Show ULn 0 f TIIIOIAIMS VllOIiS Think Torpedo IT Vocal th AIln how Tw AgoUr Soo ill Idea Her Wt ilia I Feb ITJOP M Ivan ot New York a passengei on board the City of Wunhlngton the Whlnllun Ward Line steamer which was mooted near the Maine on Tuesday nlirht ut the time of the disaster In describing the catastrophe today said While UO mere conversing In tile r g robin 0 abOut twentY minutes past nine on Tu Ps oy night II lOUd report startled Ih comllY Thy rushed prt the port hol I an air un Immense flush hol vr up In the air Ih II trltle report Ubrlo ot 1 kind anti a large num be ot bd I we thrown upwards I wn nt first belleved that the Maine N a being fired upon but afterwards as i the City of Washington was struck by what turned out to Ire falling debris and careened It was thought she was I being lived upon A second explosion took pIM and following It we heard gronns aM er s ot Uclp Ulpul The beat ot the Cltj ot Wuhlnglon land thome of the Spanlh crulr AI tono XU wr hurriedly launched and ment to the rescue I went late one I LieJ bouts ot the Cit of Washing ton and tile seenes J witnessed ure wlneed heartrending beyond description ee Two ot the small bouts m1 hOlt on board I theatyof Svnshinagton bor City of Whlngun wem stave In by debils from the Maine The battle hip rank even with the natcr In about thre minuteg after the explosion The City ot Washington WAM converted Into a veritable hospital Many ot the res ce men wr brought on board al I moot nude anti the papengent gne them clothing etc The offleera ot the I City of Wahlngton lid all lu their power to make the rescued men com fortable 1 > About half an hour after the ploDon Consul Gentral nCr the Civil o 1 governor ot Uvn anal Captain chl eral lllnncos chief of staff came on Ir < heard Oen IA e remained with us all night The affair caused wih utmost excitement In IlavAlla Seven IIlem were picked up In the harbor yesterday und were Identified though terribly mAnlod The explosion occurreel forward ot he mldihlpa section of the Maine Aln Ijiter reports today from the wounded of the Maine show them to b doing rlik 1 ivitv 11 u < p In the I nl of Pat fi7 All IHcntle vtltwo skull was tl floor alprni alcull 110 I red it H fmJ jolcy wilt I r l al am lbcetf from the Maine 111 or re quartelvill with I And my of not beedo not the seamen others Ill have bee It Provided for at ru I Irm k N r x he at 1 Ibp O at k A distribution I Or rlothlng am I 1 filled 0 to them nnn o 1111 l Tile lCoorm CAR buy Al I they I rn WC act rh I n h V lay or cloth I I Ing gAraft II the fixtAnKlitnthe orneers I ot to 1111O QtP I are reticent They Are evi t h Sll b I j t but 1 muers tile oqt talk collet I mom on I 11 and they Including Ihe petty ora Inoludlnl cly oloVela of if Al l ost are odulupt trnn 1 Imous I In I InMiUnt I that tile explosion leg CIU1 ny a large I torpedo planted h ntetl before the Main 1 arrived nt Havana I The 1 1 naval Irn hori say ill at It ould be posMhlnr but tm I not likely Tile f 10holagp Orifice Maine was des ignated by a boy and the location of the buov was fixed by the harbor of 111 1 MIA ddd tlmt ally 0 t lhe Of nclils perfectly 1led i an 10 t the currents cur-rents and Hides might plant n torpedo at night sn that under ecrtnlM eomll lion o tlefc It would be under the forward for-ward part ot the Maine ns she swung to her moorings Once planted It Is further stated here such u torpedo could hp exploded from tho hOc or front n hot at any time fir d 1 upon bv 1 those In the secret All this however IR l regarded 1 na being Unlikely to occur and as being nlmost Impossible to occur oc-cur without the collusion of Spanish oinciais The Maine according to the reports received help was split open forward therefore I lit l difficult to 01 how such a result could be attained by torpedo from the outside I Is I pointed out that the explosion seems to have come from within although the keys of the mag nrlmn wcie In the hands o Captain Hlgabee ntA pon I When the keys I ot the mngnilne were delivered to Captain Blgsbce the tern M pPrature and II of Is 1 said the I forward that no high magdZlllls explusIvOll Was were stored there which would seem to make the mystery more dense Tears are exprexxcd heie that the divers I will not be able > to throw light on the cause of the illsntcr since the forward I for-ward part of the Maine Is I practically In atoms Tht the nor 11gazln fell I n filled v vlh high exII10lVes camily aretd hI conculon did not go UI Is I another motry and u mrcy ns well since fault this rangazine n caped plo d ctoailt no one on board could have i eq A thl rllotrh In I sent nn nevia of I Impnrtnn lien been twelved here from In or front the fleet |