The news & observer., 1898-02-20
TO RAISE THE MAINE.
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/ disnatch was received to-day from
ADMIRAL Sicard at Key West last night
| 4neaking Of the assembling Of the court
of inquiry.
III. message was as follows:
Secretary of the Navy:
..Rache sailed from Key West for
Havana with the divers and stores for
the Maine The Iowa comes to Key
West on the l9th aud the Sampson
/ Court ef Inquiry on the Maine as
/ Sembles on the arrival here OF MariN
/ The Massachusetts aRd indiana are at
| Tortugas. Elfteen eft1eerS antl FORTY y~SevF0
men from the MaiRe have hee0 disyrS
| buted at Key MeSe Marine kE@SMt-
al and the Array barracks. Mere are
/ ftte. here on the 18th bN the AIangRNyC.
| | shall hold all at KEY West penetng the
| Court OF mQuiay, No one Of the twenty-
| one appreutiees that the Texas took
From New York city for the Maine waS
enc board that ship.
REM bS3hsIl LIST OH pksAn
| Ca>ta:n S4gsbee Gorwar,he>1 another
| ami reused list Of the injured aud the
dead 80 FAR ideatiied this mornmg Rs
follows;
( "I,nS hundred and twenty coftns eon'
tanning 120 dead bc1ies aow baF&d;
nine ready for burial tomorrow,
Following injured are ia hospitals st
Havana:
II, G. Hol2er. ordinary seaman; q,
w keehler. apprentice, FIRST class, john
Heffron. ordinary seaman; +, u, Cahitl,
lanJsman: james W. Allen, mess attena
anti Jereniah Shea. coal p3SSer: VIM.
NattiSon. ordinary seaman; 4. j, Wa
terS. landSnaR. Nj. V. Webber, hands
man: Thomas Mack. landSman
Following injured sent TO Key West
by NEangrOve. light house steamer, to'
day.
b. r. Wilbur. eoxswaln: ]. f. White.
Iandsman: ID. Cronin, landsman; John
Coffee, private marine; j. FL. Bloomer,
landsman: A. Y. HerGesS. gunners'
mate. third class: James Rowe. ships
cook: u. f. Pitcher. ordinary seaman;
VIM. McGuiness, private marine.
Following are all the bodies that have
been identified up 10 date:
j. II. Dierking. drummer: ]. 4. Gra-
ham. chief yoeman: W. H. Tinsmau.
landsman: j. f. Brown. sergeant ma.
rine: E. III. Nero. chief macbinist; III,
]. Keys, ordinary seaman: VIM. Cos
grove, fireman, second class; Joseph
Seery, fireman, first class: ]. III. R0.
berts. private, marine; y. J. Smith. APP
prentice, first class; A. V. Erickson,
seaman (died in hospital to-day; ]. ].
McManus. fireman, second class; +. II.
knieee. machinist. first class; Henry
Gross. landsman; G. f. Hassell, gunner's
mate. third class: VIM. J. Fewer, bot
swain's mate, second class; Gustav
nOim. boatswainis mate. second class;
| G.. +. w. Eiermann, gunner's mate, first
| ata CO. Esrn6 fanaI arlto
Jencks, gunner's mate. third class: +. G..
Phillips, apprentice. first class: \. T.
Mudd. seaman: r. J.. Jones' coal passer:
Samuel Lees, ordinary seaman; L. l.,
| Barry, coal passer; Anthony Conroy.
coal passer; Charles Curran. coxswain:
Patrick Hughes, fireman. first class:
VIM. Donoughy, ordinary seaman; Frank
| Sutton. fireman. second class: Daniel
| Price. fireman, first class: G. +. Just. ap-
prentice, first class; James Boyle, quar-
| ter master, first class: Joseph Scully.
boiler maker: A. b. HennekeS. gunner's
| mate. second class; Trubic Finch, APP
prentice, first class; w. S. Sellers.
apotfecary; A. ]. Holland. coxswain
| (died in hospital.)"
MORE WORDS OF CONDOLENCE.
Expressions of coincidence still con-
tinue to flow in at the State Department
from sympathetic foreign nations. No
table among them was one that came
| to land last evening from the Queen
Regent of Spain, as follows:
Madrid, February IS, 1898.
president Mckinley, Washington. ID. C.
Her Majesty the Queen has just sent
one OF the gentlemen of the royal house
hold to express through me to your Ex-
cellency her profound sorrow and sym
| pathy in the sad accident which has be.
| fallen the United States steamer Maine
at Havana"
The contract for the work of saving
portions Of the Maine, and if possible
| raising her, was not closed to-day, all
| though representatives of the wrecking
concerns were in conference with Navy
Department officials throughout the day.
| Captain Lemly, who will frame the CON
tract, said that progress had been made
toward understanding the general plan
| of operation, but u final agreement had
not been reached.
| He also instructed the Admiral to
press forward as rapidly as possible the
work of a survey upon the Names hull
and to have the Court of Inquiry to
| proceed to Havana as soon as possible.
| 1t is scarcely expected at the De-
/ partment that any information of value
as to the cause of the explosion will
/ be available until the court has begun
/ the formal inquiry. The divers now at
work in the wreck are understood to he
employed in securing dead bodies and in
the removal of ships papers and small
articles of value, so that it is unlikely
/ they would give any heed to the bottom
j of the hull, buried, as 1T probably is.
| deep in the mud.
| THE WRECKING COMPANIES.
Until today the Merritt and Chapman
! Wrecking Company and the Boston Tow
boat Company have been alone in the
field and the department understood
| they had combined their interests. This
would have insured the government the
| double facilities of these cxtep.siye
wreckers, and would have given them
the contract. But to-day the LMcken-
bach Wrecking Company of New York
| city entered upon a competition for the
work. and before the day closed it had
made bid. The other CONCERNS did