The San Francisco call., 1898-03-29

keel became horizontal at frame 23, walked aft about twenty-five feet and climbed owe: a hit
 of wreckage consisting of plates and bulkheads standing upright. These upper ends were rag ged and he crawled them to what he thought was part of boiler He could not give definite details, but he thought IL Was d boiler. A little after this he walked out to port clear of the ship in the mud. He was at this time forward of the break Of the shiL
 at frame Al. Returning about ten feet, ne founq @ wreckase. He examined this plate and tound it curved, as if 1t was part of the snip. IL pointed toward the starboard bow but It was so dark he could not distinguish the color All the edges of the plating were rough. The com
 partment seemed to be three and a half or four feet wide. Forward from this point Ge found a six-inch tank. It was intact It
 proved to be full tank. He found lot of
 at the cover which has holes in it, he found
 lot of mud. which was, brought up and
 was any quantity of similar mud in the same place The mud around the tanks was black
 Poweson was recalled on March 15, and ex-
 plained how he got the data for his sketches. ] work of the court He said he sent divers down at various points along the line of the
 bed Then he got in boat and located the points on the keel by lead line. In the wreck port crane, the smokestack and so forth and frCm these bases he would get the bearings
 keel and other points of the wreckage under water. Thus he was able to plat a map of the
 wreck both above and below water that was was
 mathematically correct By comparing th.s i with the original plans of the vessel it was
 possible to tell just how much and in what a 1 torted by the explosion without relying un-
 der water estimates by the divers
 | PRIVATE WILLIAM ANTHONY of the United States Marine Corps, whose coolness at the time of the explosion in reporting to Cap tain Sgsbee has become the theme of admra- tion throughout the world, the next wit
 ness.
 He testified that he had the first watch from to 12 clock on the night of the explosion. There drill that day, and 1t not
 necessary to open the magazines; In response l to questions. Private Anthony told his story:
 II was standing on the main deck just out | side the door the larboard side. l first
 noticed trembling and buckling of the decks and this prolonged roar-not a short report. ! but a prolonged roar. The awnings were
 spread and where the wing awning and the l quarterback awning should join there was a ! out and saw an immense sheet of flames, and | then I started toward the captain. Did you notice any perceptible list to the
 ship at the first shock?''
 ''At the first shock the ship instantly-that 1 dipped forward and to port just like that Qn- ! dicating it). It apparently broke in the middle l like that dndicating) and surged forward and | then over to port"
 Witness said the upshoot of the flames he l saw was well forward. Tt must have been 1 forward of the superstructure. l could see the l debris going up with it. do not know what i it was but saw f1rebrands going up, Was it the port starboard side! l Tt looked more to port than 1t did to star
 board It looked like it covered the whole l ship. It was an immense glare that illumined the whole heavens for the moment, much
 as I could see for the awnings"
 Did you any water with it T did not notice that, sir. I started for the 1 cabin at once.
 This closed the brave marines testimony CHAPLAIN JOHN CHADWICK was in his
 room board the night of the occurrence
 He said; T heard a loud report and every.
 out and there was a crashing sound of things falling. I rushed deck and got to the c.sr-
 bs bi oTeTs epop After trying to cheer up the men who crying out in the water for help l
 boat, which did. He rowed around the ship and picked up Then at the cap
 tain's instance we pulled for the ship City of
 Asked how many shocks he felt. witness said he remembered only one.
 SIGMUND Nj. ROTHSCHILD, one of the
 passengers the City Of Washington, was an l eye witness to the explosion. In company with the City of Washington on. the night of Feb ruary 15. as she sailed into Havana harbor,
 which lay astern and on the port side of the Maine. The vessels about hundred l yards apart. Rothschild said he was naturally interested in the Maine and had taken a po- siton where he couIu get a good look at her. Just he had taken his eyes off her to move his chair, there sound like cannon shot in the darkness. He immediately looked
 toward the Maine, He saw the forward end ] of the vessel rise, he thought, couple of feet l out of the water: An instant later came sec ond distinct explosion.
 This seemed to burst from the interior of the
 was instantly filled with flying debris The
 
 of the first detonation that had lifted her bow and quickly began to sink forward. Tn less
 wreck took fire and burned for two hours There were single reports that kept up
 tion was reached by the flames. but these were
 not to bA confused with the two big explosions i that had destroyed the Maine.
 l There was no doubt about the separation of l the first two explosions. interval of two l seconds at least separating them. The much | discussed section Of cement that fell on the | deck of the Washington two inches thick
 and weighed thirty pounds. The engineer of 1 the Washington showed it to me Pieces of
 iron stove in some of the Washingtons boats | and delayed the work of rescue. Other wreck
 age hurled clear over the Washington The boats of the Spanish warship Alfonso | XII he said. were prompt to go to the rescue,
 and were aided by the searchlights; i CHIEF GUNNER $ MATE OLSEN of the
 United States steamship Iowa told how he had ] been sent to Havana for the purpose of doing
 diving duty on the wreck lie had had. de | nine hours of total examination. Olsen told
 how on his first descent he went over the for | pression he said: T found the wreck all | blowed up. found a lot of grate bars down 1 there.''
 l Asked If he imagined himself looking for | ward he stated that he did. Going over the
 plates he struck into lot of 6-inch shells | with the slings them. Going to the right, witness stated he found lot of wreckage. It
 seemed to have been blown over the starboard | Olsen stated that he put his hands into the
 cracks and brought out several 6-pounder l shells
 
 | he went outside the ship, forward of the crane on the port side. He followed the bottom along and found that the ships side was blown out board and alongside the crane 1t could be i walked on.
 pletely' witness said. part of her bottom 1 plates are turned up. Then you follow the bot tom from there up and the plates are blown outboard At the top and underneath the bot l tom they are blown inboard and bent in. About three feet forward of that spot there was | piece of iron lying along the bulkhead The skin of the inside of the double bottoms is ! curled like sheet of paper inboard from stem to stern Amdships the same place there is an armor plate, one plate complete the top of the plate standing up. The plate Is in- cIined over the starboard completely. It stands l up with the thick part of the plate down. It 1 is inclined forward and over the starboard. l LOUIS WERTHEIMER. tobacco dealer of New York who passenger on the
 steamer City of Washington in Havana har- bor the night of the blowing up of the Maine, | the moment of the explosion was in the stern of the Washington and was looking directly at | the battleship when the explosion occurred.
 1T heard report" said Wertheimer. and | at an interval of anywhere from five to fifteen | seconds following the first report came a great | explosion In the burst of flame which fol- | lowed I clearly and plainly saw the vessel | rise in the water apparently about three yards ont then settle down before the light of the ! explosion went out. The whole thing
 so quickly that cannot hazard a guess as to