Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-21
NO DEFINITE KNOW EDGE RE
GARDING MAINE EXPLOSION.
GROUND FOR SUSPICION
Government Settles Into a Condition
of Waiting What Officers of the
Unfortunate Vessel Believe Full
List of the Victims York
Worlds Account of the Disaster.

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attitude in respect to the terrible
marine disaster in the Havana harbOr
The officials are now resigned to
await the results of the inquiry by a
court named by the navy department.
All news yesterday came late in the
afternoon in the shape of Captain
Sigsbee's report on the authorization
of the funeral of his dead sailors and
Lees story of Merritt's and Jenkin'f
struggle for life in the dark null OF
the Maine. The officials Of the navy
department devoted the day to an eff
fort to correct the lists OF the living
and dead and to answering frantic tel
egraphic appeals from relatives of the
men on the battleship. The wounded
sailors in Havana hospitals, on tho
Spanish flagship and elsewhere when
in condition will be brought back to
Key West. In the meantime they will
be carefully looked after by Miss Clara
Barton. who has been given carte
blanche to buy everything necessary
for their comfort. The wounded who
are able to get across to Key west
will be cared for in the marine nos
pital there. AS to the Maine herself,
Notwithstanding the discouraglng re-
norts from Lieutenant Hood as to her
condition the navy department will
make an effort to raise her; while this
is required by every creditable sentl-
nent. the officials say that they are
bound to remove the hull from
small harbor in any case and 1t may
be as easy or easier to raise her as IL
would be to destroy the hull and ma
chinerv by use of divers and dyna-
mite. It is believed that this work
can best be done by private Wrecklng
corporations and negotiations are al
ready afoot for placing the contract,
at an estimated cost of 100000.
At the navy department a specific
denial was given to the report eman-
ating from Madrid that the torpedo
fiotilla was about TO leave Key west
for Cuba. 1t is stated that only TWO
torpedo boats, the Cushing and Erlcso
son. are at Key West, and these have
not been ordered and will not be or
dered, according to present plans, to
Cuba. It is strongly asserted that no
present purpose exists to send any
warship there.
Du Bose, Spanish minister in charge,
has received no instructions to go to
New York and stop the Spanish ship
Vizcaya from entering the port, ana
reports to this effect are discredited.
The air of suppressed excitement
which characterized the movement OF
the employees and visitors at the white
house Wednesday was not noticeable
yesterday. On the streets there was
noticeably less excitement than on
Wednesday, All flags throughout the
city including those ON the capitol and
department buildings are flying at
half mast and among others is con,
spicuous that of the "Cuba Libre"
which flies from the staff on the Hotel
Raleigh, the headquarters of the Gu
ban junta.
he navy department. has made up
from it's latest advices the following
list of dead, wounded and rescued from
the Maine. The names marked
doubtful are uncertain owing to
errors in Geographic transmission
which prevents their corresponding to
the muster roll of the department on
file in Washington. Following is a list
of the dead: Michael Malone, Thomas
Caine, B. Anguland, J. B. Lewis, M /.
Cochran, M. Lanahan, T. J. Quigley,
f. Bell, U. Kelley, c. Todoresco
Michael Griffin, Joseph Reilly, N. T.
Mudd, Joseph Seery, James P. Mason,
Daniel Leene, D. J. Tehaw, T. J..
Jones, O. Sheridan, j. Scully, J. F.
Walsh, Bernard Lynch, j. McNIanus,
Rudolph Falk, w. J. Horn, J. M.
League, Thomas Troy, c. Kronyak, J
w. Louden. G.. Lieber, t. Finch, H .
HERMAN, Walter Cameron, W. A.
Greer, c.. Murphy, c. P. Quinn, P. j.
Shea, Thomas M. Cole, Hugo Kruse,
John Morse, j. j. Lorenzen, Henry
Gross, Robert Wilson, Daniel Lewis
B. L. Marsdan, K. Christensen, H.
Brinkman, S. Nelson, William Lund,
J. C. Clark H. NJ. Carr, George
Thompson, M. F. Harris, William
Donoughy, Peter Ross, Charles Cur
ran, D. Dahlman, William Hambur-
ger, H. Dream, F. H. Kniese, John A.
Kay, John Porter, Robert Burkhardt,
Eldon P Nero, G. F. Stafford, A. J.
Fisher, w. A. Rieger, Abe Schroeder,
Henry s. Baum, L. M. Fleischman, M.
Stevenson, Gustav Holm, C. F. Has
sell, B. Fountain, William Robinson,
A. Anfindsen, William Montfort,
Frank Gardner, C.. o. White, G.. A.
Scott, Thomas Shea, Arthur Brofeldt,
Frank Sutton, Frank Andrews, j..
Graham, J. P. Aitken, John Powers,
Henry Auchenbeck, William Noble
William Coleman, H. A. Anderson,
William Hough, G.. Leopold, J. c..
Nelson, AL. John Warren, L. Sugusaki
Thomas J. Gardner, John A. Hallberg
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