THE MAINE
ATTEMPT TO RAISE HER. WHAT AN INVESTIGATOR THINKS. SHIP WAS BLOWN UP BY A SPANIARD. By Telegraph.~Pres3 Association.— Copyright. (Received November 4, 9. a.m.) NEW Y-ORK, 3rd November. At Ha-vana divers are ha.rd at work trying to raise the battleship Maine, sunk prior to the Spanish-American War. Colonel Brady, the investigator who reported to President M'Kinley after tho Spanish-Americam War, annouTiices that he believes the battleship was. blown tip by a Spanish electrician named Jose Zavaldo, -who accomplished his work from Moro Castle. Zavaldo •was afterwards executed, but no cause was assigned. fThe United States cruiser Maine was wrecked by an explosion in Ha.vaiia. harbour at 9.30 p.m. on 15th February, 1908. Two officers and 270 men were killed. A Court of Inquiry found that there was no evidence to fix the responsibility, but attributed the explosion to a mine underneath the vessel. A Spanish Commission considered tho explosion was from within. "|
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1910, Page 7
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