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) Clinch County News
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BATTLESHIP HUE BLOWN 18 PIECES.
Catastrophe Opoured Without Warning' and While
Most of the Ship’s Men Were Sleeping.
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iSpanish Boats and Havana Firemen Go to the Rescue and Hive
All Assistance Possible—The Catastrophe Creates
Great Excitement Throughout the Country.
The United Stat battleship Maine
was blown up at 8:40 o’clock Tuesday
night, in Havana harbor and totally
‘
As yet the cause of the explosion is
nut apparent.
According to a report to the nirvy
department by Captain Bigsbee ”, those
, n to . be saved Officers, 24,
‘ ) " u are:
.- uninjnred, 18 wounded,
crew, now on
boaid A ard,line steamer, in city lios-
Vn* ? m ' i'H'vi. »» Taras known,
Air others want down on board or near
the Marne Total lost or missing, 253.
rhe explosion occurred under the
^nartw*,, well forward. The
tfc ***‘ ,{$' r wholly sub-
merged ami iirdwa purl of her stern
I he explosion,**Inch shook the city
,fiom one end to another, created the
tuldest excitement. All the electric
lights were put out by the shock, hire
engines rushed madiv from one dive- •
“ion to another, and no one knew for
from which direction the
plosion came.
Some of the crew who were able t °
support themselves by swimming
Saved by the boats.
The disaster is remarkable in
only two officers lost their lives and
these were of junior grades.
were Lieutenant Freil Mb Jenkins and
Assistant Engineer Darw in 15.
See.,,.Moment of f:x„l.olon.
» ‘he surviving crew and officers
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HOMERYILUE. 0A.* FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1898
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
Officials of the Navy Departmeut De¬
cline to Discuss Catastrophe.
I Secretary of the Navy Long received
J j Captain minutes Sigabee’s before the dispatch Associated but Press a few
dispatches i'i;om Havana were handed
,
He received the nows with apparent ,
calm, and bis first act was to comply
xvitli Captain Bigshee’s request that
j assistance be sent from Key West.
i )} p immediately wired Captain For-
j „ ythc , at Key West, to proceed with
, hp „ avtt l tender Fern to Havana har-
| bor
Secretary Long then sent for Cap-
f a j n Dickens, ami the two discussed
j Captain Tlie disaster Sigsbee’s brief the greatest telegram. which
i is
: has befallen the Arm ricau navy sinc e
! ^ le disaster at Apia many years ago.
j While neither the secretary uor Cap-
: tain Dickens are inclined to discuss
j the probable cause of the accident,
several suggestions were ventured
i upon.
j Later the secretary sent another tel-
' i-graui to K* v \V. do acting that tlm
I tender Mangrove also be sent to Ha-
vaua.
! n Vest ijjrnt ion Or<iuf* tl.
j diute Secretary steps Long make 1ms investigation, taken imrno-
: to an
Late M’ednesday afternoon he tele-
graphed to Admiral Bicard at Key
! West to appoint a board of naval offi-
,, er « to proceed at once to Havana,
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MISS FRANCES WILLARD DEAD.
I'ra.iil. nt of the W. C. T. 1. Purne* An.
Suddenly In New York.
l Miss Frances E, Willard, president
t f the Woman’s Christian Temper ance
vUnion, died shortly after midnight
▼riday night at the Hotel Empire in
New York city. <
Mies Willard has been ill for about
three weeks with profound anemia,
which was- the direct cause of her.
•death.
Frances Elizabeth Willard w as born
in Churehville, N. Y., September 28,
1S39. She was graduated at North¬
western Female college, Evanston
111., in 1859, became professor of nat A
i.ia! science there in 18t>2 and
years she spent in foreign travel, giv-
ing a part of the time to study in Paris
and contributing to periodicals. In
1871-74 she was professor of esthetics
in -Northwestern universite Mi and dean
of the women’s college, ieve she de-
veloped her system of self-government,
which had been adopted by other ed¬
ucators.
Miss Willard left her profession in
1874 to identify herself with the Wo¬
man's Christian Temperance Union,
serving as corresponding secretary of
the national organization until 1879,
and since that date as president. As
secretary she organized the home pro¬
tection movement and. sent an appeal
from nearly 200,000 persons to the
legislature of Illinois asking for the
temperance ballot for women,
the death t>f her brother, Oliver A.
Willard, she succeeded him as editor
of The (Chicago Evening Post.
1 u 1886 she accepted the leadership
of the White Cross movement in her
own unions which had beeu establish¬
ed through her intluence in twelve
states for .the protection of w omen.
In 1888 she was made president of
the American branch of tho Internal
tiona! Council of Women and of the
World’s Christian Temperance Union,
she i had i , founded .. , , „ five years , „
und She was repeatedly re-elected.
l*i sides many pamphlets and centri-
butnms to magazines am the press
Miss M illard has published several
volumes relating to temperance and
other reforms.
ANOTHER DISASTER AT HE A.
i SENATOR MASON DEMANDS AN IM-
I MEDIATE INVESTIGATION.
j -8 SENSATIONAL DEBATE ENSUES.
Much Warm Talk Indulged In Ilepiibli-
cans K«*ply to Their Colleague
From Illinois.
A Washington special sars: In the
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^solution Maine disaster for an providing investigation for private of the
a
j-Mc. committee to make an investigation.
Hale asked that the matter ho not
pushed.
- Mr. Mason, in reply, said that it
was evident that facts in regard to
Cuba were being concealed from the
people of the country and from con-
gross.
Mr. Mason said that Bho policy of
the government was delay, and noth¬
ing was flopping the murder of people
in Cuba.
The DeLome letter had not stopped
the murders. The Maine disaster had
not stopped them. It was time for tho
■•ivenato to act. Mr. Mason said he did
not want the facts regarding the Maine
locked up iu the executive depart¬
ments.
Mr. Mason said we had waited while
the diplomats have deceived us. They
had sat at our table and misrepresent¬
ed the situation. Mr. Mason said that,
while the diplomats delayed 250 of
our brave seamen were lying in the
harbor at Havana.
Mr. Mason said the American peo-
pie were tired of investigating behind
; d oor n, that w itl, 250 seamen ly-
> ,\, g at bottom of Havana harbor
thp 1( <)f the Unite(1 Htatos want .
kuow whethe , sh « WIls blown up
j, y he r enemies or from spontaneous
■ombustiou. Mr. Mason said that if
1 T esiilt was of found an accident that the the disaster people was would the
,
yte better satisfied if a committee
SPANISH CRUISER AT NEW YORK.
Extraordinary Precaution* Taken By Offi¬
cial* For Her Protection.
The Spanish armored cruiser Viscaya
is in New York waters on a “friendly
visit.” She dropped her big anchors
live miles south of Saudy Hook light¬
house at 5:30 p. in., Friday, after a
thirteen day yoyage from the Canary
islands.
When her officers and men learned
the startling news of the disaster to
the American battleship Maine in
Havana harbor and of the downfall of
former Minister DeLome, they broke
into a wild uproar of talk.
r or u time all discipline on the great
ship seemed to vanish to the winds.
Men rushed below to tell their com-
lades in the lower decks.
Bear Admiral Mnnce has given final
Dougherty, who will have charge of
the patrol tugs,six in number,to guard
levSv ' nng ‘‘ y ‘ n
Each boat is to have on board, while
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” “ e 0 ftlCel ', ,f mann « S > ft
onudsn an and , four . policemen of the
While on duty the boa i t s will u patrol ii
he waters carefully in the vicinity of
the visiting Spaniard and no boat or
person will bo allowed to approach the
Viscaya without the sanction of the
commanding othcer ol that vessel.
At night i is intended to keep the
N iscaya bnlhantly illuminated with
eleetnc .girts and the watch boats
will he also well lighted sir that there
can be no possible means of approach-
lug the vessel without detection.
ALL FAVOR GOOD ROADS.
People of Alalmiiia Have Been Spurred
t'p liy Anni*ton Convention.
The good roads convention at An¬
niston, Ala., lias, at least, served one
good purpose. It has directed the at¬
tention of the people of Alabama to
fact that they are far behind the march
of progress iu the matter of good roads,
and it has net tlieih to talking about,
the best me MOkdv the
difficulhgfli
’'i- Btt that the
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NO. 18.
MANl RELIEVE THE MAINE EX¬
PLOSION WAS NO “ACCIDENT.”
NAVAL MEN EXPRESS OPINIONS.
Public Opinion Seems to He Crystaliiing
In the Belief That Wrecking of the
Warship Was By Design.
A Washington special of Wednesday
J
SUy8 ’ Jt r , ,11, ; ftus a Ueav . >' uideiijmty . or
war with bpain, for there seems now
no good reason to doubt that the ter-
rible tragedy that has east a gloom
ITt^he^ ,’, ° ^ Hp “'
, )e ltc t e Htrong eflbrts of those
in ‘^tWiiy to create a contrary im-
!’~e dM° hv^s'‘ "'T
grown until it has become a convio-
tiol) . The best thought iu th(> nft
department now indorses this idea,
nlul tho construction which experts iu
these affairs put upon Captain Sign-
bee’s cablegram seem:, to hear it out
f u Uy [
A1 of ill0 oftkial uttel . ftnces ) mve
been to the contrary. It has been
given out iu a semi-official way that
,„c president, believes the wreck has
(lup to 1K .cident, and the officials of
the navy department have been kept
j busy trying to put up a plausible
story on that line. At first the public
was inclined to take that view of it.
But since these first statements there
have been others, from the men whose
views are valued most at the navy
department, which have thrown a dif¬
ferent. light on the situation; and in
eonpeijnence of tho belief that some
Spaniard is responsible for the most
terrible disaster that has ever over¬
taken this navy, or any other in time
of peace, the feeling in Washington is
running high.
Nobody believes that the act was
committed by authority of the Spanish
government. But almost everybody
■now believes that the Maine was
sent to the bottom by some Spaniard
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