| Show AMERICAN oiricmj BOILING Sold to be C onln ht is Sbrattrinn Mine Ulrw IP the Al ANew A-New York Teb 19A copyrighted cablegram 10 the Evening World from Sylvester Scovel under today date tom Havana via Key West says The consensus of opinion of those who have studied the wreck closely Is I now that the explosion was caused byline a submarine mine The forward maGa line It Is I now generally supposed Is I Intact RIo the forward Ixlnch maga zilleThl This leaves only a few saluting charges and a few small caliber shells In the pilot house which could have possibly pos-sibly exploded aboard the ship At the same time the fearful damage dam-age la I too big for any but an extremely large torpedo If It were a torpedo the divers will find the torpedo fragments frag-ments but Ir It were a submarine mine no trace will be round All the American officers ae Inter In-ter nal y boiling There la I not one of them from Captain Slgsbee down who Is not fairly convinced a submarine mine did V The Spanish dallies are loudly clamoring clam-oring accident accident notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact Is I now known that the whole middle deck which was blown straight uP never had nn ounce or ship powder under It and that was whore the first name was seen |
