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V, : : . 1 lh-lt H I II III II I w 1 till I I II 1 II 1 II II I M1 illy 4 t II 1! II II LAST EDITION, 4:00 A. M. RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1898. VOL. I- No. 67 i Dr. Pendleton Was Told By Spaniards That They Had Submarine Mines Enough Under the Maine to in Commander Sigsbee Declines to Make a Statement and Cautioned Surviving Men Against Doing So. Two investigations Ordered to Be Made at Once AH the News Obtainable Anent the Disaster Up to 4 O'clock This .Morning Funeral of the Dead Seamen Occurs This Afternoon, While all Flags In the Harbor are Flying at Half-Mast. u i ;t .1 1 i.) Tii" Morning Post. Vurk. V- l. 17. -4 a. m. The N'.-v. .-v. v.iik '.rll in its first edition of this iMnniin puMis! - s a special from , its Washington t on f . pondent stating that I'aj't. Sissboo hai sent a despatch t . e .u v- t rr c0,rir,w'Plosion and w&s slightly wounded in the to Secretary, of the Navy Long, saying;: . m Jt . that tit- (Siesht'f). was positive the ex pltsi..n. wlii. h u ivrk-,1. t he battleship 'Main'."" was i,.it a- iut-ntal but re- tjut st. d ! tari L"nir-'not to make th- stat.-nu-nt public that the news be siippns.l X.-w V F.-l . 17. Dr. C. E. Pen i hr-re by the steam t'roni Key , West, in Havana he heard t violence to the a Spaniard heatedly rf. J'ist arnv ' ..-.!llp;1s.t tiia! while f.a I; "n-.uuh submarein mines I th." 'Maine'- to blow i" h- U whenever we : is a conservative. He at :i; pn tmice to the hreats 1 ' : - i !!" the catastrojme on h.-rc. ("'S 1 RiTMSTANCES. K.. Th fact of the i v i n u was petvible to all the s "ii as they reached the :' "sc who will talk declare ' v. hi. h was torn in the must therefore have "!H - iaiiitti men were caught : ik. an.i were either killed ' Ji'icied helpless. burned to death, the fire "t that the reseu rers were near them. . 'i,,r' after he got aboard of of Washing n," cautioned to make na statements to though Lieut. Commaiiuer tol l r.en. Lee that in his - U.x- dynamo on board, known as ,f '' ri ireuit. t aused the explosion. n.osson aroused the whole city. A :. ta, hmt-nt ut police were sent lUr front at once. The chief (-'--i "n? of the first to put off 11 :' ' "Main" was then run UP to Captain Sigsbae, ymg orders in a cool man k i him what had caused Capt. Sigsbee replied: state mv pinion, or to TO KEY WEST. The United States ! left this afternoon rh -ill , . t ' uii mc cui Ivors i were in a condition 1 serlously injured re left behind, be s away. a k V 1 i in SIGSBEE'S HEROIC CONDUCT Capt. Sigrsbee did not leave the ship till every man had been taken off. He i remained in a boat in the nighborhood as ftne- aS a n v honp remained of sav ing any of the men in the water. He was thrown from his bed by the ex- head. The first thing he did was to go on deck and order the flooding of a large quantity of gun-cotton. The order was promptly carried out, and it is certain ' no damage was done by this explosive. "Washington, Feb. 16. The following despatch was received this afternoon from Ca.pt. Sigsbee, of the "Maine:" "I advise the sending of a wrecking vessel at once. The "Maine" is sub merged, except debris. Mostly work for divers now. "Jenkins and Merritt are still miss ing. Those known to be saved, all of ficers, 24; uninjured crew, IS; wounded, now on board the Ward Line steamer, in city hospitals arid the Mascotte Ho tel, 59. So far as known, all the others went down. "The total lost or missing numbers 253. With several exceptions, no offi cer nor man has more than a part of a suit of clothes, and that is wet with harbor water. . "Will send all wounded men to the hospital yi Havana this afternoon. "The officers saved are uninjured. Damage was in the compartments of the crew. Washington Feb. 16. The "Maine" disaster was the sole topic of conversa tion in the hall of the House of Rep resentatives prior to the opening of the session today. t . In his prayer, Chaplain Couden re ferred briefly to the event. He said: "O, Thou who hast shaped and guided the destiny of our' nation through all the vicissitudes of the past and made it great, help us to emulate all that was truly noble and patriotic in our fore fathers, remembering that righteous ness exalteth a nation while! sin is a reproach to any people.. "That we maintain the dignity of our past, make us zealous in every good work, and watchful, knowing that vigi lance is the price of liberty. "Comfort, we pray Thee, inj Thine own way, the relatives and friends of those who were killed and wdiihded in .that terrible disaster to the T (varship "Maine." SPECIAL J 17 DO E APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE. Havana. Feb. 17. t a. m. lhe "Ai- phonso XII" placed a special feuard all night around the battleship tb recover the bodies of the American sailors The Spanish warships are flying their ftags at half-mast. j The Autonomist Cabinet held a spe- cial council, presided over by Blanco, wherein it was resolved that the Pres- ident of the Cabinet, GalvezJ and the Secretary General, Congostb, should t -.J.,i, call on Lien, iee io express jijinx:, and to cable President McKinley their deep regret. THE FUNERAL TOD.fT. solved to participate in the funerals to- w day, and to call on Gen. Lee and de mand from him the payment of the expenses of the funeral, and. expenses of caring for the wounded. , . The military newspaper, "Diario del Ejercito," is published today in black borders. Blanco will assist at? the funeral.. " Only 18 bodies have been -recovered." They are at the morgue. Some of them" are badly mangled. Others are burned. The bodies which are supposed' to--be on board will hardly be -found, on ac count of the utter destruction of the battleship. A special judge has been appointed to investigate the cause of the disaster. STATEMENT LIEUT. -COMMANDER WAIN WRIGHT. Havana, Feb. 17. Lieut. -Commander Wainwright was in his room when the explosion occurred. He speaks in the highest terms of the coolness with which Capt. Sigsbee and the other officers faced the terrible sit uation. No sooner had two or three of the officers apeared on deck, than the order was given to lower the boats. Four of them were immediately lowered, and three were filled with men, but the fourth boat was swamped before it could be utilized. When the explosion occurred, Lieut. Blandin had charge of the deck. It is said that the men who carried out the order to flood the gun cotton failed to return and the brave men un doubtedly lost their lives in the per formance of their hazardous duty. Several of the officers were down be low together when the explosion oc curred, and they thought at once that the hip was doomed. By the time they reached the deck they saw that the "Maine" was sinking. A large number of the crew were in their Quarters, and they were not able to get out, but went down with the ship which sank, bow first, about 2,000 feet from Fort A tares. Capt. Sigsbee, in all his comments has been very careful not to ac cuse any one; of causing the explosion. All he will say is, that a careful in vestigation will be made, and that will p rot ably determine whether interior or exterior causes produced disaster. STILL A MYSTERY. Ne York, Feb, 17. I a, m. The fol lowing was received from Havana at 2 a. nil. this (Thursday) morning: "The caue of the disaster still remains a mystery. The exact number of the kill ed is 251. There were 254 persons aboard." THIS LOOKSlLIKElBUSINESS. The Texas and Nashville Ordered t Sail at ! Once. I By Telegraph The Morning Post. j Galveston, Texas, Feb. 16. The bat tleship "Texas" and the cruiser "Nash ville" received orders tonight to sail from Galveston immediately. Their destination is not learned. It Is be lieved they go either to the fleet off Dry Tortugas or direct to Havana. WHAT EYE WITNESSES SAY Of the Explosion and What Happened lir- med lately Thereafter. By Telegraph to The Morning Post. . Havana, Feb. 16. Witnesses of the explosion that destroyed the "Maine" say that at the moment of the concus sion a vast mass was seen to rise to a great height. In the sudden and blinding light, no one seems to have been able to discern the nature of the mass, or whether it rose from beside the battleship or inside it. I There are now reported 260 killed and r i 1 a wuunuea. I Immediately after the explosion small boats were seen hurrying to the spot irom an sides; they picked up 28 wounded men struggling in the water. Of these, 6 were on the point of sue Crumbing when pulled in. They were taken on board the "City of Washing ton" and cared for. Among these are: j GJJSTAVE G. DRESSLER, perma hently blinded. ? .ANDREW E. ERICKSON, badly wounded. t ANDERSON, severely wounded. , THOMPSON, badly wounded. j Not one of the wounded in the mil itary hospital has died up to this hour, ut the condition of several is pre carious. i me Mascotte win tonay take to Key "West some of the injured who are in a condition to be moved. American vessels are expected at any moment to arrived here, for the pur pose of rendering any assistance pos sible. . From the nature of the disaster and the testimony of the survivors, it. ap pears that the line of the greatest force Lot explosion was a little forward of amidships. . It is there that the worst damage was done. The chief officers were either well 'aft or ashore. Thus they escaped unhurt. V The seamen and marines, by reason of their position, were forced to bear the brunt of the disaster. HOW JENKINS AND MERRITT I DIED. I One of the junior officers should have been on duty on the forward deck, and It may have been thus that Lieut. Jenkins, who is missing, lost his life. ; It is also prooable that Engineer Merritt, another missing man, was be low on duty, and went down with the ship. Five of the crew immediately after the explosion ran to the ammuni tion storage room, with the idea that they might save that from explosion. I None of them have since been heard tf, and it is almost certain that they V?ientto the bottom while at their posts-doing their duty to the very last. , LATEST ESTIMATES OF THE DEAD Includes Lieut. Jenkins and Engineer Mer ritt and 251 Sailors. By Telegraph to The Morning Post. Washington, Feb. 16. Midnight According to the official news, two offi cers of the "Maine" (Lieut. F. W. Jen kins and Assistant Engineer Darwin Merritt) and 251 men are supposed to be dead. Fifty-nine of the enlisted men are wounded. Twenty-four officers and 18 enlisted men are uninjured. This afternoon all the survivors, except 9 officers, 1 ma rine, 1 gunner's mate and 25 seriously wounded enlisted men were sent to Key West by the Steamer '"Olivette." No details of the explosion are yet given in any of Capt. Sigsbee's des patches. He has asked for light-house tenders to render assistance in looking after the wreckage. Three tenders have been sent, with accompanying surgeons. Secretary Long has sent Capt. Sigs bee a message of. sympathy in behalf of President McKinley. Secretary Long has also telegraphed Capt. Sicard, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, to appoint a board of officers to thoroughly investigate the catastrophe. JENKINS AND MERRITT CER TAINLY DEAD. Washington, Feb. 16. This telegram was received from Capt. Sigsbee late tonight: "All the men whose names have not been telegraphed as saved are thought to be lost. "Have given up Jenkins and Merritt as lost. Bodies are still floating! ashore this afternoon." HOUSE ADOPTS A RESOLUTION Expressing Regret and Offering Condolence to Families of Dead Sailors. Washington, Feb. 16. Self repression was the - dominant characteristic of Congress .today. The persistency with which even the "Jingoes," of both houses, refrained from saying anything that would add to the excitement, was remarkable. - In the open session of the Senate no reference whatever was made to the event, although the disaster formed the sole topic of talk in the cloak rooms, on the floor and in the committee rooms. Just before the House adjourned it adopted the following resolution: "This House learned with profound sorrow of the great calamity which has caused the destruction of the battle- eViin 'rl I V. nr.r.i!!in(T 1,1 CSS Clf more than 250 lives, and the wounding of many others of the gallant defend ers of our flag; and the House express es Its sympathy for the Injured, and offers its sincere condolence to the fam ilies of those who have lost their lives in the service of the nation."' Mr. Hale, chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and the most pro nounced pro-Spanish man In the Sen ate, said: "There is no occasion for Congress to take this matter up. I feel confident the facts will show that it was an ac cident." Mr. Morgan, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, states that the destruction of the "Maine" shows the necessity of build ing more battleships immediately. GEN. LEE TELEGRAPHS That Profound Sorrow Is Evident at Hi vana on All Sides. By Telegraph to The Morning Post. Washington. Feb. 16. The following despatch was received from Consul General Lee, at Havana, at 9 o'clock tonight: "Profound sorrow is expressed by the Government and municipal authorities consuls of foreign nations, and organ ized bodies of all sorts, and the citizens generally. "Flags are at half mast on the Gov ernor-General's palace, on shipping In the harbor and the city. Business is suspended and the theatres are closed "The dead number about 260. Offi cers' quarters being Jn the rear, and the seamen's forward, where the ex plosion took placet accounts for the greater proportionate loss of sailors Funerals tomorrow at 3 p. m. "Officers Merritt and Jenkins are stil missing." SPAIN'S SYMPATHY. The Government Officially Expresses Re gret for the Accident. By Cable to The Morning Post. Madrid. Feb. 16. The following semi official note was.issued tonight: "The news of the disaster to the Maine has produced a most painful impres sion in Madrid. At first it was feared the catastrophe might be attributed to some rash act of Spaniards. Afterwards as the details were received, these fears were dissipated and transformed into feelings of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortune of the American battleship's officers and crew. "The Government has expressed to Minister Woodford 'its regret for the catastrophe, especially in view of the fact that it occurred in waters within Spain's jurisdiction. "The SpanisbJ JidmlraU-ln , lull dress uniform, has called upon Minister Woodford In behalf of the Minister of Marine and the cabinet. "The Government has telegraph to the authorities in Cuba to do every thing possible to relieve the distress of the wounded, and give the "Maine's" officers and men everything they re quire. pauncefotp: and blanco join By Telegraph to The Morning Post. Washington, Feb. 16. The new Span ish Minister and all the attaches of his legation, Ambassador Pauncefote, and other foreign, representatives, called at the State Department today to express regret. General Blanco cabled his sympathy. saying the explosion was probably caused by the "Maine's" boiler. ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS SYMPA THETIC. By Cable to The Morning Post. London. Feb. 17. The Morning news papers all publish sympathetic edi torials, dwelling upon the appalling condition of the "Maine" disaster. They think the horror of the circum stances executed those of the "Vic toria" disaster in the Mediterranean. The consensus of opinion is that It is desirable to adopt Capt. Sigsbee's advice, and suspend judgment. The Times praises the good feeling and the calmness of the American people. PADDY IS ALWAYS WITH US. Irish Nationalists Adept Resolutions In London Anent Maine Disaster. By C ble to The Morning Post. London, Feb. 16. At a crowded mass- meeting of Irishmen, held here tonight. to celebrate the events of 1798, the fol- owing resolution was adopted: "The large, representative meeting of Irish Nationalists, assembled In St. James Hall, London, has heard with the deepest grief of the disaster that has befallen the United States warship Maine," and begs the President to convey to the American nation its deep nd sincere sympathy. "The sorrows of the Americans will always appeal to iritm hearts. DE LOME DEPARTS He Regrets the Maine j'Actldent" But Re fused to Make a Statement. By Telegraph to The Morning Post. New York. Feb. 1C Ex-Minister De Lome sailed on the "Brittanic" at noon today for Spain, via London. He refused to discuss the "Maine" incident, but his friend, Lieut. SobraJ, when asked whether I Lome would make a statement .waving his arms, I "It is impossible! The Minister re grets the accident greatly." Continued on Page 5. , I DELAY III SPffl'S REPLY Expects to Get Rid of the De Lome Incident. BY NEGATIVE METHOD OF DISflVOVJlL The Cabinet Will hot Compliment D Lome, and' By the Omission of This Usual Rtfetence In Official Acceptance of Res ignation. Spain Expects to Satisfy th United States and End the Incident. By Cable to The Morning Post. London. Feb. 16. The Madrid corre spondent of the Times says: "In the official acceptance of Senor foupuy De Lome's resignation the usual complimentary phrase appreciative of his services will be omitted. In this manner Spain hopes to satisfy the United States and to end the ques tion." A special from Madrid says the pop ulace of that city is greatly enraged, owing to the belief that the Spanish Cabinet has apologized to the United States. The populace, the despatch adds, are bitterly opposed to such a course, are exceedingly hostile to the Government, and may make a demon stration. In conclusion, the despatch says: "The people prefer war to an apology, thinking that Spain will suffer the least thereby, as war would be exceed ingly disastrous to the large commerce of the United States. Madrid, Feb. 16. Kl Heraldo de Madrid, the organ of Senor Jose Canal ejas, announces that as a result of a private demand by Calderon Carlisle, counsellor of the Spanish Legation at Washington, acting as his (Canalejas) attorney, the State Department at Washington returned to him Senor Dupuy De Lome's intercepted letter yesterday. El Heraldo also formally denies the story published in a Havana newspaper that one of Senor Canalejas own em ployes abstracted the letter. Senor Capdepon, Minister of the In terior, has approved the project of & cable from the peninsula to Havana, which has already been sanctioned by the Colonial Ministry. , The, Government has declined off em made to sell Spanish men-of-war on the ground that thterms are not accept able. THE FARCE AT PARIS. How It Is Proposed to "Ride Down" the Mob If One Assembles. By Cable to The Morning- Post.' Paris, Feb. 16. More evidence was given by experts in the Zola trial today to prove that the bordereau was In Esterhazy's handwriting. Gen. Pellleux harangued the Jury, arguing against the theory that Esterhazy had aught to do with the authorship of the fa mous document. He refused Labor is" demand for the production of the docu ments. In the meantime, the Government continues its preparations to deal with the riots. Paris has been kept doubly garrisoned, the entire police force be ing kept on call. Small mountains of gravel are piled on the principal streets for use in case the cavalry charges, and it is gravely announced that the mob will be ridden down without mercy if It assembles. A TRAGEDY NEAR SHELBY. Lovesick Swain Murders Ills Sweetheart and Then Kills Himself. pecial Despatch to The-Mornlngr Post. Charlotte, N. C. Feb. 16.-Ella WU iams, an attractU'e 16-year-old girl. as walking along the country road near Shelby, N. C, today, . accompa- n led by her brother, when Bid Griggs. he 17-year-old son of a neighbor, and schoolmate of Ella's, leaped out from behind the shrubbery and shot her th rough the heart. He fired two more shots Into her body and then blew out his own brains. He was madly In love with the girl, and when she refused to marry him he decided on the murder and suicide. RETRENCHMENT IN VIRGINIA. Gov. Tyler Has Uttle Faith In the Proposed Constitutional wonventioa. By Telegraph to The Morning Pott. Richmond, Va., Feb. 16. Oovernor Tyler, sharing the belief that the Legls- ture in the remaining limited time of the present sefsion. will accomplish nothing In the way of retrenchment. mm a mesage to me uenerai Awmoiy today suggesting the appointment of a non-partisan commission, of small size, to consider the whole question, ad In terim, and report to the next session, or to a special session. lie says he fears that the vote for a constitutional convention might not succeed, and that If it were called It might be controlled by an element that would use it for other purposes than the une intended. i i f . t l! Jl I i ' ' 1. ; i k -
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