Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-14 | Page 2 | Engineers Doubtful

ENGINEERS DOUBTFUL Nevertheless nn un Attempt Will Ill Be De Made to Raise the Maine Washington May lIay 13 The state de do department department has begun negotiations with the government of Cuba to obtain per permission permission permission mission for raising the wreck x Df f the battleship Maine In recognizing the public DubUc sentiment which demanded that the Maine be raised the engineers are extremely doubtful of their ability to do any thing of ot the kind many of them be believing believing lieving that the hulk has gone to pieces and that the most that can be bedone bedone bedone done will be to recover the bones of some of the victims of or the explosion that lie in Havana harbor It Is quite certain that the appropriation appropriation appropriation of made by Congress for the purpose of raising the ship will not be sufficient but the army engineers will Wm at a t least make a begin beginning beginning beginning ning a