Show 711 FIGHT Fort LIFE VIrale Mrgicl of if Men on tho MalooThy Were Full of COlin Cey West FIlL Feb 20 The hairbreadth hair-breadth escapes told hy the Maine urvlvors are almost miracles III who were between dk fouht for their liven like demons to reach deck The Bounded who could not get out met tlclr deaths bravely An the water rushed Into the ship tho cries of the wounded men could bo heard calling for aid In a few minutes their doom was sea led No searchlight was thrown on the terrible rcene It li I not known why but a gentleman In the city who was at Havana at the time says that fifteen minutes after tho explosion he was looking toward the wreck and malting for a searchlight to be thrown on the shlpbut none Appeared and the work of r urnoh to bo done In the dark Thomas Melville of Brooklyn unln jued was nil watch on the quarter dcek He felt a shock followed by an explosloll and was thrown eIght feet III he air find tort fet from the shll Inln the nler Ile Swam back 10 the Maine o nd climbed Aboard again lie then saved the lives ot men floating In the water Harry McCann of Drooklyn has a straineil back He wn thrown over tward by the shock from the quarterdeck quar-terdeck and Immediately swam back to the ship and attempted to get the whnleboat out with the help of MelVille Mel-Ville a comTnd litany or Ibo mn ot the quarterdeck who had lost their presence DC mind ivere thrown over hoad I by XlcCann and Melv Ille who af tewn succeeded III manning Ibo whlellOt which sank from the suction suc-tion 01 till ship going down They wo then rcued by the atl and were afterward after-ward eomrllmnlI hy the navigator and officers for bravery Mrtln Hlordan a wcllknown diver 01 Key Went who iterved on the Mlne was lav1 He has hen recoiled to Havana by Conalll allemI lee nnot Cant Slit gbee 10 eompll the Investigation Investi-gation and dive tinder the ship to RS eeI11I the true cause of the disaster which will be evidenced In the Investigation Investi-gation |