also Of authori.
Zing the ship recommended by the Sec
rotary of the Navy.
a parliamentary complication has
. arisen in connection with the question
of including provision for dry dock:
{ in the Naval appropriation which keel
such provisions out of the bill in the
j, House. Two rulings of presiding officer:
in Committee of the hole during The
: consideration of Naval Appropriation
!, whole dry dock scheme, it is estimated
bills are against the incorporation 0,
appropriations for dry docks. The
would cost in the neighborhood Of So,
100000.
1T is probable that the families of tn,
! victims Of the Maine disaster will be
cared for by the government as were IL
+. survivors of those who We're lost in TIL,
!, samoan hurricane several years agc
/, when ~tifty-faur American officers ant
: sailors We're lost from the Nipsic. Van
dalia and Trenton, which were wrecked
! on that occasion. Representative Nc
Cuban. of New York. introduced a join
resolution appropriating $50, 900 for TIL,
! purpose III the House to-day.
; The resolution is as FLOWS:
: Resolved by the Senate and HOUSE
of Representatives, that the Secretar,
5 Of the Navy be, and he is hereby. direc
| ted to pay out of any money in th'
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