Show AMAltDS IMNtll IN 01 > E I Ar The Occasion Was tile 10wla US 01 the i MuluoAutlAli ilctlln k New York Feb 23 Engineer Albert I i Al-bert Holdaworth and Assistant Engineer Engi-neer J Laldrow of the British ship Dllvedent which has Just arrived from I Havana say that on the night of the explosion they wtlh some others were 1i arbors They itere sitting at the end I of I pier at the mouth end of the harbor I I und about a hal mile from the Allier R Ican warship Next thI pler was a ferry ll A slit and the WilS o if the ferryboat friin the city Jay past the Maine i When the I explosion occurred a lot of I Spanish soldiers and sailors In a N tllrant nt tho had of tile 1Ir cleared out anti ran u I for their liver There Nas no Immediate blaze from the ex I plosion but thee were smoke and I oprk Two8 Tuo or tlro minute Palled before i Iaed the lame COUld lie I seen While they too1 matching lime breathless Span ards I hurried do nth pier bearing I fragments of the MIn payrolls I They sold they had I hld picked them upon I up-on 0 hill hak Inthecouutry from where I the Maine lay The Spaniards wanted i Ito I-to know what the writing In Pngllsh rtn rnIh meant and the engineers after looking i 1 at the papers told them through one or their parts who spoke Spanish I I The Spaniards fairly danced In glee I Ice I at the fate 0 the Maine The engln er said exclaiming Ah American 11 vs Atnrcano They bring dynamit 11 lere to blow up th Spaniards and they I get It themselves The Hinnlaicii got excited then and 1 suspecting that the engineers of the II I Jllvedene were Americana began to I nenaw them but Hollswoilh and LalJrow made It known that they weir I Englishmen unit the Spaniards cooled I When the ferry came I ties found t 1 hat she had passed the Maine just before be-fore the explo Ion anti a Sinnish army 4 officer aboard detain led that the cap I de-tain of the ferry boat should hlo I about and go to the rescue The ferry J I captains hatred of Americans was so I great that he refused The army ofee I 11 wait so Inppnd that there came i near I I hln n fight i 1 I Condol freno Colomh t I Colon Colombia Fb 3Th gov I I rnment has rent to the commander 01 1 he United Stales gunboat Newport I an onlclal message of condolence upon i I the loss of the Maine Tile Newpors commander has om I chilly acknowledged through the pre I I feet the message In behalf ot the U S government Flags on the shipping I the various con isulates and elsewhere I vitro at half mt yesterday It 4 Ia for u Jtnllnnj Cincinnati O Feb 3A special to q the Commercial Tribune from i Charleston ton IV Va says A deeed of trust hall been admitted Ito i I-to record In the Summers county court clerks office In favor of the Central I Cen-tral Trust company 0 New York to secure n loan of SCOOOOO to the Union t I Now River and Western Railroad i eotnl any It Is expected that the work I lOIan epct I of building the road will begin at once I It Is to run from Pclersburg Va down I the I new river to Illnton when a branch i will run to the headwaters of Coal i river and don that tram to 51 I Albans and to Charleston II I |