The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23

dark, but 1T is hoped that the electric
lights will be of great assistance. The
bodies are much mutilated and some are
partially burned
The officers of the court of inquiry paid
another visit to the wreck to-day. Cant.
Sampson made visit to Capt. Gen. Blan-
co to-day. The Captain General and Ad-
mlral Manterola have expressed deep sym-
pathy and hoped nothing would interfere
with thorough investigation. They Of
Iered to give any help in their power.
1t is announced that 600 Spanish troops
arrived at Santiago de Cuba Saturday.
The military commander of Guanabaco
mas ordered the suspension of the public
IestlVltles as mark of respect to the
memory of the Maine's dead.
The investigation will continue for three
days.
George w. Koebler of Brooklyn, died to-
day at the Military Hospital. All the in
Jured show some Improvement
La Lucha, in an editorial to-day, COM
ments upon the "unfairness of the United
states IN making Capt. Sigsbee, the ad-
wiser and assistant of the court of inoui-
ry." The editorial is evidently based on
Incorrect information from the United
states, as naval officers say it is imposs-
Die under the rules constituting naval
courts of inquiry, that the captain COM
manding the ship destroyed should have
anything to do with the findings of the
court, being in one sense on trial himself.
1T is made Capt. Sigsbee's duty to give all
testimony as to the facts in his possession
Gunner Charles Morgan of the cruiser
New York, who is in charge of the divers.
will devote special attention to examin-
ing the ammunition in the fore part of the
Names hull. and to ascertaining the con-
dltlons of the plates magazines, and en-
glnes He is graduate in guunery and
rs regarded as entirely competent, as in
deed are all the divers under his direction.
He is under strict orders not to give out
anything on the subject of his investiga-
tions except to the officers of the Court of
Inquiry when called upon.
Capt Sigsbee received a dispatch from
Secretary Long tonight saying that the
wreclSing tug Right Arm had been ordered
from Key West to Havana with an addi-
tional diver and further apparatus.
The bodies of twelve men have been
taken out from under the hatch of the su-
perstructure of the fire room. None was
recognized and all were necessarily dis
membered in course of removal.
There was nothing picturesque or COM
prehensive in the scenes in or about the
light house tender Mangrove, in which the
court of inquiry sat to-day The sessions
WSiC AlSA0 III NHG captain $ C1Dln
aft. The officers were not in
full dress, but in the uniform used
| every day aboardship. The proceedings
were very quiet, no one but the witnesses
and The shorthand reporter being admit
ted. The arrangement is that the stenog-
rapher shall write out his notes day by
day and the court will adjourn from time
to time to give him opportunity, as was
the case to-day when the court again Wis
tied the wreck and spent some time in. aCi-
ditional inspection.
The pomp and ceremony of the tribunal
are not as much as an ordinary garrison
court martial would show. but the high
| character of its members and the evident
! earnestness of their purpose to find the
! truth, if possible give dignity to the court
! of inquiry.