The herald., 1898-03-29

WAS it on the port or starboard sider'
1T looked more to port than 1t did u
starboard. 1t looked like 1t covered the
whole ship. 1t was an immense glare thai
Illuminated the whole heavens for the nos
ment, as much as could see for the avn
ngs."
Did you see any water with it?'
Il did not notice that, sir; started fo1
the cabin at once"
CHAPLAIN CHIDWICK
Chaplain John Chadwick, who was In his
room on board the night of the Occurrences,
said: II heard loud report and everything
became dark. The electric lights went oto
and there was crashing sound of things
falling. 1 rushed on deck and got to the
captains poop, where saw the captain
giving his orders. After trying to cheer up
the men who were crying out on the water
for help 1 was ordered by Lieut.. Jungen
to get into boat, which did; after pick
ing up one man at the captains instance
we pulled for the ship City of Washing
ton"
s. M. ROTHSCHILD
Sigmund NJ. Rothschild one of the pas.
sengers on the City of Washington, was
an eyewitness to the explosion. He cor
roborated his friend, Louis Wertheimers
who was aboard the City of Washington.
There was no doubt about two explosions
an interval of two seconds at least separat-
ing them. The much-discussed section Of
cement that fell on the deck of the City OF
Washington was two inches thick and
weighed 80 pounds. The engineer of the
Washington showed it to him. Pieces OF
iron stove in some of the Washingtons
boats and delayed the work of rescue.
other Wreckage was hurled clear over the
Washington. .....,....
AN UNKNOWN WITNESS
A witness was introduced whose name
was suppressed by agreement between him
and the court. He had to talk through
an interpreter. This witness was crossing
from Havana to Peglas on a ferryboat
about 1880 o'clock on the morning of the 18th.
He was sitting near three Spanish officers,
two of the army and one of the navy, and
citizen. They were talking about the
Maine. One of the army officers said:
''That is neatly arranged"
The citizen asked If making explosions in
the bay would not endanger Havana. The
officer said no; 1t was arranged so that it
would simply explode. open the vessel, and
she would sink immediately. The other
man loosely exclaimed: "Oh, will take
plenty of beer on that occasion" Some one
came by and they suddenly stopped the
conversation. They had said it was a
shame she the Maine) should be In the
bay, and they would blow her up, anyway,
LIEUT.. CATLIN
Lieut.. A. w. Catlin, who was in charge Of
the marine guard, said that when the ship
went into Havana harbor two extra night
sentinels were put on, one in the forecastle.
and one in the poop, armed with. rides. j.,
They had special orders to challenge all
boats which approached the ship near
enough for challenge. There was picked
man on the port gangway. A corporars
guard inspected the ships light below
every half-hour, the patrol taking his place
while gone.
CAPT. CONVERSE
Capt. G. A. Converse of the navy. sum-
moned as a witness, testified that he had
made study Of natural effects of explo-
sives. Being shown blue print of the for
ward magazine shell Toom of the Maine
and asked If the one or more Of these
should explode or partially explode, would
it lift the forward part Of the ship partly
out of the water, he replied that he did not
think 1t would. -sg
When asked II a submarine mine explod-
ed under the keel of a ship and contained
enough explosive to completely destroy
that part, would the sllp be completely
| demolished, he replied that violent ex-
plosion would cut hole In the ship, blow
ing out that part of the ship in small fraGes
ments. Being shown sketches of the for
ward magazines and asked If their exnib-
sion or partial explosion would leave the
bottom of the Maine in the condition shown
in the sketches, he stated that the distor-
ton Of the keel of the Maine was too far
forward and too remote from the maga-
zines to have been caused by their explo-
sion.
do you think that necessarily there
must have been an underwater mine to
produce these explosions?'
indications are that an underwater ex-
plosion produced the conditions there" was
the reply, with the further statements re-
garding the impossibility, in his opinion, Of
an internal explosions causing the Names
wreck. sa
GUNNER MORGAN
Chief Gunner Morgan, who was In
charge of the divers, corroborated Smith
in almost every particular.
DIVER RUNDQUIsT
Gunner's Mate Carl Rundquist, one Of
the divers, said he went down in the after
part of the ten-inch magazine and found
lot of empty powder tanks-some of
them with pieces blown in all directions.
They did not look as If they had been ex-
ploded by charge inside. 1t looked as Il
a pressure from the outside had opened
them up. The ragged ends of the ship
were bent inward. The bottom of the ship
was all blown up.
| He found hole in the bottom of the
ship. 1t looked as If it was blown up from
| the outside, because no explosion from the
inside could make a hole like that The
pieces Of armor plates also showed that
| they were blown in from the outside by the
way they were bent. Rundquist testified
| to the progress of his exploration. He
went down March 18th on the port side and
| found the berth deck sloping aft to star
board. There was coal seven feet deep
| Just forward of the crane; some of 1t had
been blown out of the ship on that side.
He also found ten-inch tank and powder
bags, which he sent up. He also found q
bunch of wires, about fifty of them in 2
bunch.
| In the afternoon he went down in the
same place and followed the armor plate
| and found the break where the armor plaee
ended. Here he found string of heavy
wire, Is feet long. Asked as to the condi-
| tion of the armor, he replied: "The end