The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-23
A0SEhGE' Of THE NAMES OFFICERS
IS NOW SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED
Story onq Current Havana That They We're Ashore The Time
Of The Disaster Arose from Ruse Of Newspaper Core
spondnls TO Get Through the Spanish Guards

old hatileshin Maine has heen giyNn
f. her deep sea grave II Is high time
thst ons OF the minor mysteries of
hat flame swept night If disaster
aud death in Havana harhpr q
mystery that has given rise to much
misrepresentation and doubt
should be buried With Tho other teia
its % Tire gallant old craft
One 81 the mftiad tamora that
flew from mouth tp lneutb Within ~
hour after the Maine had heea done
70 death. . rpmer which teak on
seere Of taried forms as 10 ifs AZ
tails. and whita persisted III slsite IL
40 maaF denials Was 10 Sac effect
thsl a large proportion Of the bat
tipFhin's quota W Officers weTs
ashore al the tif4e 81 the explosion
making merry IN varfdas Havana re- |
SORTS The ohvious inference, OF
course Az inference Witch the
sneniards Az lessj ara not seek to
Discourage was that condition Of
ias discipline prevailed aboard fha
Maine and tha3 me explosion wal
PROBABLY IN some manner conse-
stbN3iA dtt3Helftl
This aanoyin9 report wss dien-
fed with official recognition by The B
hoard Of Spanish officers appointed :
by Captain General Biaaco t6 inves- IL
tieate tho cause Of She disaster {
Thus II obtained wide currency in IL
Spanish circles and even ia some .
Quarters Of The United states. dos g
plte fhe fact that both Rear Admir- q
o fthen Captatu} sigsbee. who conf h
Banded the Maine. and later the II
American court Of inquiry, over p'
watch Rear admiral Sampson then
eapfain} presided promptly Il
stamped The rumor as baseleee. az
Not Were Invention IN
But the report that large num- Oh
her Of the Names officers were %
ashore instead Of being al their co
posts Oh the fateful night was not a ID
mere cruel invention. II Is probable Of
thaf the apaniards who first gave #
currency believed II to be true. II
wss not true. but this is the true OF
story OF bow 1t came to be thought .
to be tr&e and why the spectre OF 2
liza maj<ess presence refused to be (e
w. ssis ha,e,
6 fairai slssoee mao pupllsiea h's per
soiAi MAI latiNe oi 'ne ue.alis u 'nae
i9i'e, q ing "iat ne iiau
In the calm of sultry tropical $
evening a group of American news I
paper correspondents sat in the cafe c
OF the Hotel Inglaterra on the night :
OF February Is, 1898 Most of them
~ ~ 20 - -, :.
~, 9 60. oaa M, 81 go ~,
~. - ~. raut5
IN annroaebirq intervention ann =
war :
suddenly tba air was rant Nv the :
r,ar and SHOCK Of terrific expIos-
ION Tba g1assas an tho marble ton 7
tab1e ratified with fine vibration. 9
racb man of the groun glanced al :
hie neiqbbor Conversation ceased ,
ae If ali had baer etricken dnmb
fo, IN an had come instinctivelv tba
same thought Before the reverbere-
ting echoes of the crash had sound
ed sullenlv from the hills hack Of +,
Havana every man moved nv COM
mon imnu,se had leaned 10 the
street and turned his face toward /
the barbor
There they saw a great flare Of |
incandescent shafts piercing the |
dark background of sky like the
entity from a riyen volcano. Against +
The flaming eanopv dark objects
wora siIbonettea oaring upward
.g - eie, and