Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-12-08
MOVEMENT OF TIE TExAs.
Should Arrive In Hampton Roads Thi.
Evening Saturday.

The bodies OF the 160 victims of the
Maine disaster. which have peen buried
in The Ehristobal Colon cemetery at
Havana since February. 1895. will reach
here on the battleShip Texas about De
cember 20 and will be buried in the
Arlington National Cemetery on the
Virginia side Of the Potomac across
from Washington. three or four days
&ater. There is some talk Of having she
funeral, Which will be conducted with
mill ta1y7 honors, on Christmas Day, but
it is hardly probable that this will be
the case.
The 'battleship Texas Captain SigS-
bee. has started from Port Royal. S. -.
Tor Hampton ROadS and will reach hero
probably Saturday morning. After
cosaling she will return south proceed :
ing directly to Havana.
Secretary Long. Of the Navy Depart
unent, has just received a report fro Il
Captain Greene. ssOnrnandant Of the
Havana Naval Station, announcing that
he has executed contracts for the ex-
huiTation of the bodies OF the Names
dead, and that the bodies will be ready
TO be returned to the United States on
December Is.
1t had been feared that arrang garments
could rot be completed for at least a
month. and the Texas, known as the
sister ship OF the Maine and comma nd
ed by Ca.ptain Sigsbee. which had been
selected for the duty of bringing honlc
the collins, was ordered just before the
re.selrt Of the report to proceed from,
Port Royal to Hampton Roads, sailing
Immediately. The Texas is returning
north from a patriotic celebration al
Brunswick. Ga.
The battleship should reach Old Point
this eveninf or Saturday and the
W7ork OF coaiing the ship FOR her voyag,
VIII commence at once. The Texas will
sail from the Roads on Monday and
should reach Havana by the 14th or
18TH
Just one year and ten months after
the destruction in Havana ha.rbor OF
the fine ship then, then commanded BY
her present. tsaptain, the Texas Will
come ITO anchor in the same waters.
fCaptain Sigsbee will enter the far-
Dor for the first time since he innocent
~ brought the Maine to a moorage over
the fatal mines.
The work Of loading the collins of the
Names dead on the Texas will not
consume more than a day or two and
the battleship will probably start De
ceniber Is or Il on her trip to Ha mpton
Roads. with the Star SIpangled Banner
flying at haff-mast, signifying ordina-
or the ship is on a funeral mission. bu:
meaning in this instance, in time o.
peace, Remember the Maine"
How we'll the army and navy Of tn,
United States remembered the Maine
In WAR is now written history: it re-
rtpains for THE government to rememb.:
the Maine's dead and to give the tbravs
men who Went to their death in I1ava
ma harbor proper burial in the Nations
cerneter:- This will be done and the
nations expect to the dead seame.
will first be shown when the bodies
feSI5h Old Point Comfort. whence they
will he forwarded to Washington over
THE Chesapeake & Ohio railroad.
When the Texas reaches her destina
tion. a detachment of troops from For
Monroe will be On hand to escort the
funeral procession from the wharf &c
the railroad station. The funeral trair
will doubtless be draped in memory o.
Che bodies of the men 1T carries am
will 80 from: here straight through I.
Washington. The arrangements for thl
funeral have not been announced yet.