The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-15
The Tug Right Arm Comes In from Havana
and the Maine.
EXPLOSION WAS FROM THE, OUTSIDE
This seems to BE the Opinion OF tho
Crew-Ghnstly Stories of Recovery
OF Bodtcs-Movemcnt of Troops
Tho brooklyn Arrives and An~
chors In Hampton Roads.

urClly night was tbs Merritt Wrccking
tug lt.gmi Arm, which had isaen down
H. Havana for Il couple OF weeks work
ing at the Maine wreck, her crew be-
ing imgaGcd chiefly in recovering thu
mm-lgEtd dad from the lsEittlcship's
twisted remains.
Captain McCiee r.pk his boat out Of
EG,VaEu Monday nftcruo-C:. being re-
| litwcd by the arrival Of The Merritt.
| which has begun on the work of reinov-
| Ing th,' wreck age. The Right Arm pro-
| coed d to Key West, where she cu,lcd,
l5uVinE thvrc Tuesday for Norfolk,
| which she reached wills rat incid':rst.
The captain is very rc,iccnt and as
| elise as Il clam. The m,,i ere likewise
silent on tn suhjs',,,' Of tHs Maia,e, but
| thc whcic crowd CT them talk very
aGrcc4bly Erhout Havana. ana every
| ching else except the wrS.ck. Upon this
SUBJ ct tiny have cvidt,-tly been in
| siructed. and IL lssrsor,1l 't-,erv,cw Civ
! i"lG away any information uf import
anCS. would dEt a man his job and
would lead 10 more serious results
Nevertheless the men icy" full Of thsI.r
thip thcrc, md what th-y saw al.al ey-
F,'"i c.ced, and il did no. require IL cork
ScHlw to pull out consid rablc general
information, some of 1t extremely sig
niilCant and graphic.
1t may irs stated without fear OF
contnslliCsiLrI THAI the crew is Dracti-
caly Of the opinion that the Mama
was destroyed from the outside by az.
sNplosF They say that one has but to
look mt the wreck to he convinced of
ms. Th:r debris Is all III -wn inward
instead of outward. and particular Sig
:"iicitn"@ they attach To the fact that
the Mah:'z's bow is blown upward al:.d
turned over ~ che midshlp deck.
Thy say it IS impossible 10 tell
whether or not the plates uphcavcd by
the tNpiosion u;rnc from under the for
wSEd magazine. but are certain that this
magazine is in;act. and Richard Bow
ma'-' the Righ Arms regular diver,
who returned with her exhibited YES
to-day an mn@Nplodsd rifle cartridge,
which he had obtained fl'm H.
oh account of the almost incXtricabls
tanglc into which the forward mart Of
the vessel has bscn twisted, III divars
h1d immense trouble in recovsrbrrr bod
les and graphic stories are told of
ShsStly struggles t.y thre. daep bel w,-rn
divers ana the mu.flatsl dead, ,.G bodies
TORN aSunder in ara effort 20 drag them
from the wreck
Diver Bowman. according 20 HE
| mates ala 2' great deal Of work l- re-
| coN3r:ng bodies. He recovered. also tv7
| of III" ships small arms rifles, which
| he brought with him.
IL Is STATED that the keel of thu Maine
IS now buried 's'!ght fest in the mud
m.l canHnt be gotten at
n, hiSht Arm craled ut the NorNLk
~ cS.erh dock Yesterday forenoon
- ,'r'iE l"r service again. though
~ ~ -" Us nave 'r5en received for her
, 20 n"' w "isht p:ohabsA that she will
| ,ri' ','N,.'"''. at least. not son:.
~ '"S D. -. Jones arrived Sund ~
sa,a rom ~ West towing thc
~ ''e'ln = Neil Shs' did not 8,
| 'n"' ''S expected.
! MOVEMENTS OF, TROOPS