Show FIFTEEN BODES FOUND These Are to be Given a Public Burial at Havana UNtt 1lI lr I ma anml at bledo I loilot I I at 3 ocock Till Afternoon Washington feb 17The following message was received at the navy department de-partment at 3a p in Iron Captain Blgsbee at Havana Secretary Long Washington Carl eral Blanco called on me personally at the hotel last night and also the mijor of tho city They have lequest e me to permit a public burial to the dead already found In order that public pub-lic sympathy may be expressed thereby there-by and due honor shown the dead Ground for the burial has been secured se-cured It Is assumed that I am expected ex-pected lly the department to bury the i dead here In fact I Would he 1m practicable to tianpport tire remains I to the United Mates Means and fa cilltlcn are lacking I have accepted the carter of the authorities and there Itl uuei II do r will bo erl public funeral at 3 clock toda 1 her Iron Man will ho also 1 a delegation I from the Tern Fit leeii bodies have been recovered during dur-ing operations Operations are pre vented by rough weather wtherSISDC LID nnionTS FURTHER Washington Feb 17The state department de-partment thli afternoon received the following dispatch from Consul Lee Javaria Ib IT Assistant Secretary Day V ashlng ton Merritt was In Junior offlcers mess room Jenkins wits II uard rom ms rom at the time of explosion The latter left before nn cancer who was saved He must have gone the wrong way The lights welt out Immediately and Water began rushing In Mrrlt got to the hatch with Kmal Cadet Hold and fount the ladder gone lloyd climbed through and tried to pull Mer ritt up but the latter let go fel back and a drowned The bodies ot these officers notyet found Possibly they are In the wreck The matters funeral Is I held hero to stay at 3 Three will be an immense precession Lt |