The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-01

HAVANA, Feb. 28.-Little work was
done today by the divers from the tug
Right Arm. Capt. MCGEE, who is In
charge, seems to lack authority from
the wrecking people or others, and is
indisposed to work on his own judg-
ment, except in smaller details.
Capt. Sigsbee was on board the Unit
ed States lighthouse tender Fern until
3 o'clock this afternoon. He waited
for the Spanish divers, but they did
not appear.
Capt. Sigsbee thinks Spain has a
moral and international right to make
an Independent examination, and he
will give the Spanish divers such facil-
tiles as are possible.
Capt. Sigsbee hopes the survey
steamer Bache will return to the Tor
tugas tomorrow or the next day with
all the Names wounded left here and
he also hopes to send on the Bach here
after all the remains Of the dead re-
covered in a condition making it pos
sible to place them in collins.
The difficulty experienced in recov-
ering the bodies is not understood by
any but the divers. The latter yester-
day worked for three hours trying to
bring out one body intact, and one Of
the divers had bad fall, and several
got their air tubes tangled. Even then
they could not eXtricate the remains.
The principal efforts of the divers are
now directed toward clearing the up
per wreckage, smoke stacks, decks,
guns, matches, bridge, cranes and graf
ings. Then, if not before, all the dead
can be removed.
Pathetic Letters.
Capt Sigsbee continues to receive
letters in great numbers. All the
queries about the men who lost their
lives when the Maine was blown up are
answered as soon as possible, If there
is anything to be told.
One of the saddest letters received
by Capt. Sigsbee was from the brother
of a dead man. who wrote that when
death was claiming the victim his
friends at home were celebrating his
birthday and wishing him many happy
returns Of the day.
Senator Proctor had expected to pay
his personal respects to Capt Gen.
Blanco today in company with his trav-
cling companion, Col. Parker, and Con-
sui General Lee, but the captain gen.
eral has been unusually busy in getting
ready for the outgoing mails and has
fixed / o'clock tomorrow afternoon for
Senator Proctor's call.
Only one body has been recovered
today and it has not yet been identified,
tnOuSn ln6Te are hopes IndI 1t may
be later. With any others recovered
in time it will go with the wounded on
the Bache to the Dry Tortugas and Key
West. On her next trip north the
Bache will carry to Key West the first
company of wounded taken to the Dry
Tortugas.
The Spanish divers did not make their
examination today. Capt. Sigsbee eX-
pected them and probably will be adj
vised tonight as to when they will be-
gin their investigation. He was much
gratified at recovering today in good
condition his insignia of the Order of
the Red Eagle Prussian), and the gold
medal presented to him by the interna-
tional fisheries exhibition in London in
1858.
Capt. Sigsbee reports that the work
of divers today was slow and must
necessarily continue slow, owing to the
difficulty of making an impression upon
the mass of heavy debris. But they
are doing the best they can.
Late today Capt. MCGEE, of the tug
Right Arm, received orders from the