BUFFALO EVENING TIMES, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 1898. Battleship Maine Exploded The Cause in the Harbor of a Mystery. Havana. GOING TO BE INVESTIGATED Captain Sigsbee's Telegram Created Quite a Stir at Washington. Spaniards Rendered Assistance and Blanco Notified Lee by Telephone.
Secretary of the Navy Long Sent Doctors With Other Necessary Relief From Key West-The Electric Lights Were Extinguished At Havana and the Wildest Excitement Prevailed -Ship's Cook, James Rowe, Heard Three Bells and Some Time After Felt Himself Rolling Down Through Smoke--No Possibility of Getting at the Cause Until After a Thorough Investigation--Flames Followed the Explosion and the Battleship Burned to the Water's Edge. WASHINGTON, Feb. by explosion has created great Captain Sigsbee in his despatch that till further report" is being heeded. Sigsbee to Secretary Long. WASHINGTON, Feb.
Secretary of the Navy received the follow- tions were ventured upon. The Maine Described. ing telegram from Capt. Sigsbee: "Maine blown up in Havana Harbor, 9:40, and destroyed. Many wounded and doubtless more killed and drowned.
Wounded and others on board, Spanish man-of-ar and Ward Line steamer. I Send lighthouse tenders from Key West for crew and few pieces of equipment. Still above (water). No one had other clothes than those upon him. "Public opinion should be suspended further report.
All officers believed to be saved. Jenkins and Merritt not yet accounted for. Many Spanish officers, including representatives of Gen, Blanco now with me and express sympatny. SIGSBEE." Secretary Long' Acts at Once. WASHINGTON, Feb.
Long received Capt. Sigsbee's despatch but a minutes before the Associated Press despatches from Havana were handed to him. He received the news with apparent calm and his first act was to comply with Capt. Sigsbee's request that assistance de sent from Key West. Secretary Long then sent for Capt.
Dickens and the two discussed Capt. Sigsbee's brief telegram. No other naval officers were present and besides the Secretary and Capt. Dickens, the naval colony here is ignorant of this disaster, the greatest which has befallen the since the disaster at years ago. The Americans Secretary, is inclined to believe that most of the officers of the Maine were on shore at the time of the accident, as it was still early in the night.
While neither the Secretary or Capt. Dickens inclined to discuss the -particular cause of the accident, several sugges- WASHINGTON, D. Feb. Maine is a battleship of the second class and is regarded as one of the best ships in the new navy. She was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and is 318 feet long, 57 feet broad, 21 feet mean draught and 6,682 tons displacement.
She has two ten-inch vertical turrets and two military masts and her motive power is furnished by twin screw vertical triple expansion engines, having a maximum horse power of 9,293, capable of making a speed of 17.45 knots. She carries four ten-inch and six six-inch breech-loading guns in her main battery and seven six-pounders and eight one-pound rapid. fire guns and four gatlings in her secondary battery and four Whitehead torpedoes. The commander the Maine, Capt. Sigsbee, is a favorite in the Navy Department.
For four years he was chief of the Hydrographic Office a and by his brought the office up to a high standard, He was lucky to get so important a ship as the Maine, considering his actual rank, which is that of a Commander, but immediately he justifled the Department's Judgment in the selection by running his ship straight into a in New York harbor to avoid running down: a packed excursion boat. This was a display of quick judgment, nerve and pluck that pleased the Department so highly that the captain was sent a complimentary letter. FIRST EXPLOSION NEWS AS SENT OUT FROM HAVANA TO STARTLE THE WORLD. LAST NIGHT. HAVANA, Feb.
a quarter of 10 o'clock" this evening, a terrible explosion took place on board the UnitedStates cruiser Maine in Havana harbor. Many were killed or wounded. All the boats of the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII. are assisting. yet the cause of the explosion is not apparent.
The wounded sailors of the Maine are unable to explain it. It is believed that the cruiser is totally destroyed. The explosion shook the whole city. The widows were broken in all the houses. The correspondent of the Associated Press says he has conversed with several of the wounded sailors and WAS NOT A TORPEDO OR THE MAINE WOULD HAVE SUNK ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
Ship Was Afloat an Hour After the Explosion, Which Was in the Magazine. WASHINGTON, Feb. Navy Department was. the scene of intense excitement before 9 o'clock this morning but at the usual hour of opening the department, the officials had no news to add to that given in the last Associated Press despatches. The first news received this morning came from Key West and added little to the sum of information.
Forsyth to the Admiral. wired? the Navy Department that he Commandant Forsyth at Key, West, had been notified by Capt. Sigsbee of the Maine to inform Admiral Sicard, in command of the North Atlantic squadron, that the Maine had blown up and was destroyed. He requested that a lighthouse tender be sent over to Havana and added that many were killed and wounded. Command Forsyth's message further said that the lighthouse tender Mangrove left Key West at 3 o'clock this morning Havana and thatethe tug Fern would promptly follow A despatch from Commandant Forsvth said that he had sent the torpedo boat Ericsson, which was Key West, to Admiral Sicard, who is at the Dry Tortugas, with a message concerning the disaster to the Maine.
Captain Dickins' Opinion. Dickins, chief of the navigation bureau, expressed the opinion today that at the took place in the magazine explosion, Maine. He said that this was evident for the reason that the ship was afloat for an hour after the explosion. Had a torpedo been fired under the battleship, she would have sunk almost immediately and the fact that she had not done so was conclusive evidence the firing of the torpedo was not the cause of the disaster. COMMANDER SPEYERS Says Such an Explosion Could Not Have Occurred "in" the Ship.
NEW YORK, Feb. Speyers of the United States was aroused from his bed in the Navy Club and told of the Maine's destruction. For a few minhe was hardly able to speak. utes, God!" he exclaimed, "this is too terrible. I cannot understand how such an explosion occurred in the ship," he said with the accent on the "in." "The keys of a vessel's magazine are always kept in possession of a captain and when they captain leaves they are turned over to the man left in command.
having any further information express any opinion on the disaster." The London Press. LONDON, Feb. Globe this afternoon says: "It is impossible to refrain' from the suspicion that the explosion may have been caused by foul means. Although anchored, the Maine would have steam up in one of her boilers for the dynamos and auxiliary machinery. "If an infernal machine had been hidden in the coal thrown into the furnaces obvicusly there would have been an explosion of the boiler and, as a result, of a magazine.
That this terrible event should have occurred in the harbor of Havana yen renders a solution of the mystery of international importance." Continuing. the Globe says: "The last serious disaster of this nature occurring in peace time was in 1881, when H. M. S. Petrel blew up in the Straits of Magellan.
The verdict of the court was that it was caused by the formation of coal gas, another suggestion being that a substance called erotine, a siccative, stowed in the paint room, was responsible. Upon this occasion there were two distinct explosions and 143 out of the crew of 150 perished. "In the following year an explosion on board H. M. S.
Triumph killed three men. In this case the disaster was traced to the use of the erotine siccative." The papers here refer to the excitement and resentment at the Maine's dispatch to Havana. The newspapers also publish long descriptions of the Maine and of her officers. FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY Magazines Were Broken Open and Explosives Thrown Overboard; But Nothing Could Save Her. 3 NEW YORK, Fed.
special cable to the Evening Telegram from Havana says: "Vice Counsel Springer has just assured me that all the officers were saved except Jenkins and Merritt, both whom are missing. Mr. Springer says at least 800 were lost. "Capt. Sigsbee Was on deck when the explosion came.
It was in the bow of the vessel. A sentry stationed at the bow was unhurt. In fact he had seen nothing suspicious. "These are some of the survivors brought ashore: Lestus, private marine; Shea, Gartner, C. A.
Smith, Load, Durkee, Kane, McNair, Ruske, Bronon. "I have talked with some of the rescued officers and seamen. One officer, whose name I could not learn, said of the explosion: 'I was in my bunk. When I got on deck fire had started forward. There was a good strong breeze.
The call for all hands on deck was promptly obeyed and the men and officers were perfectly cool. All possible efforts were made to check the fire but without avail. 'The flames spread rapidly, and several explosions occurred. Magazines were burst open and explosives were thrown overboard. In half an hour it was apparent nothing could save the ship.
The first explosion wounded and disabied many, but how many it is impossible to say. Many were struggling in the water. I was crowded overboard and remember nothing more until reaching the Another Report from Sigsbee. WASHINGTON, Feb. latest cablegram from.
Capt. Sigsbee says 236 men and cfficers were lost. Not Spontaneous Combustion. KEY WEST, Feb. is stated here that the United States battleship Maine had hard coal on board and that, therefore, the theory that the disaster.
was caused by spontaneous con. bustion is not tenable. THE NEWS IN MADRID First Report Was Very Different from That Sent to the United States. MADRID, Feb. first news received here direct from Havana said the explosion of the Maine was caused by a fire and that' the warship, enveloped in flames, afterwards sank.
SPANIARDS THINK THAT UNCLE SAM MEANS TO FORCE A WAR WITH SPAIN. FEELING RUNS VERY HIGH AND THEY URGE THAT THEY FIRMLY STAND THEIR GROUND. DEFENSELESS COAST TOWNS Conld Not Withstand Their Attack and American Troops Landed on Spanish Soil Would Die. NEW YORK, Feb. despatch to the Herald from Madrid says: "The public feeling here against the United States is very highly strung, In the public mind the firm conviction is that the United States means to force a' war upon Spain and that the latter must absolutely stand her ground and that in Cuba the autonomists would side with Spain, fighting against the United States troops, and that if the Spaniards would encourage landing of American troops in the greatest number possible, now that the unhealthy season.
is coming on, it would kill them off like flies. Bombard Our Coast Towns. At the same time the ships of war could bombard the coast towns, which, with the exception of New York, are considered unprotected, the United States not having sufficient war ships to protect them. At the same time, also, great calculations are made on the widespread ruin which would fall upon business men in the United States, whereas the Bourse here would scarcely change, as is the case with the United States. It would merely be the first step toward the solution of the question which is slowly bleeding the resources of the country to death.
Such is the. representative idea of public Spanish feeling today. What Canalejas Says. Senor Canalejas declares that his recent visit to the United States and Cuba was neither directly nor indirectly official or secretly any connection with the Government and that during chew journey he did not communicate with Ministers, foreign or colonial, and sent but one letter to Senor Sagasta, his personal friend. REAR ADMIRAL BROWN Says the Explosion Was Not Caused by a Torpedo Unless It Was Sent from Shore.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. Admiral Brown, who was the highest officer in the navy at his retirement last year, was informed of the naval casualty in Havana harbor. The Admirl was extremely surprised to hear of the destruction of the Maine and because of the meager news was loath to venture any explanation of the affair, The Admiral was asked if it was possible it a torpedo lying in the harbor could have accidentally exploded under the ship. He did not think this could have been possible. If a torpedo caused the explosion it must have been sent from shore, for torpedos are not lying around loose in Havana harbor, where hundreds of ships are going in and out.
"I am sure no official had anything to do with it if a torpedo was responsible. Oh, said he, "there could have been no explosion of a torpedo by the dragging of the Maine's anchors or anything of that sort. Nor are there any submerged nines in the harbor. I don't recall any similar affair of this kind in the history of the United States navy." DEATH OF MRS. HOFHEINS.
Mrs. Mary Catharine, wife of George F. Hofheins, died yesterday. She was one of the most esteemed of GermanAmerican residents. She was the mother of Samuel Charles Emma and Martha Hofheins, Mrs.
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Frank E. Blackney of Angola. The funeral will be held from the family home, No. 410 Chicago Street tomorrow (Thursday) at 2 P. and from the First Evangelical Church at 2:30 o'clock.
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LOSS OF THE NEVADA GEORGE BECK AN EYE WITNESS TO THE FOUNDERING OF THE SHIP. Burst Into Flames Suddenly, and Went Down with All on Board: VICTORIA, B. Feb. steamer Islander has arrived, bringing further details of the reported loss of the steamer. Clara Nevada.
The news was conveyed to Juneau shortly before the Islander sailed by Capt. Latham of the steamer Coleman. He says the Clara Nevada foundered with all 'on board, opposite Seaward City, in Berners Bay, where she was running for shelter. George Beck, a resident of Seaward City, was en eye-witness of the disaster. He was standing on the beach, when he saw a small steamer battling with the winds.
Suddenly there was flash and the steamer burst into flames, foundering in a few seconds. She had on board 25 passengers and crew. Fifteen passengers, who went north on the Clara Nevada, returned to the Islander and say her boilers gave much trouble on the northward voyage and once the steamer took fire but wa's extinguished before serious damage done. They say the steamer was undoubtedly wrecked by the The boilers Rustler burstingineau has gone to look for the survivors. TUG FOUNDERED LIFE BOAT CAPSIZED AND TWO LIVES WERE LOST IN NEW YORK HARBOR.
NEW YORK, Feb. tug Frankie foundered in the lower bay today. It sank so quickly that Engineer Crocker could not leave the engine-room or Capt. Frank the pilothouse, and. both were drowned.
The Frankie had a schooner in tow. An outgoing tramp steamer crossed the bow of the Frankie, raising such a swash that the tug swamped. The ferryboat Castleton, from Staten Island, was at hand and launched a lifeboat, only to be. capsized. Then ferryboat's employees struggling the water and the tug's fireman, John O'Brien, and Deckhand Arnold Peterson, were taken out.
The water was so rough at the time that the ferry's passengers had to get on the seats to keep out of the water. One of the men drowned made a brave fight for life but finally the sight of the ferry's passengers. The dead are Nicholas Frank, Brooklyn, and Engineer Frank Crocker, who owned the tug, of New York. MEDINA, SNOWED IN Ingress or Egress Practically Impossible-Storm Still Raging. MEDINA, Feb.
weather with 15 inches of snow in the past 20 hours has almost entirely excluded the hamlets adjoining Medina from the rest of the world. A high wind during the storm, which continues as forcible as ever, has drifted the snow on many of the country roads, making them practically i.nbassible CITY HALL BREVITIES The certificate of incorporation of the with the County The Niagara Art Supply Compared was filed capital stock is $2,000 and the directors are William A. Jenkins, Blinn Yates, and D. D. Clark.
The Boore Manufacturing Company filed its annual report today. Its capital stock is $30,000 and its debts $600. County Treasurer Zittle received several bushels of checks in payment of County taxes today. They were all mailed yesterday and let the sender's in. on the last day which they could pay taxes without an added premium.
Today and for. the' rest of the month 1 per cent. will be added to the County taxes unpaid. IN TROUBLE AGAIN James F. Pettit, 32 years old, son of Dr.
Pettit, was arrested by Detective Sergeant Devine today on a charge cf grand larceny in the first degree. J. L. Moore of No. 626 Ellicott Square is complainant.
The sum in dispute is alleged to be $1,800. Wilson. the pawnbroker, went on Pettit's bail bond and his hearing wast set. down for Thursday. ALL INDICTED FOR MURDER.
NYACK, Feb. Rockland County grand jury yesterday indicted Rafaelo Disabio, his wife Maria Disabio, Pasqualand and Pasqualina Biancardo, who are charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary Kenney at Sloatsburg, N. on the night of November 1, 1987. All four are under arrest.
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Telephone Seneca 886. 15t21 Anitchkoff Palace, St. Petersburg, December 6, 1894. Six Officers: 200 seamen are Missing. Spanish man-of-war.
Four more were picked up by the same boat. They were Daniel Cronin, a landsman; Charles Berryman, boatswain's mate; Albert John, seaman, and Bloomer, a landsman. "My Folks Would Be Unensy." "One poor fellow whose face is injured: past all recognition is lying moaning in a cot in the hospital. 1 battleship Marne. asked him his name and he mumbled back through horribly swollen lips, 'My folks would be uneasy if I told "So far as I can learn now the explosion took place in the magazine used storage of ammunition for the torpedoes.
or The vessel with her bows wholly submerged and only part of her stern showing." The Excitement in Havana. The explosion, which shook the city from one to 'another, created the wildest excitement. All the electric lights were put out by the shock. Fire engines rushed madly from one direction to another, and no one knew for certain from which direction the explosion came. Blanco Telephoned Lee.
Consul-General Lee, who was at the Hotel Inglaterra, received a telephone message from Gen. Blanco telling him that the Maine had been blown up. Gen. Lee hastened to the Palace, where the Cabinet is now assembling. WHEN DE LOME HEARD IT He Said, Spaniard Did This," and Declared There Could Be No War.
NEW YORK, Feb. De Lome heard the. news of the disaster to the Maine at the Hotel St. Marc this morning. At first De Lome refused to credit the news, but when the truth dawned upon him, he said: "It is terrible.
I pray God the news has been exaggerated. You may be sure of one thing, however. No Spaniard did this." "Like myself, all Spaniards of importance entertain friendly feelings toward this country. There will be no war; there can be no war between America and Spain. "This appalling disaster forces me to a declaration that I love America as 1 do no other country than my own." LEE TO SECRETARY DAY Consul-General Confirms Stories Previously Sent by Capt.
Sigsbee and Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. Day received the following despatch from Gen. Lee: "The Maine blew up at 9:40. The explosion occurred well forward, under men's quarters, consequently many were lost.
It is believed. all officers were saved but Jenkins and Merritt are not accounted for. Cause of extain plosion. General yet to and be army investigated. and navy rendered every -assistance.
Sigsbee and most of his officers on board the steamer City of Washington. Others on Spanish gunboat and in the city. Am with Sigsbee, who has telegraphed Navy Department. "LEE." THE LIGHTHOUSE TENDER And the Steamer Fern Started This Morning for the Scene of the Wreek. KEY WEST, Feb.
lighthouse tender Mangrove sailed for Havana at 3 o'clock this morning, ing on board several doctors. The steamer Fern also sailed for Havana and the torpedo boat Ericsson left at midnight with despatches for the fleet. No details have been received regarding the disaster to the Maine and list of the killed and injured was unobtainable here. 000000000000000000000 WHAT Prof. D.
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HAVANA, -The wildest consternation prevails in Havana. The wharves are crowded with thousands of people. It is believed. the explosion occurred in a small powder magazine. At a quarte: of 11 o'clock what remains of the Maine is still burning.
Capt. Sigsbee. and the other officers have been saved. It is estimated that over 100 of the crew were killed, it is impossible as yet to give exact details. Admiral Manterola has ordered that boats of all kinds should go to the assistance of the Maine and her wounded.
The Havana firemen are giving aid, carefully to the wounded as brought on shore. unending It is a terrible sight. Gen. Solano, and the other generals have been ordered by Capt. Blanco to take steps to the Maine's crew in every way possible.
SIGSBEE NOT WOUNDED SIX OFFICERS AND OVER 200 OF THE CREW ARE REPORTED AMONG THE MISSING. HAVANA, Feb. report that Capt. Sigsbee was wounded is inaccurate. Capt.
Sigsbee with other officers, went in a small boat to the Ward line steamer City of Washington. Two officers and more than two hundred (200) of the crew are missing. Some of the crew who were able to support themselves by swimming, were saved by the boats. Six of the wounded crew and one of the officers have been taken to the milltary hospital by Gen. Blanco's orders.
JAMES ROWE'S STORY SHIP'S COOK HEARD THREE BELLS AND SOON AFTER WAS FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS OF SMOKE. NEW YORK, Feb. special to the Evening Telegram from Havana says, concerning the Maine disaster: James Rowe, ship's cook, was the least injured of any that were brought in while I was there. I asked him how it happened. "I don't know," he replied, speaking with difficulty.
"I turned in my hammock at 8 o'clock and heard three bells strike. I don't remember anything more until I felt myself turning over and orer and falling heavily upon the deck through a mass of smoke. I got on my feet and worked my way on deck. When I got there the superstructure deck was dipping under water, and I jumped overboard to keep from being drawn down in the suction. "I was picked up by a boat from 1-e LONDON, Feb.
Marquis of Salisbury and his second son, the Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, who, is rector of Bishops, Hatfield, had a narrow escape from, death yesterday evening as they were entering the 'gates of Hatfield. A gust of wind swung the heavy gate against the brougham in which they were riding, cutting the vehicle in two between the wheels. The horses proceeded with the front part of the brougham, 1 leaving the Marquis of Salisbury and his son entangled in the remaining debris. They received no injuries, however.
REPRESENTATIVE MAHANY INTENDS TO SEE AND KNOW WHO IT IS THAT HAS RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES. WASHINGTON, Feb. Military Committee of the House has decided to report adversely on a bill to allow the erection of a Catholic chapel on the West Point Military Reservation. Representative Mahany 'claims that this is an unjust discrimination and with a view to ascertaining the real sentiment of the committee, he today introduced the following bill: "That the Secretary of War be and is hereby directed to order removal at, once of all religious edifices of whatever character from the military reservations of the United States." Mira Mahany will push the consideration of this measure by the committee. TOLD BY THE POLICE The vacant house.
748 Auburn Avenue, was forced by thieves last night and a lot of tools stolen. The house is owned by A. G. Sherman of No. 303 Highland Avenue.
Patrolman E. Norton at 2 o'clock this morning discovered smoke issuing from the hallway of William Driscoll's saloon on Elk Street. He forced the front door and extinguished the fire with a few pails of water. Damage about $10. Cause fire unknown.
Charles Davis of No. 4 Monroe Street, was accused in Police Court by his wife, Augusta, No. 474 South Division Street, with neglecting to support her. She said the had given her $33 in ten months. was ordered to give a $300 bond.
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