The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
THE NEWS FROM HAVANA
CAPTAIN SIGSBEE AND OTHER OFFICERS NOT ORDERED NORTH.

All But Lieutenant-C nt-Commander Wain-
 wright May be at Any Time, However
 Chaplain Chidwick Completes His Mor-
 tuary Report Which Shows e57 Men and
 Two Officers Perished in the Maine Dis-
 aster.
 Havana, March 22.-Up to the clos ing of the cable office tonight the of- ficers of the Maine in Havana had not received orders to go north. All but Lieutenant Commander Wainwright may be ordered away at any time. He has been placed officially in charge of the wrecking in progress under tha contract. Captain Sigsbee and the other officers were supposed to remain only while the court of inquiry was in session here, and they are confident they will be ordered away before April 15, after that date stringent quarantine laws against yellow fever will be en- forced more rigidly than ever on ac- count of the outbreak last year in New Orleans and elsewhere in the United States. The younger officers are anxious to get away to prepare for examinations. They feel badly handi- capped in this respect all the records having been lost in the Maine wreck Captain Sigsbee is not very well. He. is anxious to go north, but of course, says nothing on the subject, being willing to wait patiently for orders. Chaplain Chidwick has finished his mortuary report, which shows that 257 men and two officers perished in the disaster, and one died in the Spanish transport Colon, I'll bodies have been recovered from the wreck, of which 61 have been identified; 161 have been buried in Colon cemetery and eleven aty Key West. This is the official report made public, after careful correction for the first time. It is said that many more identifications will be established when the enlistment records are conn pared with the notes of marks on corpses. Tomorrow morning Bishop Manuel Santuendor Y Trutos of Hava- na, assisted by Captain Chidwick, will consecrate the central relief station in Estrella street.
 The death of Henry Williams, one of the diving force of the American tug Chief of the Merritt Wrecking compa- ny, which occurred last evening, was due, according to the American physi- clan who attended him, to chronic hemorrhage of the stomach. It was not unexpected. MT. Williams was i'll before he left the United States. The body will be sent to Key West. The central relief station in this city is feeding 12,0OO persons daily. It will l be formally opened tomorrow, all though partially in use already The | system is admirable and food is plen- tiful. There are 1,0S5 tons of supplies now on hand or af1oat. Advices from the country districts are satisfactory and show the same conditions as have been recently described.
 | La Discussionne to-day characterizes | the editorial of La Lucha, referring contemptuously to the charitable work of the Americans in the island, a syn- opsis of which has been cabled, and says that the editorial was inspired by hatred of the Cuban people, from whom La Lucha has derived large part of its income. The editor of La Lucha says La Discussionne knows that there are 300,000 victims of starvation and would not care if there were as many dead He is ignorant of the great num- her of supplies sent from the United States. La Lucha and La Discussionne are political opponents and their edi- | tors are personal enemies.