Divers Find Absolute Proof
Title
Divers Find Absolute Proof
Subject
The Forward Big Magazine of the Maine is Surely Unexploded, So Many Divers Testify, Secretary Sherman Says Indemnity Will Be Demanded -- The Administration Can Depend on All the Money Support Necessary.
Description
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York, Febuary 26. - A copyrighted cablegram to the Evening World from Sylvester Scovel, at Havana says:
"Divers working forward yesterday found absolute proof that the forward big magazine, which alone could have so damaged the ship, is surely unexploded. The sides and floors of this magazine are practically intact, and in such shape as is impossible had an explosion within occured. Many divers have so sworn to-day to the investigating board.
It is now believed by experts that a big torpedo or mine, aided by five hundred pounds of saluting powder in the reserve magazine, next to the big magazine, might have produced the actual results, bot has regards extent and direction found in the wreck.
Collapsed powder cases found about the magazine have hexagonal marks in the thin copper where the external pressure forced it into its contents of hexagonal powder.
New York, Febuary 26. - A copyrighted cablegram to the Evening World from Sylvester Scovel, at Havana says:
"Divers working forward yesterday found absolute proof that the forward big magazine, which alone could have so damaged the ship, is surely unexploded. The sides and floors of this magazine are practically intact, and in such shape as is impossible had an explosion within occured. Many divers have so sworn to-day to the investigating board.
It is now believed by experts that a big torpedo or mine, aided by five hundred pounds of saluting powder in the reserve magazine, next to the big magazine, might have produced the actual results, bot has regards extent and direction found in the wreck.
Collapsed powder cases found about the magazine have hexagonal marks in the thin copper where the external pressure forced it into its contents of hexagonal powder.
Creator
Sylvester Scovel
Source
The Morning Star
Publisher
The Weekly Star
Date
March 4, 1898
Type
Newspaper Article
Identifier
http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84026538/1898-03-04/ed-1/seq-1/
Original Format
Newspaper Article
Files
Collection
Citation
Sylvester Scovel, “Divers Find Absolute Proof,” The North Carolina Experience in the Spanish American War, accessed April 27, 2024, https://csilkenat.omeka.net/items/show/8.